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From: hadj@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Mike Hadjimichael)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Walkman computers
Summary: don't want to look like a nerd?
Message-ID: <2027@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 89 04:17:24 GMT
References: <336@belltec.UUCP> <27304@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <27304@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England)) writes:
< 	This sounds like my idea of a portable computer- the Sony
< WalkMan Computer.  I would want some simple voice input in addition to
... 
< 	Uh, oh.  I just thought of something.  You remember the
< pre-calculator nerd with the slide rule hanging on his belt?  I can
< see myself with one of these units hanging on my belt with the phones
< and display hanging on my glasses-  I get an interesting piece of
< e-mail as I'm walking down the sidewalk that I just *have* to reply
< to-  I reach down for the chord keyboard hanging on my belt (a little
< too low) and start groping it as I type out my reply.  To anyone else
< on the sidewalk it's "instant geek".
< 
< 	Going to have to think of some way to use this thing without
< looking like a complete nerd.   :-)

Don't wrap masking tape around the bridge of your glasses!
(or electrical tape, these days...)

-m.

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