CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (03/01/91)
Howdy,
i) Don't people realise that c.s.h. does not exist as a separate
thing to the letters that people submit to it. IT IS THE LETTERS
THAT PEOPLE SUBMIT TO IT. At the moment these letters are dominated
by postings from people with HP48sx's but in the future it might not
be. The people that originally wanted the group to split are those
people that hardly ever submit anything anyway (Flame me for that one!!).
I was really happy to see the program for the casio 602p . That was
brilliant, and the guy who wrote something about the agenda who started
with 'lets start a discussion'. FANTASTIC. That is what its all about
---- A TWO WAY DISCUSSION ---- about yours and other peoples
handheld machines ( is the HP48sx not considered a handheld ?). The
only way to get some traffic is to submit articles, no matter how
trivial, about whatever area of your handheld you want. DON'T BE SHY.
Then you'll get more people responding, and wallop you have a discussion!
Don't penalize the 48sx owners because they happen to have a lot to say
about their particular machine and don't sit at home expecting people
to write wonderful programs for your machine and submit them to the
group, they won't if you won't!!!! I think it would be very bad to
split the group. It is a group for handheld owners and the 48sx is a
handheld. In the future other machines will come along and people
will rave about them -- will they be thrown off ? -- Thrown off
of c.s.h. for discussing handhelds??? Isn't that completely illogical?
All I can say is --- Follow the example of the casio 602p owner and the
agenda discussers DO SOMETHING don't sit there and complain about
other people having a discussion. It would be a terrible shame if
a new group was created simply because of an enthusiatic response
to a particular machine. In reply to the guy who said something
like -
"How would you feel if a super new mega machine took up all
the bandwidth"
I wouldn't mind in the slightest, infact I would consider it a
very healthy thing, not something to be removed, and exactly what
the group is about, and it certainly wouldn't stop me submitting
stuff about the HP48sx.
To the owners of other machines --- Get writing.
Just my 2p (English money)
ii) Sorry to mention that profane calculator, but....
GATEWAY 48 works fine on my machine (version D + 32K ram), apart
from locking up on alarms, which I don't use anyway. It has never
caused a memory lost.
Conradgrue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Frobozz) (03/01/91)
In <771ED61B40001D50@gacvx2.gac.edu> CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes: > All I can say is --- Follow the example of the casio 602p owner and the > agenda discussers DO SOMETHING don't sit there and complain about > other people having a discussion. Actually my 602P is broken (and has been for quite a long while), I use a hp48 now. I posted that to gauge interest for the 602 since I have a *LOT* of source code for the 602 and it seems a shame to waste it (some of the programs might be worth looking at for owners of other programmables even). Pauli seeya Paul Dale | Internet/CSnet: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Dept of Computer Science| Bitnet: grue%batserver.cs.uq.oz.au@uunet.uu.net Uni of Qld | JANET: grue%batserver.cs.uq.oz.au@uk.ac.ukc Australia, 4072 | EAN: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz | UUCP: uunet!munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz!grue f4e6g4Qh4++ | JUNET: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au --
zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) (03/03/91)
In Article <771ED61B40001D50@gacvx2.gac.edu>, CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes: >.................................. I think it would be very bad to >split the group. It is a group for handheld owners and the 48sx is a >handheld. In the future other machines will come along and people >will rave about them -- will they be thrown off ? -- Thrown off >of c.s.h. for discussing handhelds??? Isn't that completely illogical? What's completely illogical is discussing dissimilar machines in the same newsgroup. Some "handhelds" are designed for number-crunching, and would be difficult to use for any serious amount of text entry. Others are the opposite. If the HP's had qwerty keyboards and larger displays, I might also have opposed the split. And they are not being "thrown off", just given their own newsgroup. Perhaps the split should be: comp.sys.handhelds.tenkey comp.sys.handhelds.qwerty Yes, I know the HP's have more than 10 keys, but you know what I mean, and so would everyone else. You may have noticed that this is the 3rd completely different solution I have proposed, in addition to the one officially under discussion. Any of them would have the desired result. ================== zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!zaphod
frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (03/06/91)
In article <1752@madnix.UUCP> zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) writes: >comp.sys.handhelds.tenkey >comp.sys.handhelds.qwerty Ummm ok, assuming that you are thinking that any machine without qwerty is a number cruncher, where would you put the SHARP Wizard? There are more too.. I could go through Educalc if you like. ian -=Runaway Daemon=-
zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) (03/09/91)
In Article <1991Mar5.164440.23600@csn.org>, frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: >In article <1752@madnix.UUCP> zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) writes: >>comp.sys.handhelds.tenkey >>comp.sys.handhelds.qwerty > >Ummm ok, assuming that you are thinking that any machine without qwerty >is a number cruncher, where would you put the SHARP Wizard? There are >more too.. I could go through Educalc if you like. I was thinking that any machine with a keyboard built around a "ten-key" number pad is a number cruncher, and that any serious text machine will have a qwerty keyboard-- including the latest Wizard. I'm also assuming that any machine that does not fit those two categories will be equally difficult to categorize in any other way, and would end up in a ".misc" group anyway. Can you think of a word to describes them? ================== zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!zaphod