Editing Convergent Technologies (section)

===WorkSlate===
Released in November 1983, the WorkSlate, an early tablet-style personal computer system, was designed and marketed by Convergent, with the industrial design done by [[Mike Nuttall]]. It was 1" thick and the size of a sheet of paper. Its primary user interface was a spreadsheet. The WorkSlate utilized a mini-cassette for voice- and data-recording and for loading a range of pre-packaged add-on applications called TaskWare to handle jobs such as the management of personal expenses, calendars, etc. At that time there was no facility to download such "apps" over the Internet, so they were available only on the mini-cassettes.<ref name="InfoworldWorkSlate">{{cite news|last1=Stern|first1=Marc|title=Review:WorkSlate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iy4EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Convergent+Technologies%22&pg=PA60|accessdate=13 November 2017|publisher=InfoWorld|date=16 April 1984}}</ref> The WorkSlate was developed in a highly compressed twelve-month development cycle which resulted in inadequate testing and a sub-optimal product which sold poorly.<ref name="elytosave">{{cite news |last1=Winter |first1=Christine |title=ELY'S COMING TO SAVE CONVERGENT? |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-02-06-8501070785-story.html |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=February 6, 1985}}</ref> It was discontinued in the summer of 1984.<ref name="elytosave" />