Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!rex!ames!eos!shelby!helens!baroque!jim From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Poqet PC Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 90 18:50:21 GMT References: <172ldg@yoda.byu.edu> <659@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM> Sender: news@helens.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford University Lines: 24 In-reply-to: hburford@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM's message of 8 Jun 90 01:19:11 GMT > The only way to use the very small QWERTY keyboard is with the index > finger of each hand. That really depends on your finger size. I think it's about 7/8's scale. I can touch type on it, but would not want to do so for extended periods. The postive key action (it takes some force) combined with the short key travel (compared with "real" keyboards, anyway), makes for sore fingers after a while. For short usage, the thing I found most annoying was that the space bar must be hit directly from above, so you can't lay your thumbs on the bottom edge of the case. Rather, they have to be up crowding your fingers. Aside from the keyboard, it's quite nice. The most impressive part is that they managed to have a legible display with such low power consumption. Poqet's have been available in computer stores here (Connecting Point, Computerland) since the middle of March. Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics 6 Trillium Lane Stanford University San Carlos, CA 94070 (jim@thrush.stanford.edu) (415) 723-9127