On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 at 19:55, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I used my Palm(s) completely stand-alone. > I did not "synchronize" them with PC, other than a token backup to confirm > process. And I never used it as a peripheral to the PC. > I did transfer a few files back and forth between Palm and PC; for > example, for a conference, I copied a file with the conference schedule > to the Palm. > > I used the Fossil (Palm-OS) VERY briefly, in the same way. The watchband > on it is still new and stiff.
I am boggling. Well, perhaps this is an intercontinental difference, or perhaps I just had it wrong. For most of the users I know, it was a pocketable version of their Outlook calendar and address book. > I used Atari Portfolio and Poqet a bit. AND, when I needed to research > and learn TSRs, I did so on them! Poqet was MS-DOS 5.00. Portfolio was > imitation-DOS, but close enough that they had implemented the undocumented > calls that TSRs used. I wrote the [text-mode] screen capture TSR for > XenoFont on them. (For a while, Sybex used the screen capture and > screen printing routines of XenoFont for all of their text-mode books. > Then, I wrote the XenoSoft Sales Tax Genie on the Poqet. > > Yes, I tested everything on CGA, MDA, Hercules, EGA, VGA, 286, 386, 486, > Pentium. But why bother using those on 80x86 projects that were not > performance intensive? Nothing becomes USELESS just because there now > exists something bigger and faster. Well, no, of course not. That's sort of why we're all here. I still use DOS occasionally -- usually DR-DOS or PC DOS, for me. For some things, such as word processing, it's still fine. But whereas I know people who use Mutt/Neomutt/Alpine, I want a GUI for my email these days, for instance. > I used the OQOs (XP) extensively for email and web browsing. (Before > Android smartphones) I used my Nokia Communicator for that. :-) Small enough to use with 1 hand, when closed it was a decent "candybar" phone, but open, I could read a letterbox-sized slice of an A4 PDF page comfortable. > Until presbyopia did me in, I had no problem with tiny screens, if they > had enough resolution. I could read microfilm without a viewer, and could > easily see the grain in photos. When the ophthalmalogist asked me to read > the smallest line on the eye chart, he had to walk over to it before he > would believe me that it said, "Copyright Bausch and Lomb". Now, I can't > even read printed text without at least +2.5 :-( I live in some fear of this, and it's why I have not had laser eye surgery. (Adding the erroneous hyphen makes it sound much more exciting: laser-eye surgery.) I still have good close-up vision, at 51, but I have to hold stuff within a few inches of my nose to do it. If/when that goes, either LASIK or a cataract op will be high on the list > I would hope that the keyboard for Palm would at least use Grafiti font > for its keycaps :-) :-o I have 2 of them and I have to disappoint you. :-D -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
