7 Jun
2019
7 Jun
'19
3:45 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 at 19:55, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I used my Palm(s) completely stand-alone.
I did not "synchronize" them with PC, other than a token backup to confirm
process. And I never used it as a peripheral to the PC.
I did transfer a few files back and forth between Palm and PC; for
example, for a conference, I copied a file with the conference schedule
to the Palm.
I used the Fossil (Palm-OS) VERY briefly, in the same way. The watchband
on it is still new and stiff.
I am boggling. Well, perhaps this is an intercontinental difference,
or perhaps I just had it wrong. For most of the users I know, it was a
pocketable version of their Outlook calendar and address book.
I used Atari Portfolio and Poqet a bit. AND, when I
needed to research
and learn TSRs, I did so on them! Poqet was MS-DOS 5.00. Portfolio was
imitation-DOS, but close enough that they had implemented the undocumented
calls that TSRs used. I wrote the [text-mode] screen capture TSR for
XenoFont on them. (For a while, Sybex used the screen capture and
screen printing routines of XenoFont for all of their text-mode books.
Then, I wrote the XenoSoft Sales Tax Genie on the Poqet.
Yes, I tested everything on CGA, MDA, Hercules, EGA, VGA, 286, 386, 486,
Pentium. But why bother using those on 80x86 projects that were not
performance intensive? Nothing becomes USELESS just because there now
exists something bigger and faster.
Well, no, of course not. That's sort of why we're all here.
I still use DOS occasionally -- usually DR-DOS or PC DOS, for me. For
some things, such as word processing, it's still fine.
But whereas I know people who use Mutt/Neomutt/Alpine, I want a GUI
for my email these days, for instance.
I used the OQOs (XP) extensively for email and web
browsing. (Before
Android smartphones)
I used my Nokia Communicator for that. :-) Small enough to use with 1
hand, when closed it was a decent "candybar" phone, but open, I could
read a letterbox-sized slice of an A4 PDF page comfortable.
Until presbyopia did me in, I had no problem with tiny
screens, if they
had enough resolution. I could read microfilm without a viewer, and could
easily see the grain in photos. When the ophthalmalogist asked me to read
the smallest line on the eye chart, he had to walk over to it before he
would believe me that it said, "Copyright Bausch and Lomb". Now, I can't
even read printed text without at least +2.5
:-(
I live in some fear of this, and it's why I have not had laser eye
surgery. (Adding the erroneous hyphen makes it sound much more
exciting: laser-eye surgery.)
I still have good close-up vision, at 51, but I have to hold stuff
within a few inches of my nose to do it. If/when that goes, either
LASIK or a cataract op will be high on the list
I would hope that the keyboard for Palm would at least
use Grafiti font
for its keycaps :-)
:-o
I have 2 of them and I have to disappoint you. :-D
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