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Back in the day there used to be this thing called Comdex. It was a huge technology trade show that happened in Las Vegas in November. Every year all the tech journalists would go out there, walk the show floor all day, file their stories at midnight, then go out and lose money at Binion’s and expense blue curacao drinks at Steven Spielberg’s now-defunct novelty restaurant Dive!

Or maybe that was just me doing that. I don’t actually remember anybody else being there.

A guy -- not Bill Gates -- demos Microsoft's tablet in 2000

Bert Keely, a Software Architect at Microsoft, shows a prototype of the Tablet PC that is being developed by Microsoft's emerging technologies group during Bill Gate's annual "state of the industry" speech at the COMDEX convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 12, 2000. The Tablet PC is a fully functional PC that combines the power of a desktop PC and the simplicity of pen and paper. Gates outlined the sweeping chages he sees in computing and gave a blueprint of his vision for the next generation of the Internet during his speech. Photo by Jeff Christensen