Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:16:12 -0800 From: Chester Prudhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] FLASH!!! L50M Touchscreen verified for REAL! Exists!!
David Chien wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:56:57 -0800 (PST) > From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: FLASH!!! L50M Touchscreen verified for REAL! Exists!! > > http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/search/auc?p=libretto+50m&alocale=0jp&acc=jp > > Meiji Insurance company in Japan had these custom made by Toshiba for use by > their staff. > > No mouse button as you can see in various pictures of these L50M's, and > everything's touchscreen operated. Same peripherals as the L50. > > ---- > > If you do buy one, make srue they include the original Japanese OS and > Touchscreen drivers! > > david =) > > P.S. sigh.... being outside Japan here in sunny S.Cal (well, actually rain wet > right now), I'm very sad that I can't order these L50M's since everything on > the auction pages are in Japanese, and many don't ship internationally.... > > P.S.2. Speaking of which, anyone out there in Japan willing to act as an > auction go-between for the L50M and even more items? There's a lot of fun > items for me on Yahoo Auctions, like Mizuki Arisa phone cards, and sadly, most > of them want Japanese bank/postal transfer payments and shipping addresses. > Naturally, you'd have to bid on items for me, but I'd pay for them in full and > offer something extra for the time spent. (Don't jump at my offer if you > aren't up on bidding, or don't want to bid on dozens of phone cards ;)- > Is there even a commercial service for this? > This L50M looks like a pretty amazing little machine! I wouldn't mind having one myself. Isn't there a way to look at this Yahoo auction page in english? It also appears that these are available from amazon.com Japan as well. A dumb question - could these also be loaded with, say, Win95 or 98 while retaining the original Japanese OS? Chester ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
