On small boxes, John Dvorak in Jan 23 PC Mag: "Other Things of Interest Dept: Virtual I-0, the Seattle company that brings you those nifty 3-D LCD eye-glasses, was showing [at Comdex] a complete hard disk-based computer the size of a beta video cassette. The idea was that you could plug in a keyboard and the video headset and finally have that computer-without-a-screen concept that we've been promised. Perfect for someone wanting genuine privacy, although I think once we start seeing a plane load of people all wearing virtual reality headsets, the world becomes a little creepier. Most Interesting Rumor Dept: Supposedly, Microsoft is quietly wooing Hitachi and has secretly ported Windows 95 to the Hitachi 32-bit RISC processor. It hopes to have Casio build and market a small RISC computer about half the size of the Newton in an attempt to open up the market for those little hand-held, do-all gizmos that seem to be attracting a lot of attention in Japan. This is being developed by the same group who did the Timex/Microsoft watch, I'm told. When I pressed on whether this will really be Windows 95 or Windows NT with a Windows 95 shell, I was told it will be plain-vanilla Windows 95 stripped down to fit on a smaller platform. If Microsoft ports plain Windows 95 to other chips, this will not sit well with Intel. Maybe this thing is the wallet computer that Gates keeps mumbling about in his more recent speeches."