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- From: pete@plutonium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU (Pete Goodeve)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
- Subject: Re: Psion Series 3 Version Number
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 07:20:43 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <24588@castle.ed.ac.uk> <8435@fuhainf.fernuni-hagen.de> <1992Aug12.072752.8388@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>
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- In <8435@fuhainf.fernuni-hagen.de> (11 Aug),
- Bernd Meyer (meyer@fuhainf2) writes:
- >
- > Version 1.80F/GER, Serial 124747, non-transparent screen-cover, not
- > raised...
-
- In <1992Aug12.072752.8388@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au> (Wed, 12),
- Ian Staples (ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au) writes:
- >
- |> >Paul Smee (smee@bristol.ac.uk) writes:
- |>
- |> I have a Psion with serial nr. 156448 , V1.80F and a matte screen surround.
- |> A friend has serial nr. 124xxx , V1.80F and the transparent facing over the whole screen.
- |>
- > I have just been lent a Psion Series 3 unit by the local dealer in Cairns
- > (Qld Australia) to try for a couple of days.
- >
- > It is serial number [EBA] 500334.
- > It is version number 1.77F/ENG.
-
- > The application buttons often need a fairly firm press or two to activate.
- > (The Agenda one seems to have given up already!)
- Uh oh...
- >
- > The screen had slight markings from the keys straight out of the box. The
- > screen surround is just plain grey plastic continuous with the rest of the
- > facing inside the "lid".
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-
- Sigh... I guess I extrapolated from too few data points, when I suggested
- you could determine its version from the appearance.
-
- It also begins to sound as if there's no linear relation between version,
- case design, and flat-cable (Apps buttons) reliabilty. Strange that they're
- so mixed up. Makes things tough.
-
- -- Pete --
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