Dauphin DTR-1: a 1993 Windows Touchscreen Tablet PC!
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Tadesan
Chapter 11 bankruptcy is an amazing concept. It-s purpose is to prevent wasteful fighting amongst debt collectors. Without a mechanism, investors would simply bring endless legal action that would waste money and tie up the system; which would interfere with making more money. So they developed a system that punishes the business just enough and also mollifies investors by not making too much fuss over one failure. There-s plenty more money out there to be made because there are plenty of other people-s hopes and hard work to take advantage of.
It-s kind of like the king forgiving the debts of his people.
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Chapter 11 bankruptcy is an amazing concept. It-s purpose is to prevent wasteful fighting amongst debt collectors. Without a mechanism, investors would simply bring endless legal action that would waste money and tie up the system; which would interfere with making more money. So they developed a system that punishes the business just enough and also mollifies investors by not making too much fuss over one failure. There-s plenty more money out there to be made because there are plenty of other people-s hopes and hard work to take advantage of.
It-s kind of like the king forgiving the debts of his people.
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godzil42
I have a similar device (two in fact) but bigger made by Fujitsu a bit after the 325Point. (I think it is from 1993)
I-m struggling to get any software or documentation about them which is quite annoying.
It does not use hard drive but only PCMCIA, two slot and a mystery one that looks really similar but not completely. It also use Wacom type stylus, with a grayscale screen.
I know that the one I have was part of a fleet used by a travelling salesmen in a french company.
Yup can feel it was some professional high quality and expensive material for that time when you start to open it.
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I have a similar device (two in fact) but bigger made by Fujitsu a bit after the 325Point. (I think it is from 1993)
I-m struggling to get any software or documentation about them which is quite annoying.
It does not use hard drive but only PCMCIA, two slot and a mystery one that looks really similar but not completely. It also use Wacom type stylus, with a grayscale screen.
I know that the one I have was part of a fleet used by a travelling salesmen in a french company.
Yup can feel it was some professional high quality and expensive material for that time when you start to open it.
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MrKeys57
Very nice to lookback like this! - i am an -old computerfox- scince the days before the internet even existed, we only had BBS and crappy modems with 1200 and 2400 baud speed lol!
i bought my first -laptop- in the eighties, - i have it in the closet, an old Amstrad with only 64k memory, but with built in Basic! - not bigger that 30x20cm, - 4. cm high, with screen built ONTO the top of it, - no HD! - and still works ok! - that was the days! - thanks for nice clip, greetings from sweden, Levi
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Very nice to lookback like this! - i am an -old computerfox- scince the days before the internet even existed, we only had BBS and crappy modems with 1200 and 2400 baud speed lol!
i bought my first -laptop- in the eighties, - i have it in the closet, an old Amstrad with only 64k memory, but with built in Basic! - not bigger that 30x20cm, - 4. cm high, with screen built ONTO the top of it, - no HD! - and still works ok! - that was the days! - thanks for nice clip, greetings from sweden, Levi
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Quickdraw
I almost wanna say I dont feel bad for the guy who bought it, but then I remember, honestly, that reading up on product reviews really wasnt a thing. He saw the ad in a magazine and bought it through mail order. Like damn, the internet really makes it so you dont end up getting ridiculous purchases like this now. If he could have seen reviews about it melting he might not have got it at all. Thats alot of money I wouldn't wanna spend on anything but Desktop parts!
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I almost wanna say I dont feel bad for the guy who bought it, but then I remember, honestly, that reading up on product reviews really wasnt a thing. He saw the ad in a magazine and bought it through mail order. Like damn, the internet really makes it so you dont end up getting ridiculous purchases like this now. If he could have seen reviews about it melting he might not have got it at all. Thats alot of money I wouldn't wanna spend on anything but Desktop parts!
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Tim
WOW! Tredex! I worked there from 1989 to 1992 so I had missed out on this product. But, I have MANY fond memories from working there. I know you really can't share the info from the sale of this unit but I wonder. Was the name of the person who sold this Dauphin to the buyer Harry? If so that would make sense as that would have been one of his specialties. The product line that I was in charge of was laptops. Anyway, nice article!
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WOW! Tredex! I worked there from 1989 to 1992 so I had missed out on this product. But, I have MANY fond memories from working there. I know you really can't share the info from the sale of this unit but I wonder. Was the name of the person who sold this Dauphin to the buyer Harry? If so that would make sense as that would have been one of his specialties. The product line that I was in charge of was laptops. Anyway, nice article!
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PghGameFix
I just dug mine out. Bought it back in the 90's. Used it for when I went back to collage. and I worked for an alarm company at the time. I had it full of NAPCO software, and could program panels in the field. Later on. When I went back to school full time. I remember writing papers on it while on trips. (literally in the back seat of a car) Mine got a real work out. FYI. I bought mine for $399.
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I just dug mine out. Bought it back in the 90's. Used it for when I went back to collage. and I worked for an alarm company at the time. I had it full of NAPCO software, and could program panels in the field. Later on. When I went back to school full time. I remember writing papers on it while on trips. (literally in the back seat of a car) Mine got a real work out. FYI. I bought mine for $399.
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nightrazer85
I think it might decent as kind of a Palm device for taking notes, and manage simplfied e-mails on the go. If I had it at the time, that would be what I would have used it for, and for learning stuff from school back in the day, while listning to my walkman playing music on cassette tapes: -) Since I was a kid at the time though I would in no way have any means to afford such a pricey tech.
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I think it might decent as kind of a Palm device for taking notes, and manage simplfied e-mails on the go. If I had it at the time, that would be what I would have used it for, and for learning stuff from school back in the day, while listning to my walkman playing music on cassette tapes: -) Since I was a kid at the time though I would in no way have any means to afford such a pricey tech.
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Tyler
I never got into laptops way back in the way because my parents were too cheap to buy any advanced gadgets. But Those stylus touch screens were in their infancy, it never really became good until the capacitive touch screens they use now. Then you now have the Surface Pro and Ipad pro with their pen that responds to pressure.
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I never got into laptops way back in the way because my parents were too cheap to buy any advanced gadgets. But Those stylus touch screens were in their infancy, it never really became good until the capacitive touch screens they use now. Then you now have the Surface Pro and Ipad pro with their pen that responds to pressure.
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MTRI
We had a Windows for Pen computing machine similar to this in 1993. 386, 20 MHz, 4 megs RAM, stylus, monochrome screen, not sure of the hard drive size. Wish I could remember who made it. I tried field data collection with it for the US Forest Service with GIS and a connected GPS. A little to early for this.
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We had a Windows for Pen computing machine similar to this in 1993. 386, 20 MHz, 4 megs RAM, stylus, monochrome screen, not sure of the hard drive size. Wish I could remember who made it. I tried field data collection with it for the US Forest Service with GIS and a connected GPS. A little to early for this.
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BrainWav
Holy crap, that's where that keyboard came from! I used one of those Dauphin keyboards as my main keyboard for a few years in high school. Found it randomly at a computer show. It was great for LAN parties, as it could slip into a 5 1/4- drive bay.
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Holy crap, that's where that keyboard came from! I used one of those Dauphin keyboards as my main keyboard for a few years in high school. Found it randomly at a computer show. It was great for LAN parties, as it could slip into a 5 1/4- drive bay.
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