(excerpt)."SOMERSET, N.J., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest salvo in the computing
revolution has nothing to do with Microsoft(R), Apple(R), or even Pentium
Pro(R). Brother International Corporation announced today the introduction of
GeoBook(TM) -- the world's first Personal Digital Notebook. Designed as a
notebook, GeoBook allows users to send E-mail, get Internet access for
information, fax, use word processing, spreadsheets, addressbook, PC file
transfer and more -- delivering all the features they really need from a
notebook, at the price of an organizer!
Want to send e-mail, get information from the net, do all your word processing and spreadsheets on a full-size keyboard and take it on the road? Then GeoBook is
for you. Waiting for the $2,000 price tag? Surprise: It's $599.* Yes,
$599!*
GeoBook is a new type of computing device that brings "computing to the
masses." Based on Geoworks' new Geos 3.0 operating system, this highly
efficient integrated operating system allows GeoBook to deliver real computing
at a cost almost everyone can afford and in a form factor that everyone wants:
a notebook.
With its full-size keyboard, full-size backlit VGA monochrome display,
built-in BrotherWorks '98 software suite, and internal 33.6/14.4kbps data fax
modem, GeoBook overcomes all the industry negatives about handhelds, set top
boxes, Internet access devices, and other non-Windows(R) computing devices.
Also included is a 1.44 MB disk drive, PCMCIA type II slot for flash memory, a
VGA out, and serial as well as parallel port, all for a cost under
$600 complete.
GeoBook also allows files to be easily imported and exported to a PC as
well as offering BrotherWorks '98 on CD -- so that a PC user can load all of
the software applications of BrotherWorks '98 on their desktop for full PC
compatibility."