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- From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
- Subject: Re: Electronic Personal Organisers
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- Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:58:24 GMT
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- In <19996@acorn.co.uk> asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) writes:
-
- >GET AN HP95LX....
-
- >I had used a filofax for years, before having a play with a Psion series 3.
- >Some of the facilities it offered seemed very useful, such as being able
- >to sort things, and having a calculator handy. But one thing above all
- >else made it worth looking at pocket organisers seriously - the agenda.
-
- >For example, its fine writing an appointment in your filofax, but unless
- >you actually keep checking it on a regular basis, you can still forget it.
-
- >With the 95 you can set it to beep at you in plenty of time, and then for
- >that appointment you can have backup notes, spreadsheets, etc.
-
- It should be noted that many cheaper organizers have this feature, of
- scheduling with an advance signal. My Casio SF-5300 for example, which
- sells for aobut a tenth the price of the 95LX.
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