Getting through all the hype on Apple’s Tablet computer… We’ve been hearing about this ‘probable’ tablet for several months now, but it is still a ways off. This article reflects back on the tablet that Microsoft announced at the 2000 Comdex show… It never materialized! Will this also be the fate of Apple’s entry? Read and laugh, weep, or sigh over…

The Tech Industry and the Tablet: A Sick Love Story – Nerd World – TIME.com 
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Back in the day there used to be this thing called Comdex. It was a huge technology trade show that happened in Las Vegas in November. Every year all the tech journalists would go out there, walk the show floor all day, file their stories at midnight, then go out and lose money at Binion’s and expense blue curacao drinks at Steven Spielberg’s now-defunct novelty restaurant Dive!

Or maybe that was just me doing that. I don’t actually remember anybody else being there.

I was definitely there in 2000 when Bill Gates, in his annual keynote, announced Microsoft’s new tablet computer, and everybody ooh-ed and aah-ed over it. And it did look cool. It was sleek and rounded. It was strangely truncated and portable — it had a magical aura, like a severed head. It positively reeked of the future. … [MORE]