smithj@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Jeremy Smith) (02/27/91)
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arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!?
Take a deep, deep breath.
Go to line one.
Repeat until asphyxiated.
40 columns? Who ever heard of such
a thing? When did YOU last use a
computer with 40 columns? Commodore
PET, Tandy model 100, Coleco Adam, Atari
400? Much BBS software often caters to
kids with such machines by having a 40
column mode.
40 columns by _16_lines_! Nah?
No. Nooooooo! <<goto line one...>>
As garyf@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
(Gary Friedman) said last may on c.s.h:
> Hewlett Packard's calculator division
was famous for introducing
> small, incredibly powerful computers
with such inadequate
> keyboards and screens, severely
curtailing access to an
> uncharacteristically powerful
operating system.
There was an article in InfoWorld
just a few month ago with a full frontal
color photograph of a psychologist hired
by HP to help with the human-computer
interface. Do they find people who LIKE
40 columns? <<goto...>>
This is an interim machine. This
is like the HP-28 being a stop gap until
they could build the 48. When the
machine is built, and it sells like hot
cakes, and makes tons of money they'll
go back and build the machine they
intended (read - I really wanted): same
size, bigger keyboard, 25 x 80 screen
(industry standard - minimum), >=12MHz
80286, 1M RAM and various optional plug
in goodies that represent word
processing, spreadsheet, database and
communications, but operate the same as
the built in 1-2-3 - press one key to
invoke it.
<Rave off>
I know. I'm raving on about an
unannounced product. Someone had to do
it. But these are my real reactions to
what I've seen in print (PCWeek _8_ #5
p1 2/4/91, InfoWorld _13_ #7 p3 2/18/91
and both posted in full on c.s.h).
Yet despite my misgivings this is
the machine I've been waiting for for a
decade. The {Portfolio, BOSS, AgendA,
Wizard} and {poqet} didn't cut it for
one inadequate reason or an($)other.
I've already put in my order, but I'm
also waiting impatiently for Big
Brother.
--
Jeremy |-) Smith
smithj@jacobs.cs.orst.eduwhir@orbit.cts.com (Rick Allard) (03/02/91)
In article <1991Feb26.182218.5494@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> smithj@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Jeremy Smith) writes: >...40 columns? Who ever heard of such >a thing? When did YOU last use a >computer with 40 columns? Commodore >PET, Tandy model 100, Coleco Adam, Atari >... Quiz: which machine had 46 columns? Hint: It was prototypically laptop and was out in 1983. (Not quite a handheld.)