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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Casio Boss models
Summary: Each has its place.
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.161656.21650@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 5 Nov 90 16:16:56 GMT
References: <58735@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Nov5.144649.6488@cbnewsj.att.com>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1990Nov5.144649.6488@cbnewsj.att.com> mec@cbnewsj.att.com (michael.e.connick) writes:
>In article <58735@microsoft.UUCP>, garye@microsoft.UUCP (Gary ERICSON) writes:
>> I'm tossed between buying a Sharp Wizard (see my other posting), a Casio
>> BOSS, or an Atari Portfolio.
>
>Get a Portfolio. The "street price" of the unit has fallen recently and
>it's now priced so low that it beats out most of the far less capable
>"electronic organizers." J&R Computer World in NYC is now selling the
>Portfolio for $239!
>
>I've had my Portfolio for 9 months now and wouldn't trade it for anything
>less than a Poquet. ;-)

I have both a Portfolio and a BOSS SF-7500, and both are useful.  The
Portfolio has lots of features that the BOSS doesn't, but at the cost of
greater size and weight.  I tend to keep the Portfolio in the car and
carry the BOSS in my pocket for easy access to the memo and telephone
features.  If you are a real technoweenie and can afford both, get both!

One area where I rely entirely on the Portfolio is in storing
appointments.  The BOSS has a nice feature of letting you set an alarm
at a different time from an appointment (so you have time to get there),
but the Portfolio has a great repeat system, so that you can enter a
regular appointment and have it repeat every day, week, month, or year.
You can also have it repeat every weekday only!  I've been meaning to
write a calendar program like that for my Unix system.


-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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