Fossil Palm OS 4.1 watch (was: PalmOS no more? :(

There's a company called PConHand. They made a PDA-wristwatch that debuted at the Jan. 2000 CES in Las Vegas. I was a beta tester. Unlike the current PalmOS watch, this one actually was useful! http://www.pconhand.com/onhandpc.asp The web site liberally uses the word "Palm" but they probably shouldn't... -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:06 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: OT: Fossil Palm OS 4.1 watch (was: PalmOS no more? :( miniaturization. On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: 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: 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