Amos noted on Twitter in 2017 that it was one of the hardest consoles to find for his book. Despite somewhat successful endeavors in the business market such as the GRiDPad, It took nearly 20 years for a viable consumer tablet to appear on the market-and it wasn’t made by Microsoft.Ī shot of the Memorex VIS by Evan Amos, the famed Creative Commons console photographer who released a book of his photographs last year. ( Apple also took a stab, though its tablet never saw the light of day and it instead focused on its personal digital assistant, the Newton.) At the time, industry skepticism was high, for reasons that turned out to be warranted. The program, ultimately released in 1992 as an offshoot of Windows 3.1, was one of many operating systems that supported the pen, including Go Corp.’s PenPoint. Bill Gates, describing the appeal of Windows for Pen Computing, an operating system for early tablet based computers, in a 1991 marketing video for Windows. We’re making sure that it’s easy for people to work with Windows for Pen Computing.”
So a machine like this could be taken into a meeting, or out on a sales call, and used in a very natural way. “You use a pen, right here on the surface, and you can handwrite, just like you can on paper, and the computer recognizes it.
Who needs the Program Manager, anyway? - Ernie Tedium In that spirit, today’s Tedium is all about Windows 3.1 edge cases. But this weird, barely useful device (the MacBook Pro ain’t got nothing on this dongle game) got me thinking about the weird contexts of Windows, which led me to thinking about Windows 3.1, the first truly dominant version of the operating system. (An external WiFi dongle helped!) Basically, it’s kind of a challenge for myself, like the $10 Mac Mini experiment was.
GHOST 3.1 SOFTWARE INSTALL
This led me to install CloudReady, a variant of Chrome OS that actually runs OK on it, though it doesn’t support the internal WiFi, Bluetooth, brightness, sound and a few other things.
GHOST 3.1 SOFTWARE DRIVERS
The drivers were busted, so I had to try to rebuild them, and I found the device would slow to a crawl when tasked with anything, even loading the Start menu. I only paid a few dollars for the tablet, which can be bought here new for more than $100. Today in Tedium: Recently, while stumbling around a Goodwill, I got my hands on a cheap tablet designed to run Windows 10.
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