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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:12:47 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
<jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

>When I first came across the Motorola MPX300 cell phone, I was very impressed by
>its unusual dual-hinge design that let it open one way to be a conventional flip-
>phone with a display in portrait orientation, or the other way to have the display
>in landscape orientation and the buttons treated as a QWERTY keyboard instead of
>cell phone dialing buttons.
>
>https://www.mobilegazette.com/motorola-mpx.htm
>
>Recently, the DELL Inspiron Duo came to my attention. A number of laptops have a lid that opens 360 degrees to operate in tablet mode; this one, instead, had the display turn 180 degrees in the rest of the lid that framed it, so that the tablet mode left the keyboard protected on the inside.
>
>https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Inspiron-duo-Convertible-Netbook-Tablet.43896.0.html
>
>There was the Amstrad PPC512, which was also unusual because you could power it on ordinary D-cell batteries, and because of futuristic styling which would have led to it not being out of place as a prop on the series Space: 1999 - in addition to having a screen that folded down, and a keyboard that then folded over-top of it.
>
>http://ruscoe.org/2012/06/amstrad-ppc640/
>
>And, of course, there was the IBM ThinkPad that had the "butterfly" keyboard.
>
>https://gizmodo.com/5733896/the-sad-demise-ibms-awesome-fold-out-keyboard
>
>Anyone recall other examples of products with unusual and innovative form
>factors?

The Cray-1, etc.

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