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From: taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: RFD: comp.sys.handhelds.hp48
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Date: 16 May 91 14:22:03 GMT
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In article <91136.002153LEIF@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>,
LEIF@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
|> [...]I think the majority (but not all) of the conflict in this
|>group is between the portfolio/wizard/poquet/etc... enthusiasts and
|>the
|>hp48 enthusiasts.  I think that the hp48; however, has many things in
|>common
|>with the other HP model handheld calculators.  I support the split:
|>
|>comp.sys.palmtops
|>comp.sys.calculators
|>
[..]
|>                                                   To those of you
|>who oppose the split in any form, I suggest that you might have better
|>luck
|>getting this group combined with the desktop computer group of your
|>choice
|>(ie comp.sys.Macintosh'n'Handhelds) than you will in preventing the
|>split.
|>Right now we are all reading comp.sys.palmtops'n'calculators, and it
|>aint too
|>cool.  If we split this group up right we will have made an offering
|>which
|>will be pleasing to the Net.Gods!  Les 'doit!  Later...
|>Leif Johnson                                
|>leif@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu
|>

Actually, although I can't speak for everyone who opposes the split, but
to my way of thinking this is the most like not splitting the group.  It
keeps all the calculators together and lets the "palmtop" people have a
place where they are not subject to getting overrun by the next hot
calculator. (They themselves can deal with the question of what happens
when the HP palmtop swamps the other palmtops.)

I like it.  I'd vote for it.  

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                                             >>>==>PStJTT
                                     Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber, KC1TD

"Nerd" is so demeaning, I prefer "fashion-impared."