A couple of years ago, I was at my friend <a
href="http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/">Calum</a>'s house,
editing the latest <a href="http://www.uts.oise.utoronto.ca">UTS</a> Art
and Music Night video.  As is our nature, we started talking about
computer hardware.  I asked him about a neat little notebook I had seen
him use before a few years ago.  A few minutes later I had an original NEC
Ultralite in my lap.  The machine seemed so neat that I ended up trading a
1GB SCSI hard drive for it (at the time I didn't have a SCSI system, and I
was also young and naive).
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I joined what little remained of the Ultralite community (which was mainly
a mailing list) and set about learning what the little bugger could do.
My Ultralite took me on a time warp back to the days when DOS ruled the
earth, and mighty dinosaurs roamed.  Despite its nonexistant battery life,
I still took it on a trip to Thunder Bay, plugging it in when I could to
write down my thoughts.
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The year after I got the Ultralite I also availed myself of another piece
of Calum's hardware, an <a
href="http://www.msu.edu/~luckie/gallery/mp130.htm">Apple Newton
Messagepad 130</a>.  I picked up the 130 very quickly as a note-taking
tool, and the Ultralite was used only occasionally.
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