[SPARCbook] Sparcbook in the litterature ...

[Ken Hansen]

Also, Tsutomu seems to use a wall projector for his display device, at least
he
was when I saw him on some random show a year or two ago. His office was
a normal desk, nothing on top of it, save a keyboard, mouse and a few
papers,
and with the lights turned down slightly you could see an XWindows display
on
the wall.

I don't think it was staged for the shoot, because no one mentioned it (it
was in fact
hard to figure out why the room was dark), but that is certainly a
possibility.

I guess he outgrew 800x600 on a 10.4" display ;^)

Seriously though, an 85 Mhz SPARCBook as the .44 Magnum of portables?

Even for 1996 that is a huge dallop of hyperbole...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Soderholm" <helsod at algonet.se>
To: <Sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 6:26 PM
Subject: [SPARCbook] Sparcbook in the litterature ...


> I found the following referense to a Sparcbook while I was re reading "The
Cyberthief and the Samurai" by
> Jeff Goodell, about the capture of the infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick.
>
> "Tsutomu collect computers the way Immelda Marcos collected shoes - he has
30 or so of them all in various
> states of disrepair at any given moment. Hes newest traveling companion is
a 2,4 gigabyte, 86 MHz SPARC
> portable. It's the .44 magnum of portables, ridicolously powerful, a Dirty
Harry machine"