> And at one point they were even going to have a handcrank on the thing so you could charge the laptop by hand if necessary. They had to drop that feature whe

> And at one point they were even going to have a handcrank on the thing so you could charge the laptop by hand if necessary. They had to drop that feature when they realized that 1) there was no way to anchor the dynamo into the laptop chassis without making the laptop substantially larger, and 2) a child couldn't provide enough power to charge the laptop at a useful rate. They made some external dynamos, but I don't think those were widely used either (again, too slow to be useful). > It even had a view source button on the keyboard! And it didn't do anything. The button was baked into the hardware before the software was written. There were a couple of other nonfunctional buttons on the keyboard. There was, at one point, even a proposal to include a disassembler in Sugar to let students reverse-engineer the (closed-source) wireless card firmware. I don't think that one ever got off the ground.