From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 14:27:53 PDT
On Friday 23 May 2003 15:56, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> Quoting Eric Schneck <eschneck_at_mindspring.com>:
> > I was in a meeting Wednesday with someone from our London office.
> > When I put my Newt on the table, he asked "Is that a Newton? Does it
> > run on vacuum tubes?"
> >
> > And then I was accused of being defensive of my Newt. Me?
>
> Okay, now I have to chime in. I had an impromptu conversation about
> handheld devices the other day with an SVP of Marketing (don't let the
> title fool you, he's definately tech-enabled) when he saw my 2100
> sitting on my Hi-Rizer portable stand. Turns out he was a Psion user
> for a while, then bought an iPaq and hated it. Much bashing of Wince
> ensued, followed by searching through the shelf of cool surplus hardware
> to find an Ericsson phone that is also a Psion PDA. It was a pretty
> cool design.
Can I have it, please?
(only half joking)
BTW, there is a very good Linux distro for the iPaq line. I believe it's
called 'Familiar Linux', or something to that effect.
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