Andre's Page

"I have one of these, they're tough. I once accidentally dropped mine down some carpeted stairs. No damage and it still works!"

"That microphone icon to the right of the screen looks suspiciously like Siri, but unfortunately you'd probably have to use the flea-sized cursor instead. I'm surprised they didn't at least use the Newton interface for this concept."

"Very cool. It's great that you will be putting this to daily use. In the "before" image it looks like there was an overlay around the function keys at some point. Any idea what it was?"

"Must be a McDonald's edition."

"For that price it should include concierge delivery, as originally intended."

"I wonder how it was supposed to be controlled...is the yellow thing a trackball? And the icon on the left edge looks like a printer...but what would you print? Faxes?"

"I wonder what a buyer could possibly do with this, other than use it as a side table. Even if it does work, you'd still need a Sun workstation and developer documentation to get it running. Definitely would be the ultimate RetroChallenge…"