JimBT200
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Jim is a 75 year old IT person with over 50 years of experience. Growing up with Doonesbury and then Dilbert, he followed xkcd, User Friendly, The Joy of Tech, Glasbergen and Bug Bash a decade ago. He began creating this strip in 2014 and started it up again in 2025. He welcomes interactions.

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Sometimes being there is enough

by JimBT200
5-13-14


	In August 1995 I placed a specially modified Toshiba T200CS Pen computing Tablet in Bill Gates' hands in California during the launches of Windows 95. It had a PCMCIA wireless card & Windows 95 Beta.


	It also ran Windows for Pen Computing 1.0. & was connected to a Xircom Receiver attached to a modem and dialed into the brand new MSN service. It was the same size as the iPad except 1.6 inches thick.


	It was 15 years before the iPad but Microsoft didn't make hardware and Toshiba didn't think the world wanted a tablet. But it was a thing of beauty to hold and to use. Sometimes being there is enough.

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