I thought some of you might be amused by this reply to a post I made in a CCtalk mailing list thread discussing the best device for undistracted writing with a good keyboard, display and battery life:
FWIW, Evan is a well-known figure in the vintage computer community. m ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Koblentz via cctalk" <cct...@classiccmp.org> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cct...@classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 3:47 PM Subject: Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA >> Radio Shack M100 ... still used by some writers for the very reason you >> mention. > > That is not true. > > It was an urban legend in the 1990s that a handful of old farts in the > entirely sportswriting industry (thousands of writers overall) may > "still" be using their Model 100s. I'm sure if you looked hard enough > some of them still used typewriters too. > > In 2017? It's ridiculous to even speculate.
