Re: OT :: some amusing possibilities of the Ricoh GXR system future ...

[Steven Desjardins]

PDA?  Is that like a smart phone?

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Boris Liberman  wrote:
> On 5/31/2011 20:37, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>>
>> LOL! Younger perhaps. In 1998 I was 44 years old. ];-)
>
> I was 27. Not very little if you look at it at face value. In fact, I may be
> a bit littler now, at least judging by the height...
>
>> I remember the Handspring Visor very well. I had provided some
>> assistance to the Palm group at US Robotics some years before, and
>> Handspring was a second effort started by one of the principals who
>> started the Palm effort. One of my colleagues' spouse worked at
>> Handspring starting right about 1999 and rose to the level of senior
>> managing director in engineering when she retired in 2003. I had
>> access to all the Handspring prototypes and pre-production components
>> as I helped them out with beta testing from time to time.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky
>
>> It's a darn nice little camera.
>
> That will be a real bitch to fix over here if it happens to break.
>
> Boris
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Re: OT :: some amusing possibilities of the Ricoh GXR system future ...

[Boris Liberman]

On 5/31/2011 20:37, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

LOL! Younger perhaps. In 1998 I was 44 years old. ];-)


I was 27. Not very little if you look at it at face value. In fact, I 
may be a bit littler now, at least judging by the height...



I remember the Handspring Visor very well. I had provided some
assistance to the Palm group at US Robotics some years before, and
Handspring was a second effort started by one of the principals who
started the Palm effort. One of my colleagues' spouse worked at
Handspring starting right about 1999 and rose to the level of senior
managing director in engineering when she retired in 2003. I had
access to all the Handspring prototypes and pre-production components
as I helped them out with beta testing from time to time.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky


It's a darn nice little camera.


That will be a real bitch to fix over here if it happens to break.

Boris


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Re: OT :: some amusing possibilities of the Ricoh GXR system future ...

[Charles Robinson]

On May 31, 2011, at 14:57, Thibouille wrote:

> I had a Visor as well, a while before they were bought back by Palm.
> A very nice little machine and good alternative (and more modular)
> than Palm machines.
> 

I've been through a whole bunch of Palms, from the original U.S. Robotics 
"PalmPilot" back in the mid 90's to my current Centro.  I'm a little sad that 
my next PDA/phone will not be PalmOS anymore.  I've gotten used to many of its 
quirks.

 -Charles

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Re: OT :: some amusing possibilities of the Ricoh GXR system future ...

[Thibouille]

I had a Visor as well, a while before they were bought back by Palm.
A very nice little machine and good alternative (and more modular)
than Palm machines.

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Re: OT :: some amusing possibilities of the Ricoh GXR system future ...

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Boris Liberman  wrote:
>> 
>
> Below is spoken with the voice of a teller of ancient fairy tales...
>
> When you were young, Godfrey, and I were little, there was a company called
> Handspring. They made a thing called Personal Digital Assistant that was
> called Visor. And the Visor's motto was "Infinitely expandable" because it
> had a rather big slot on the back that could be filled with anything
> starting with a cell phone module and going all the way to the massager
> module... After all, PD Assistant was supposed to assist and assist it
> did...

LOL! Younger perhaps. In 1998 I was 44 years old. ];-)

I remember the Handspring Visor very well. I had provided some
assistance to the Palm group at US Robotics some years before, and
Handspring was a second effort started by one of the principals who
started the Palm effort. One of my colleagues' spouse worked at
Handspring starting right about 1999 and rose to the level of senior
managing director in engineering when she retired in 2003. I had
access to all the Handspring prototypes and pre-production components
as I helped them out with beta testing from time to time.

> As for GXR - it may be a good self birthday present. I am turning 40 this 
> year...

It's a darn nice little camera.

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Re: OT :: some amusing possibilities of the Ricoh GXR system future ...

[Boris Liberman]

On 5/30/2011 23:59, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

Fascinating system design. Some of these things could be really neat if they 
make them:



Godfrey


Below is spoken with the voice of a teller of ancient fairy tales...

When you were young, Godfrey, and I were little, there was a company 
called Handspring. They made a thing called Personal Digital Assistant 
that was called Visor. And the Visor's motto was "Infinitely expandable" 
because it had a rather big slot on the back that could be filled with 
anything starting with a cell phone module and going all the way to the 
massager module... After all, PD Assistant was supposed to assist and 
assist it did...


Now back to my regular geeky self... The list of Springboard modules can 
be found here, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springboard_Expansion_Slot

As for GXR - it may be a good self birthday present. I am turning 40 
this year...


Boris


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Re: OT :: some amusing possibilities of the Ricoh GXR system future ...

[Ecke PDML]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1005/10050701ricohgxraccesories.asp

2011/5/30 Godfrey DiGiorgi :
> Fascinating system design. Some of these things could be really neat if they 
> make them:
>
> 
>
> Godfrey
>
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OT :: some amusing possibilities of the Ricoh GXR system future ...

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

Fascinating system design. Some of these things could be really neat if they 
make them:



Godfrey



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