23/6 Mobile PC
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23/6 Mobile PC
Fujitsu, Japan, 2005
Design Concept
The 23/6 Mobile PC accomodates our needs for always-on wireless connectivity, information access, processing power, entertainment, flexibility and mobility. The 23/6 Mobile PC is not meant as a ‘workhorse’ mobile device, such as a traditional laptop, it nevertheless handles standard professional applications comfortably, all in a footprint slightly bigger than a CD-case, with a 7” OLED screen and a 16mm pitch folding keyboard with integrated trackpad and it includes a standard DVD drive.
Somehow I think it’s nice to see this awesome design concept by Antenna is made for Fujitsu, cause Fujitsu Personal Systems once purchased Poqet PC, from two posts down (and this Fujitsu Personal Systems at a later time merged with the Fujitsu PC Corporation)
About Antenna
Antenna’s mission is to make the experience of technologically enhanced objects and environments more meaningful and exciting. ... Antenna’s user-centered design approach, incorporating rapid prototyping and user involvement, helps understand human behaviour, which is particularly important when designing the unfamiliar, elicited by new technology.
Don’t forget to check out the other awesome work by Antenna, like the many things they did for the City of New York and Bloomberg
BTW, I can’t link directly to Antenna’s products/prototypes/work (since it’s all in Flash), so you’ll have to go and find the stuff yourself (but it’s a nice trip…)
the end of the world, but not as we know it
...or probably, some of you will, cause it’s old… but I just found it in my bookmarks somewhere and think it’s a nice link for today…
click to go to endofworld.net
The Poqet PC
You’ll probably see the list of The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years just like I did… (and if you didn’t, it’s a nice read)
But… it’s the #50 that blew me away…
50. Poqet PC Model PQ-0164 (1990)
Years before the Pocket PC, there was the Poqet PC. About the size of a videotape, the Poqet was pricey ($2000), but it ran off-the-shelf applications and could go for weeks on two AA batteries. Highly praised during its brief life, the Poqet vanished from the market after its manufacturer was acquired by Fujitsu. As with seemingly every interesting computer of yore, it still has its devotees, including Bryan Mason, proprietor of the informative Poqet PC Web Site.
Geez… one of the first pocket-PC-alikes and in a form-factor that seems most ideal to me… a keyboard with a widescreen on top. Don’t get me wrong here… I know a 1989/1990-machine wasn’t capable of producing anything in widescreen like we know that today… it’s just the resemblance with what I think is ideal that struck me :-)
Why is it that the industry seems to forget how to make things? Next to this Poqet PC I only know a handful of examples of this form-factor… (I blogged about this before) (...and about forgetting the good things… don’t get me started on build-quality of, let’s say, a VAXstation compared to a nowadays budget-PC (and don’t even dare to call *that* a workstation…)) :-)
This fictitious Apple of which I hope it gets produced one day…
This Sony VAIO C1VN picturebook
And another one (which is nice compared to the Poqet PC here)... this Fujitsu Lifebook P1000
There will probably be a few more… but not that many I guess… and even though I have a 12” iBook, something smaller would be nice… :-)
more stuff... for a maccy christmas as well...
Right… somehow this has been quite a lucky week, in terms of getting my hands on the right hardware (imho of course)... :D
So, next to a closet full of Sun Ultra’s & monster-scsi-grunt on my desktop, I now have a kitchentable full of mac-goodies
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The iMac (with a post-it) I picked up yesterday afternoon. My good friend Folkert informed me this week if I was interested in a broken iMac… well, hell yeah! ;-) The Post-It on it reads (translated) “very broke! image is green + grey”. Well, the CRT most definitely is borked… but… it boots OS X just fine, so the logic in there is fine as far as I can see. Nijne has an old iMac which needs repair also and I’m pretty sure I can make one fine iMac out of both and I also begin to get some project-ideas what to do with the logic-board of an Imac alone… but more on that later.
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...and then… 2 quite rare eMates 300! I picked them up just an hour or two ago and I need at least one of them for a project of which I can’t be too specific at the moment (oeh, hush hush) but in a while I can… :-) And when I was looking for an eMate 300, I found a seller who had 2 of them and since my Mac Classic II is starting to act up lately, I’m gonna make a serial terminal out of that one, connected to the stuff in my closet.
I really hate it BTW that my Classic II is acting strange… I still love the machine and it really isn’t my style to have malfunctioning hardware around… The symptom is, it needs 2 hours or such to wake up, then it works fine. I think one of the capacitors is leaking or such, I’m not sure…
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...and a close-up of this beauty :D
...and totally unrelated… sometimes it helps to be able to fix someting…
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...like my washingmachine on Christmas Eve… hey! I needed some clean clothes… ;-)
stuff for a merry christmas...
Well… Nijne is getting drunk with her grandma... and I’m going to have fun with this christmas-present I gave myself :D
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two brand-spankingly-new 36GB Maxtor Atlas 15KII disks… (and a SCSI U320 controller I already had…)
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I’m busy transferring my Gentoo-install from the single 80GB IDE drive to this ultra-fast SCSI-RAID array… (and yes, I run them in a RAID0-stripe! two smaller versions of the fastest(more or less) drives available, in stripe… this is gonna rock!)
...and I got some results… :D
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/dev/hda3 & /dev/hda4 were my old root (/) and data (/data) filesystem
/dev/sda3 & /dev/sda4 are my new root(/) and data(/data) filesystem…
The speed of this RAID0-stripe array is roughly triple that of my old single 80GB 8MB cache IDE-disk :D:D:D
merry christmas and stuff...
so i’m off to spend my xmas getting drunk with my grandma…
y’all have fun now k?! :D
(i definitely will ;))
NeXT Fans Give Up the Ghost
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From one user group to another…
Few remember the NeXT Cube, and fewer ever used one. The machine was the first computer Jobs masterminded after his 1985 departure from Apple Computer; it was sexy and powerful but also expensive and proprietary, and in the four years NeXT made hardware, only about 50,000 Cubes sold.
The Bay Area NeXT Group, an important user group formed 15 years ago around Steve Jobs’ second great computer design, slipped into history in 2005.
multiple 600MHz SGI O2 transplant-operation
It’s been a while since I posted anything SGI-related, and I really didn’t suspect there was going to be news from SGI themselves… but there is news from the SGI hobbyists…
My dear friend Roberto updated me on the terrific news the upgrade on his O2 has been succesful. His transplant was one of seven of these transplants simultaneously over at the the SGI O2 to 600+ MHz CPU Upgrade Site
This needs a little explanation… Originally, the O2 came in versions of up to 400MHz… Only in 2003, there was a thread on the forums of nekochan.net by Chicago Joe of a succesful upgrade/transplant, making it a 600MHz O2! This was (and actually still is imho) an unheard of upgrade, especially when you consider it’s done by enthusiasts instead of the original company. But well… about the SGI hobbyists, Wired was already right a while ago ‘Mac users may form a cult, but the SGI community is the tech equivalent of the pre-Reformation Moravian church—unknown, tiny and years ahead of its time.’ :D
Anyways, back to the subject…
The whole process involves changing the CPU with one which never was meant to go into the O2 at all…
If you’re in for some hardware pr0n, check this out…
7 transplanted O2-CPU-boards… yummy :D
...and follow the whole process of this mega-transplant-operation over at the news-section of the the SGI O2 to 600+ MHz CPU Upgrade Site!
related:
Upgrading an O2 to 600MHz (and beyond!) (futuretech.blinkenlights.nl)
Xbox 360 launch, US vs. Japan
try to spot the difference…
US:
Japan:
I think I found just another reason to love Japan (*^_^*)
How-to recognize Japanese fonts
Well, this is not your everyday how-to…
How-to recognize Japanese fonts (pingmag.jp)
click to go to pingmag.jp
...and if you really want to know…
this
is a Japanese font too… (and please install the necessary font-packages… browsing Asian pages becomes so much more fun that way!) ;-)
Aquafont (I’m not gonna tell you which one is the downloadlink…) (^_^)
