[Swordmaker]

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[TXnMA]

My one close encounter with John-Louis Gassée was at the Boston Computer Society meeting where he unveiled the Macintosh Portable. He came onto the stage with the big-screen's camera focused on a sheet-covered table. With a French flourish, he removed the sheet to reveal -- a pile of parts!

Then, he proceed to snap those parts together like Lego blocks -- on stage and on camera -- and turned it on -- and had a running Mac!

On the way back to the car, we all agreed that we had just witnessed one of the most spectacular examples of industrial design we had ever seen -- and that we had been introduced to a beautiful product none of us could afford, and for which none of use could see a practical use!

Heck, IIRC, the battery was bigger and heavier than the one on my motorcyle!

At any rate, John-Louis Gassée made it all very entertaining... [-)

[moehoward]

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