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Originally posted by DanWig:
...VDx Graphite, Green, and Blue (use for various applications @ work).

I wish someone would invent the ability to have two different schedules in one PDA! That would eliminate my need of the graphite visor...

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1)Cheap little plastic organizer from planet lunch points
2)Tiger Game.Com, more like a gameboy than an organizer, but they advertise it as having:

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Phone book: Keep track of your friends' phone numbers, addresses, birthdays and more.

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Calendar: A month-by-month calendar for easy reference.

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I started out with a Sharp 16K address book, which lasted all of three months. Then I went on a digital Hiatus for a while and finally bought a Palm Pilot Pro, after seeing a co-worker's (That was 3 years ago). Then we both did upgrades of them, by hand, to 2Meg of memory. That lasted for a while until my Pro's digitizer went (started this May). It would get off track after a couple of days and I'd have to re-center it). Finally gave up on it and bought a VDX this past June, and I'm loving the 8MEG, and the better screen. Have yet to buy a SpringBoard, but I think I'm going to get the backup module first. Then a low profile wireless web one, if they ever make one!

Psion 3a..ace machine but limited syncability.Not really a problem as I didn't have a PC to sync to at the time.Managed to run my business on it for 18 months though, then sold it to my brother to make way for a...

Geofox One (Psion 5 clone with bigger screen and touchpad pointer)..complete with a PCMCIA slot and sold c/w a 33k modem card which gave me my first experience of the internet.Very exciting for me at the time but the Psion/EPOC browser was pretty crap,and 16 greyscales and no frame support do not a pleasant browsing experience make!Geofox went bust 6 months after I bought it and mechanical failure in the battery compartment consigned it to the bottom drawer and prompted me to buy a...

Mitac notebook PC..which I'm typing this on.I replaced the Geofox with a..

Psion Series 5, but again,limited syncability prompted me,via a favourable review on www.foxpop.ndirect.co.uk to get a...

Graphite Visor deluxe,which I adore.Especially now that I've managed to make it talk to my Motorola Timeport L7089 and pick up my email out on the road.

Hurrah for the GVDX! (The VisorCentral dicussion forums are pretty damn useful too)


[This message has been edited by Benm (edited 08-18-2000).]

Sharp 610
Sharp 9520
Sharp Zaurus 5000
Sharp Zaurus 3500 (2 of them, then one refurbished)
Palm IIIe;for about a month while waiting for my VDX to come

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Up until now I have been using Post-It notes and the basic paper planner that the University of Kansas provides to its students. This led to a lot of clutter and lost information. A friend of mine got a Palm III a while back and swears by it, so I decided to investigate going digital. After looking at the PalmOS devices, the Psion Revo, and some low end Windows CE machines, I decided the Visor Deluxe offered excellent performance, easiest compatibility with my Mac, and a price that is hard to beat. I ordered my Ice Visor a couple of days ago, and I anxiously await its arrival.

jonvw

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I have used a PalmPilot Personal since the first day it shipped over 4 years ago (it even has the USRobotics logo on it!).

Last Saturday I bought a Blue Visor Deluxe and a Stowaway. If a friend of mine hadn't mentioned that he visits visorcentral all of the time, I wouldn't have even known about Handspring.

Long Strange Trip

I purchased a Sharp organizer in Japan back in 1987 on a summer trip for college, before they were commonly available in the U.S. The thing that attracted me to it was that (in addition to the Sharp organizer functions), the Japanse version would help you look up chinese characters. Since I was studying the language at the time, it was a real boon. It unfortunately died early - it was really fragile, had a flexible keyboard that just stopped working.

I then briefly used a low-end Casio BOSS, which was so pitiful I stopped using it.

I next purchased a new Sharp (can't remember which one), which lasted for a couple of years. It died.

I then owned another Sharp Wizard, the OZ-6500 which had 512kb, a fax/modem, and could synchronize (in a limited way) with Microsoft's Schedule +. I still have it, it's a nice unit, but the synchronization features were not great.

I then got on the Palm OS bandwagon and purchased a Palm Professional. I loved it, used if for a year and a half, but soon maxed out the measly 1mb memory.

Fortunately, Handspring came to the rescue with the Deluxe, which I love. Now if they'd only come out with the SixPak and/or @ctivelink so I could go wireless, I'd be really happy.

Several "electronic organizers" including the Rolodex NameCard (3K RAM) and a Casio Databank watch

US Robotics Pilot 1000 (128K), then the 1MB card

Dropped the 1000 and busted the screen; bought a PalmPilot Personal (512K), upgraded with a 2MB card.

Friend got a Visor Deluxe and raved; I had to have one too, along with 8MB Flash module. Wife now has PP Personal.

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