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Re: IBM Wearable PC!

From: Mark Willey <willey@keymaster.etla.net>
Date: Thu Sep 17 00:15:03 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables

fluoroscopic@hotmail.com wrote:
: In article
: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980914205740.7522A-100000@reg16.admin.rochester.edu>,  "R.
: Paul McCarty" <mccarty@reg16.admin.rochester.edu> wrote:

:>   http://www.ibm.com/News/ls/1998/09/jp_3.phtml
:>
:> about clip on computer that utilizes a tiny, headset-mounted display and
:> responds to voice command.  Uses 233 MHz chip, 64MB Ram, and 340MB HDD
:> (recall the sizes of the new IBM AA weight hard drive the microdrive?
:> 340/170MB).  They claim the whole computer is only 10.5 ozs.

: it also boasts a 1.5-2 hour battery life...  price to pay for the weight.

Neat...  toy.  If they were serious about that much performance at this
form factor, they should go StrongARM.

Mark

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