On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:58 -0400, 'Computer
Collector Newsletter'
wrote:
> Terrible! I tried one and the screen is like a satire of miniaturization.
On
Wed, 28 Sep 2005, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
I can only imagine... 1/4 of an icon and two
scrollbars...
FOUR icons. but they ARE small.
The screen resolution IS adequate (that was s'posedly what delayed it),
but the size is tiny. It is pretty much the maximum acceptable size for a
watch. A regular stylus works a lot better than the tiny folding one
hidden in the band buckle.
It has some larger fonts available, and it helps a lot to switch to the
largest ones.
Before prebyopia, it would have been WONDERFUL!
I created a "fiche" font for HPLJ, with 7 by 9 and 9 by 12 pixel
characters, and used to use it a LOT to print half a dozen pages
on a sheet of paper. Now I can't read it, or even a newspaper
without at least +2 diopters. :-(
I now use 3.50 reading glasses with the Fossil watch.
It'll s'posedly run MOST Palm software. The built-in software
is a lot more useful to me than that of the Epson RC-20,
which was awkward for me to use because I never adequately
learned to read Japanese. But it is a lot harder to program
Palm than it was to program the Z80 in the RC-20.
The Fossil palm watch is also available with crappier case and
band under the Abacus brand name.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Your Palms are silly toys.
OF COURSE!
Your computers are NOT silly toys???!??
Why do you collect them, if not as silly toys?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
xenosoft.com