Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!TAURUS.BITNET!zifrony From: zifrony@TAURUS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers Message-ID: <8905141355.AA20864@s4.Tau.Ac.IL> Date: 14 May 89 13:55:06 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 In article <1582@zen.co.uk>, Frank Wales said: >Why? Don't assume that a portable computer has to be the size of a >Compaq, or mains powered. I currently have a Z88, which is the size and >weight of an A4 folder. I can carry it most places without trouble. Sure, I didn't mean that a computer is too big to sit with it near the caffee table; I simply said that my picture of drinking coffee and reading a newspaper in the caffee is ruined by the entry of this device. A sort of breaking the romantic atmosphere. Maybe its just something we'll have to get used to in the future. I say this although I am very keen on new developmets in the field of elect- ronics and computers, which is one of the reasons I chose it for my occupation. -- Doron Zifrony E-mail: BITNET: zifrony@taurus.bitnet Msc. Student INTERNET: zifrony@Math.Tau.Ac.IL Dept. of CS ARPA: zifrony%taurus.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Tel Aviv Univ. UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!humus!taurus!zifrony Israel CSNET: zifrony%taurus.bitnet%cunyvm.cuny.edu@ csnet-relay -- Disclaimer: I DON'T represent Tel Aviv University. The opinions hereby expressed are solely my own.