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Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2002 Dec 14, 02:26 -0500
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2002 Dec 14, 02:26 -0500
Hello Jared, Ok, you got my attention. Tell me more. Is this the same as a "Palm Pilot"? I take it that you can load some kind of program into this? Do you know of a website where I can have look at one of these? Now I am salivating ;-) Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: Jared ShermanTo: Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:23 PM Subject: Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction > Robert- > I love computers best from a distance, I've spent too much time making them work for myself and others. > > But if you like the Celesticomp computer, you really owe it to yourself to look at the Palm. Even the cheapest $100 Palm now has 20? 100? times the brains and memory of the Celesticomp. Anything the Celesticomp can do, the Palm can do--but it can do a WHOLE lot more. Like give you a free skymap, that shows stars and planets according to time and position. And be very effective for email if you find a phone line. Or keeping an inventory of all the spares on board, and the contact numbers for the makers. > > All that and it easily will run for a month or two on two AAA cells, which can be rechargable or a LiOn battery and a 12V ships power adapter for little more. > > You need to spend a half hour with someone who HAS a Palm, let them show you what it can do, and the half hour becomes an afternoon or an evening and then you start shopping for one. > > And unlike "computers", Palms tend to be rock stable. Fits in your pocket, won't mess on the rug, waterproof cases and neck straps all readily available. 1/3 to 1/5th the price of the Celesticomps, same price if you buy a real high end Palm, and boy can any of them make the Celesticomp look like a fossil. (A nice fossil, but a fossil.) >