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Actually I wasn't :-) What I thought funny were (i) the concept of futuristic fax machines (do people realize that most of these still have internal modems at 9600 baud?) (ii) the naiveté of the term "screen phone", it's so much more charming than "smart phone", and (iii) the description of it as a "phone with a minicomputer". Minicomputer indeed, today's 1GHz phone processors are more powerful (and probably have more memory) than the Compaq laptop Gates was using then.



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