VTL
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 604 |
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.
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