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The picture at Wikipedia is of the Microwriter, not the Microwriter AgenaA. Try this page:

http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/org.htm

There's a picture on there under that name which is the device I remember -- the AgendA that is, not the Microwriter below it.

I think the poster below is correct, it's a Microwriter AgendA. The picture at Wikipedia is of some other Microwriter device. This page has a picture of the AgendA:

http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/org.htm

My friend had one around the same time I had my Psion Organizer II, ~1989 or so in highschool in the UK.

There have been touch screens but how many of them automatically changed based on rotation?

Back in the early 90s, the Radius Pivot display automatically changed based on rotation.

Existing product from the 80s plus touch screen (and possible change of sensor technology *) should not equal patentable innovation, in my view.

[ (*) I don't know if the Radius display used a mercury switch or a mechanical switch on the pivot mechanism; either way, using a mercury switch to implement a pivoting display is obvious, given the idea of a pivoting display.]

Possibly an Acorn user. Acorn computers supported expansion boards on 'podules' which had the slot in line with the hole on the case, so you fitted them just by pushing them into the slot. As I recall, they used a very similar physical connector to Microchannel, just with a different orientation.

Check the first YouTube video at about 9:00 for the case mod and John Hobbibal's compukits. I've only just discovered his homepage, and he has a Compukit UK101 page, with a photo of his Compukit 101.

Check the first YouTube video at about 9:00 for the case mod and John Hobbibal's compukits. I've only just discovered his homepage, and he has a Compukit UK101 page, with a photo of his Compukit 101.

Check the first YouTube video at about 9:00 for the case mod and John Hobbibal's compukits. I've only just discovered his homepage, and he has a Compukit UK101 page, with a photo of his Compukit 101.

I'll just go and try to find where I put my trusty British Thornton

One of my professors pointed this one out to me once:

http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/gpad.htm

Maybe he meant the Sparc IPX computer: http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/ipxcat.htm

You could get NuBus interface cards for them, or even PDS (anyone even remember that format? toaster mac stuff.)

Do you remember the Radius Pivot?