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From: hardarso@weiss.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Casio BOSS / Sharp Wizard
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Date: 25 Mar 91 19:28:30 GMT
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I haven't seen the Sharp Wiz, but you don't want the Casio BOSS - 
sorriest piece of hardware I ever saw. I spent my christmas 
vacation in California trying to decipher the manual for my
father-in-law who had just bought one. Ergonomics from hell,
that's my five-cents worth.  The BOSS has several applications
built in, like Calendar,Notepad,Calculator, etc, a kind of
Sidekick for the shirt pocket. A very good idea; as soon as
someone comes out with a workable one I'll buy it. However the
BOSS has the following disadvantages: 1) Inconsistent key operations.
Sometimes you use the Enter key to confirm your menu choices, 
sometimes you use a special Confirm key. 2) A lot of the features
are not displayed on the menus, you have to have the (thick and
japanese-speak written) manual to know about them.
3) User configurability is minimal, I want access to foreign characters
that aren't there. 4) Just about all texts on the display appear
in uppercase, I don't think the designers have ever used English
on a regular basis. 
Thanks for asking, I always needed to blow of some steam about
that machine.

Kari
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