require input form respected peers :^) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Nov 2004

On Nov 1 2004, 17:29, chris wrote:
...
  >Not terrific.  I'd think that any Palm Pilot
would be better.  I was just
...
  >goofing around with the Cybiko, trying to find
interesting things to so
...
  with it.  No
backlight doesn't help for reading in bed. 
 Ok, thanks, so I'm back at square one.

 I think maybe I'll buy an old tablet PC on ebay. I can probably pick up
...
  an early pentium unit for $100 or so, and speed
isn't important for
 reading a PDF. 
Another possibility would be a Sharp Zaurus.  They run Linux.  I have
an SL-5600, which I use with Kermit (serial port) and telnet (Ethernet
or wireless) for talking to network switches, but it has a good browser
and you can get a PDF viewer for it.  I've not used the PDF viewer so I
don't know how good it is.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York