"isn't that the way it always goes?" the singer sang.
Don Ferguson wrote: > No, not a eulogy - just fond reminiscing!! > > > > There aren't too many fields with such a compact and recent history. > I/T technology is one such. And the real, serious history of PDAs is > only about 10 years long1!! > > > > I wish I'd kept all my old Palms, for sure, but in them days I needed > the money more than I wanted the old devices. > > > > Cheers, > > Don > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J > Messeder > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Treo] Fun article > > > > The real bummer is that this is beginning to sound like a eulogy. > I truly hope that, to borrow from Mark Twain, rumors of Palm's > demise are greatly exagerated. > On the other hand, we who have been around computers for long know > the best there is eventually is replaced by something completely > different -- and better. > CP/M was a super customizable operating system that became DOS -- > which was pretty darn capable as an operating system. My first computer > was a Kaypro 4 -- so-called because it had two 400k floppy drives. The > operating system ran on the top drive, and you kept your working data > files on the bottom drive. > Then came Windows. > WordPerfect was given free, or almost free, in college, so lots of > people graduated and went to work in offices and when the boss decided > to computerize, the only experts in the place had been raised in the > church of WP. > Which is just about extinct. > Microsoft may be on the way toward something completely new, Linux > has been around for awhile and, like DOS may finally be gaining some > recognition in the non-hobbyist field. > Then there's the Open Windows concept Sun got going with it's own > Unix version called Solaris. > I fear one day I may wish I had kept the Palms I've owned along the > way, much as I wish I still had the P-1800 Volvo that replaced the 1954 > Woody Ford Station wagon I'd like to still have, which replaced an even > older English Ford with no reverse and a defunct generator I'm really > glad to be shed of. > So, while I am not eager to have to learn a new system, I have to > admit to a certain eagerness to see what will be next in the evolution. > For one thing, I think we're well on the way to converging radio > technology. Landline telephones have essentially given way to cell > phones. I'm thinking it won't be long before cell and wi-fi are one. The > > only thing cell fones don't have yet is true broadband speeds -- and > we're just about there. > > Sam Kamens wrote: > >> Don Ferguson wrote: >> >> >>> Even though he got quite a bit of stuff wrong, it's still fun! >>> >>> >>> >>> Here's the article, with a nostalgic picture. I wish I'd kept my >>> > Pilot > >>> (NOT Palmpilot, that came later) 1000. It would be fun to see it >>> > again! > >> I had a Pilot 1000 for about 5 minutes :-) >> >> I bought it, tried it, loved it, took it back to the store and bought >> > a > >> 5000 instead right away (needed that extra RAM :-) ). Then I >> > progressed > >> to a III, a IIIx, IIIxe, treo 600, treo 650, and now treo 680. >> >> And my wife has gotten my hand-me-downs along the way, plus I bought >> > her > >> a Tungsten E2 at one point. >> >> Can't say I've owned 'em all, but I've tried a bunch! >> >> Sam >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- /The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./ A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
