11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
6:25 a.m.
On 11/09/2007, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
[Laughter]
Hang on... that *was* a joke, right?
I'd rather have a modern Psion. I'd give good money for a fast colour
one with a few gigs of storage, USB, Wifi and Bluetooth.
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> Quite why
I'd want illeterates to be connecting cables to my computer is
> totally beyond me...
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Liam Proven wrote:
I never can tell with you, Tony, whether you
faking it and taking the
mick, being deliberately obtuse to make some kind of point, or
genuinely think in a very strange way.
The point, as I have already spelled out abundantly clearly, is that
someone may be perfectly literate and fluent in multiple languages and
completely unfamiliar with English or even the Roman script.
People who do not speak, read or write English use computers too, you
Why can't they just open the box and look at the circuitry?
If it's got a UART, and maybe some 1488,1489 chips, then it is serial,
etc. But, if a computer is made in a different country than
the printer, then
the pictures will probably not match.
There is at least one documented case of a fatality from the frustration
of "RS232" printer interfacing.
Do tell?
A machine
called the Psion Death would not sell well, for obvious
reasons. So, Psion skipped the entire number. Almost anyone doing
business in China does the same.
That would be a nice item to have in a collection.