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To: jbn3 who wrote (48871)	6/24/1998 3:46:00 AM
From: Jack T. Pearson	Respond to of 176387

3, $200 Windows CE computers for China is a brilliant idea. I wonder if Acer is the only one who has thought of it. My first computer was a T-100 (?) Radio Shack pocket computer that was programmable and had a small amount of memory. BUT . . . I could write programs for it and get the results faster than I could from the IBM mainframe which only ran batch programs (1981). I inserted a "beep" in my program so I could record intermediate results (by pencil) every time it iterated my program (about two minutes). I used the results to convince the Air Force to fund a $6M study of a ballistic missile defense penetration system. A $200 Windows CE computer would run circles around what I had in 1981. Oh yeah, the T-100 cost around $200. Jack