Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:05:20 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Tripping down memory lane, tech wise
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> yahoo at omniphile.com 10/24/07 1:58 PM >>>
>At 10/24/2007 10:58 AM, you wrote:
>>"The Ugliest Products in Tech History"
>>
>><http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137988-page,1-
>c,electronics/article.html>
>
>While I agree with their choice of Windows and the Zune, I think the
>Furby and the Osborn were actually anything but ugly.  The Furby is
>cute, and the Osborn was cool for its time....though my Kaypro 4/84
>was much better designed (metal case, and a 9" green monitor, with
>the keyboard on a coiled cable so you could detach it).

I still have - and more of a museum piece - a TI Professional Portable:

<http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=472>

Color monitor, which was way better than anything IBM had.

For a word processor it ran Scripsit, which was actually quite good.

mjw