[Sigia-l] Friday quiz: Madonna's Sex Book

[leanne waldal]

On Sep 23, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Skot Nelson wrote:
> I found the Newton's size to be an interesting issue, in the wake  
> of the introduction of the Palm Pilot.

i still have 2 newtons -- i don't use either of them anymore but they  
were my main portable computer at one time.  laptops were too heavy  
and too big in the mid-90's compared with carrying a newton with a  
pager card and a wireless modem (to hookup to my brick-sized  
cellphone :)

the newton had a bigger screen and (imo) more capable processor,  
which to me meant better usability, than the palm.  and newton wasn't  
really a pda -- it was more like a portable computer like a laptop so  
it was a *perfect* size.

i have a treo 600 now which really doesn't do considerably more than  
the newton did.  it does have color, phone, camera and video camera  
so i can carry 1 device instead of 3 but the "daytimer" functionality  
-- which i use all the time -- and document management (read/write  
word docs and spreadsheets) hasn't changed or improved much in 10 years.

leanne