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January 31, 2005 5:23 AM PST

Tech guru pitches $100 PC

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At Davos, the Johnny Appleseed of the digital era shares his ambition to propagate a $100 laptop in developing countries.
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Reminds me of Clive Sinclair
by January 31, 2005 3:49 PM PST
Reminds me of Clive Sinclair who introduced the,(Sinclair ZX80), first £100.00, (UK Pounds), Computer.

1Kb RAM, 4kb ROM, Television as a VDU and Cassette Tape deck for Storage. BASIC Language.
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One word - Simputer!!!
by January 31, 2005 9:58 PM PST
Mr. Negroponte has got his head in sand!!! He is reinventing the
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 -- http://www.simputer.org/simputer/.
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