20 Apr
2016
20 Apr
'16
2:02 a.m.
On 19 April 2016 at 21:37, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
Here's my top 3 weirdest devices I've ever
sent email through, just for fun:
1. The AlphaSmart "Dana" which was a strange laptop-like device which ran
PalmOS. The email client was Eudora for PalmOS.
I sort of wanted one of them. Interesting device.
2. Sony eVilla BeIA appliance using some kind of
(crappy) built-in mail
application.
Ahh, BeIA -- great idea, but both too late and too early, a neat trick.
3. Sharp Wizard handheld organizer over a serial TTY
connected to a 386/SX
with optional math co-processor installed so it could run ... Xenix.
Logged in via simple built-in vt100 terminal app on the wizard at 2400
BPS to the Unix box. Used 'elm' to send the mail.
I am looking at doing something similar with a Z88 & Raspberry Pi. :-/
That Sharp Wizard was a helluva organizer for it's
time. The main feature
was that it takes AAA batteries and thus I was actually able to afford to
run the thing in college by getting rechargables. It had a nice keyboard
and the display was readable in the sunlight, too. No backlight, though.
Sounds a bit like a Psion Series 3* or 5* -- both ran for a month+ on
a pair of AAs and had unsurpassed functionality. The former for its
time, the latter, in some ways, still today.
Which model of Wizard?
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