These two 20-year-old tablets are totally terrific!

I thought these vintage tablet PCs were going to suck...but they're actually good?!

Sources:
"Desperation Deal," Computerworld, September 10, 2001.
HP Compaq restore CD image: https://archive.org/details/hp-compaq...
"Xplore Technologies buys assets of Motion Computing after foreclosure," https://web.archive.org/web/201602160...
"Zebra Technologies to Acquire Xplore Technologies," https://web.archive.org/web/201902261...
Motion Computing LE1700 drivers: https://www.zebra.com/us/en/support-d...
"A Tablet PC Special," HWM, December 2002.
Transmeta Crusoe CPU photo: Transmeta Crusoe photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Troubles for Transmeta," PC Magazine, January 2, 2001.

Here's a great period review of the LE1700: https://ruggedpcreview.com/3_slates_m...

00:00 - Introduction
01:57 - A very welcome upgrade
03:57 - Windows Vista saved me from itself
06:05 - Two years older but even more capable
07:40 - You'll never guess who actually made this
09:45 - You cheated and looked that up on Wikipedia, didn't you?
10:56 - I can't believe the handwriting recognition is this good
11:52 - Of course I played Quake 3 on it
13:03 - You could totally play games during lunch break on a job site
14:22 - Two very different tablets, but cool in their own ways

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