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From: throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Digital Diary
Message-ID: <3109@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 16:31:53 GMT
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> aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg)
>> <throopw@xyzzy.UUCP> wrote:
>> [...I'd like features I find in some wristwatches
>>     packaged as a pocket device...]
> You buy the wristwatch version of what you want. You drive over to a
> jeweler or watchmaker, and you give them money. They convert the case
> into a pocketwatch. You drive over and pick it up. Sounds easy to me.

Yeah, I considered that.  Problems I encounter:

  - Costly hand labor.  End up taking <30$ worth of electronics
    and packaging it in a 120$ case (unless you have facilities
    and tools to do the work yourself).  (Or, as David Leterman
    says.... VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME!!!)
  - On nice thing about pocket devides is that they can afford
    slightly larger screens and keyboards.  This route obscures
    that advantage, and one is stuck will little munchkin keys for
    which one has to cary around a toothpick or three.  Yuck.
  - Finally, even wristwatch devices with all the other features
    I'd like don't seem to have "download calendar" (or other data)
    features.

But thanks for the thought.
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Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw