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It was an IBM prototype that was put together by their engineering staff in Armonk, NY in 1976.
Unfortunately, upon seeing it, IBM's marketing execs said:
"We manufacture mainframes, nobody needs a 'personal' computer."
Talk about missing the boat, they were not even within 1,000 miles of the water...
Regards,
John McPherson
Regards,
John McPherson
"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clark, inventor of the telecommunications satellite
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The Osborne I was the first commercially available portable computer (God I'm dating myself...)
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I do believe it is the Osbourne that ran CP/M was the first. However, Kaypro also made one about the same time frame. Could be a close competition
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Osborne I
Jordon
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What is the shortest word with two double letters?
Jordon
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inn is the first one that springs to mind, but there's probably some obscure word with just a pair of double letters.
Cheers,
Anthony.
Oh, hang on, I miss interpreted the question. Let's try Cooee!
-- modified at 2:51 Tuesday 15th August, 2006
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"all" or "ill" or "goo" or "moo" or "too" or "boo" or "add"
unless there is a two letter word of the same letters that I do not know of...??
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"TOOT" is one. "OTTO" is another. Otto is a variant of ATTAR, which is of Persian descent, meaning, "a fragrant essential oil (as from rose petals)."
John Ryle (pioneersilk@msn.com)
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poop, boob, peep, beeb, ...
do ya need more, mama?
-- modified at 12:13 Tuesday 15th August, 2006
sorry for misunderstanding your question ..
... but what is "cooee" ??
-- modified at 12:42 Tuesday 15th August, 2006
Just found in Google for "COOEE":
"The invention component of the Cooee Ecotrax product is a natural additive made of food-based products which allows bitumen to easily mix with cold water ..."
Is that really what you are looking for?
Uurrgg!
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wee - double-u, double-e
or maybe the question should be:
What is the shortest word with two *adjacent* double letters?
The first word that comes in mind is tattoo...
Can you find a shorter one?
/Just curious...
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"wee - double-u, double-e"
Cool! HaHa, the best idea of today!
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WOW guys! I would have never thought this question would get so much play.
The one I found was COOEE.
Jordon
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What is the only day of the week that has an anagram?
Jordon
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Nice work Matt.
Monday.
Jordon
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Who coined the term "Hypertext"?
Jordon
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Nelson in 1970 according to Wikepedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext
p.s. thankyou for the link about getting WINFX back its name. WinFX is a good name - renaming WinFx to Framework 3.0 is very confusing.
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I got my answer from Wikipedia too.
I was going to say 1970, because it is the date of an "early definition" as stated in the first line of the article.
But then I scrolled a bit down, and in the History section it reads: "Nelson coined the word "hypertext" in 1965 and helped Andries van Dam develop the Hypertext Editing System in 1968 at Brown University".
Not that the date was important... Just FYI
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It was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson who used it to describe the multimedia system he proposed called "Xanadu".
Jordon
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How many transistors does an Athlon 600 mhz CPU have?
Jordon
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22 million ?
-= Technomancer =-
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