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From: throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Digital Diary
Message-ID: <3055@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 20:13:26 GMT
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> anand@amax.npac.syr.edu (Anand Rangachari)
> [...] called a Psion Organizer. It is the size of a largish pocket
> and has a remarkable ammount of storage (about 256k). It is possible to
> download info froma PC and then you can peruse the info while on the
> move.

Does it have a built-in clock?  You see, I hate wristwatches, and
am now using a quartz pocketwatch.  While I can get a wristwatch
with a calculator, memo pad w/8K characters storage, and even
phone autodialer, I can't seem to find the same thing packaged
for pocket use, and with a PC interface for up/down-loading.  The
closest thing I found to what I want was packaged as a laptop
with a full-sized keyboard.  Looking at the inside of the thing,
the electronics took up a chip or two, and the mechanics of the
keys took up the rest.  I'm convinced that it is well within
current technology to build what I want, but nobody seems to
actually do it.  Either it is packaged as a wristwatch instead of
a pocketwatch and lacks an rs232 or other PC link, or it is
packaged as a pocket device with PC link, but lacks a timeclock
mode.  (Multiple tagged alarm times would be nice too, but
nobody seems to have that in any packaging at all.)

Most frustrating.

I wonder if I'm just doomed as doomed can be, because my
needs form too small a market segment for anybody to pay attention
to me.  That would be sad, I must say.

--
Classic: a book wich people praise and don't read.
                              --- Mark Twain
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Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw