At Davos, the Johnny Appleseed of the digital era shares his ambition to propagate a $100 laptop in developing countries. The New York Times Photo: AMD's $185 computer
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Photo: AMD's $185 computer 
1Kb RAM, 4kb ROM, Television as a VDU and Cassette Tape deck for Storage. BASIC Language.
wheel!!! There is already computer that runs Linux, provides
Internet access (Browser, Email, etc.), has Text-to-Speech
Software, has an MP3 Player, is portable, uses "Tapatap" to
generate keystrokes without a keyboard, is multi-lingual etc. He
can find the details here -- <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.simputer.org/simputer/" target="_newWindow">http://www.simputer.org/simputer/</a>.