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- Path: cup.portal.com!Harv
- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 10:20:03 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
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-
- >Harv, I see you have a Newton. I am buying a used Newton MP 100 with 1.3 OS
- >with a meg.. My use is to keep notes, to do and names. How do you like your
- >Newton?
-
-
- >| Peter Sinclair-DayPOWER MACINTOSH 7100/80 |
-
- I love the Newton. You won't like the MP100 much unless y ou also
- get a 2 meg PCMCIA RAM card for it (another $100 or so).
-
- I use the little thing daily and carry it with me everywhere.
- Since I don't own a Mac, the Newton was the #1 rreason I got
- Shapeshifter going on my 1200.. with it, I can download and
- install software onto the Newton and there is a ton of it out
- there of all description. (I use the Lunatech PDA pkg downloader).
-
- You might also want to buy Graffiti, the 3rd party handwriting
- recognition package from Palm Computing (now owned by USRobotics).
- The 1.3 OS HWR is not the best (much improved in the new 2.0 OS)
- and can be frustrating to use. Graffiti is the best. You can
- write as fast as you can and if you learn Graffiti's penstrokes
- (might take an hour at most) you'll get nearly error-free
- text entry.
-
- I wouldn't use a 1.3 Newton without it.
-
- The Mp100 is also a bit battery hungry - it uses four AAAs which
- pack a lot less juice than the AAs which the newer models use.
- So don't go anywhere without spare batteries, or pick up the
- Newton AC adaptor (it's tiny) too for about $30.
-
- Harv | "Do you recognize the
- harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- hlaser@eworld.com <--- (until 3/31/96) | - Leon Russell
-
- ps to the Amiga faithful.. yes I know, Mr. Sinclair-Day is
- an Amiga-hater, so please don't hate me too much for replying
- to him :) but since he wants to get a Newton, he can't be
- all bad. I've owned a Newton since last Summer and the Newton
- community reminds me a LOT of the earlier Amiga community in
- many ways.
-