Subj : Re: Toshiba Libretto
To   : Bob Worm
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Nov 07 2023 07:45:00

-=> Bob Worm wrote to Shaggy <=-

 BW>   Re: Re: Toshiba Libretto
 BW>   By: Shaggy to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Nov 06 2023 23:45:44

 BW> Hi, Shaggy.

 > If there was a device back then with CE and the PSION
 > keyboard, that would've been better.

 BW> I have a series 5 up in the loft (this loft is starting to sound like
 BW> an Alladin's cave) but, as they often do, the display has stopped
 BW> working on it. I may revive it one day but I gather that's quite an
 BW> expensive thing to do - I wonder if there's an IPS screen replacement
 BW> for those? That would be lovely :)

 BW> I really liked Psion's OS, as well. It's a shame they're not around any
 BW> more :(

 > I think I might walk into my next meeting with the CIO and whip out my
 > Libretto. See what his reaction is. :)

 BW> I was thinking of taking my Acorn A3020 with me to the datacentre the
 BW> next time I'm there. I imagine it might attract some odd looks sat on a
 BW> crash trolley, especially if I started inserting 3.5" floppies into it.
 BW> In truth, I work on telecoms / networking kit so anything with a 9600
 BW> baud serial port is perfectly fine.

 BW> In fact that's how I found out the Psion was dead - I thought it would
 BW> be ideal as an ultra-portable serial terminal and got it out for that
 BW> purpose.

 BW> Speaking of professional computing, another one of my permanently
 BW> shelved projects was to take my son's old Leapfrog Clickstart "My First
 BW> Computer" and decode the IR coming out of the keyboard and mouse so
 BW> that it could be used as an input device on a "real" computer.

 BW> For those unfamiliar:

 BW> https://static01.nyt.com/images/2007/06/27/technology/28computer.600.jpg


 BW> I got some way into that project using a logic analyser but never got
 BW> to a working prototype. Anyway, I thought it would be pretty amazing to
 BW> use as a daily runner, or at least to take into the office and to
 BW> pretend to use it as a daily runner...

 BW> We are an interesting group...

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