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From: doherty@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re:Portfolio
Message-ID: <5755.25de248b@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 18 Feb 90 04:28:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin
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I have been using a Portfolio from late Nov. 1989 until now.
It works and is quite robust. I did get some frights but never
actually lost data. The problems arose when the batteries were
nearing their end of life. Until I got very strict about turning
off screen display is unlikely to use machine and while I was 
depending on the auto screen shut off, I found battery life very 
short only two weeks. However when I changed to turning it off
when ASAP, I found battery life began to appproach the manufacturers
figure of about 6 weeks.
I found i used it and stopped using my filofax which I had been using for 
two years at the time. I did find that jumping between the diary and 
the editor and the address book, actions I did a lot, took a noticeable time
and long enough to slow me down at times. However dropping past items from
the diary helped a lot.
I did not get the file transfer to work and felt that this prevented me 
from fully utilising the Portfolio.

Michael Doherty, computer Lab., O'Reilly Institute, University of Dublin,
Trinity College, Dublin 2.    Doherty@vax1.tcd.ie