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NOTE: Cassiopeia A-10: A Recollection was from my old web page 
(circa early 2000's.)

I ditched my HP Omnigo 100 in favor of the latest and 
greatest, Casio Cassiopeia A-10 Handheld PC.   Casio and 
Microsoft's marketing department had me in their tractor 
beam.   As soon as it hit the shelves at ChumpUSA, I started 
saving my pennies for it.  Eventually, I had enough money for 
it and bought it.

The unit itself was pretty slick.  Larger screen, larger 
keyboard, speaker, backlight, etc.  The OS was Windows CE 1.0 
(Pegasus) and looked somewhat similar to Windows 95.  It was 
still grayscale but I don't think there were any consumer 
handhelds that were color back then.  The unit had sounds 
that came out of this little speaker, which I thought was 
totally cool.

I found that taking notes on the unit was a little easier 
than the Omnigo.  The larger keyboard helps.

I did miss the ability to rotate the display from landscape 
mode to tablet, which I got use to with the Omnigo.  Also, I 
don't think there was any character input via stylus 
available.  The Omnigo had some early form of Grafitti, which 
I thought was very useful, but the A-10 didn't have that 
option.  It probably wouldn't be too useful to have Grafitti 
since you couldn't use it in tablet mode.

Alas, my life with the Cassiopeia A-10 handheld was 
short-lived.   Several months after I purchased the unit, it 
was stolen.  I was bummed.  Good thing my data was backed up.  
Still, it sucked.  I still followed the development of the 
software for the unit after the theft and it looked like 
support for the device was abandoned after Windows CE 2.0.  I 
purchased a Palm III sometime after.

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