[H-GEN] Hand Held Computers

[A Bruce in the Land of the Bruces]

On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, David Shackleton wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, A Bruce in the Land of the Bruces wrote:
> > Of course, the Palmpilot is $500 odd, the Newton $1200 odd.  Both are
> > basically glorified organisers, both are programmable devices (the Newton
> > more so) and both support handwriting (the Palmpilot its own, the Newton,
> > yours).
> 
> "both are programmable devices"
> 
> The last time I checked out the Newton's for a programming project (stock
> control) there wasn't a lot of choice other than burn a PCMCIA card for
> use in the Newton...  has this changed considerably?

The MessagePad 2000 series are, full SDK running on a mac.

> And an IR port which is rather useful in removing any necessary physical
> connection for the device, which I wish the Pilot had.

And HP printers have nice IR input ;)

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Bruce.


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