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- From: pwestlak@eoe.co.uk (Peter Westlake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen
- Subject: Re: HELP: Need Newton/HP95 help
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:42:14 GMT
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- Titch (rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk) wrote:
- :
- : I absolutely agree that Personal Digital Assitants (*not* pen computers)-
- : Apple's description, and a very good one - should be the next computing
-
- Personal Digital Assistant is too vague a term for my liking - you half
- expect it to give you a manicure. "Pen Communicator" is much more
- descriptive. Of course, the Newton does not emphasize comms much,
- so "pen computer" is probably about right. (And yes, I too know that
- "Newton" means more than the computer - I was referring to the first
- machine in the line. Actually, until it shows some signs of materialising
- in the real world perhaps I should call it the zeroth machine :-)
-
- Peter.
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