Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:08:21 -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>

> mjw at press.jhu.edu 10/24/07 2:05 PM >>>
>> 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.

ARGH!  Not Scripsit, that was the TRS word processor, rather it was a
program called Samna ... which  *was* quite good.

mjw