These two 20-year-old tablets are totally terrific!
I thought these vintage tablet PCs were going to suck...but they're actually good?! Sources: "Desperation Deal," Computerworld, September 10, 2001. HP Compaq restore CD image: https://archive.org/details/hp-compaq... "Xplore Technologies buys assets of Motion Computing after foreclosure," https://web.archive.org/web/201602160... "Zebra Technologies to Acquire Xplore Technologies," https://web.archive.org/web/201902261... Motion Computing LE1700 drivers: https://www.zebra.com/us/en/support-d... "A Tablet PC Special," HWM, December 2002. Transmeta Crusoe CPU photo: Transmeta Crusoe photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Troubles for Transmeta," PC Magazine, January 2, 2001. Here's a great period review of the LE1700: https://ruggedpcreview.com/3_slates_m... 00:00 - Introduction 01:57 - A very welcome upgrade 03:57 - Windows Vista saved me from itself 06:05 - Two years older but even more capable 07:40 - You'll never guess who actually made this 09:45 - You cheated and looked that up on Wikipedia, didn't you? 10:56 - I can't believe the handwriting recognition is this good 11:52 - Of course I played Quake 3 on it 13:03 - You could totally play games during lunch break on a job site 14:22 - Two very different tablets, but cool in their own ways --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: / thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on social media! @thisdoesnotcomp --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by Dan Mason (https://danmason.bandcamp.com) based on elements by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bo....

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