zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) (02/19/90)
I've been looking at the Casio "B.O.S.S.", and it looks real
tempting, but I haven't gotten a look at a user's manual for it
yet. What I mainly want to know is, does the "memo" program have
any kind of text-editing features (at least cut & paste)? If not,
it seems like it would be of limited usefulness to me, since it's
not likely to be programmable at the system level.
(Waldensoftware is selling them for $200, but I don't know what
they want for the PC file-transfer adapter).
The Atari Portfolio is such a near miss that I expect someone
will do it right one of these years (I'd be more tempted if it
had the serial port built in). In fact, I'm a little afraid to
buy anything right now, they keep getting better-- I'm also
starting to look at the Psion MC200, even though it's larger &
more expensive (we would have called it small a couple of years
ago).
P.S. I crossposted this to both comp.sys.laptops and comp.sys handhelds
because I don't know which is really appropriate. Most of the time
the latter is dominated by HP calculators. Any comments?
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zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
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{decvax|att}!jordan_b_pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (02/20/90)
I bought a casio fx720p (and cassette/printer) in 1984, and love it, but only as calculator and programmable toy, and as proof of "what could be"; a full machine with keyboard, display, mass storrage and printer. Opening it was ominous, as Casio could afford to package 2 custom surface-mount chips on a single sided PCB for $50. The memory is 4k, the display 12 characters, the keyboard non-usable. (I also have a TRS model 100 for the same reason, only its got 32k and 4 by 40 display and usable keyboard) I wouldn't get a nonprogrammable toy like the Wizard or Boss, especially for scheduling, because pretty soon one of the pocket 80C88 machines (e.g. atari, poquet, go, psion) will include Lotus Agenda... -- Jordan Pollack Assistant Professor CIS Dept/OSU Laboratory for AI Research 2036 Neil Ave Email: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 Fax/Phone: (614) 292-4890