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From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Crazy dreams of HP48's with touchscreens
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Date: 20 Jan 91 07:40:04 GMT
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Andrey Dolgachev says "Isn't it enough that we're playing tetris...".
No, Andrey, it isn't!  Back in the 70's there was a club called PPC
(which stood for something like Programmable Pocket Calculator) whose
members were always writing programs that pushed their machines and
imaginations far beyond the limits of reason, much to the dismay of
"practical" people.  But every few years, HP would release a new and
wonderful new ppc which had AS BUILT IN FEATURES the kinds of things we'd
been forcing previous machines to do.  Let's allow the engineers to spend
their precious time and talents developing the machines of the future
whose features can be written by us, the enthusiastic users.  A message
very much like yours appeared almost 15 years ago in the PPC Journal, to
the effect that adding alphanumeric capability to a calculator would be a
silly waste of ROM space.  Even if our dreams do not come true in a year
or two, it's fun to dream...

-- Joseph K. Horn -- (714) 858-0920 -- Peripheral Vision, Ltd. --