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- From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
- Subject: Re: Your chance to spend someone else's $$$!
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- gordon hlavenka writes:
- > For tax reasons I need to spend about $850 by the end of the end of
- > the year, and I have decided I need :-) a palmtop
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- Hot dog! Run (do not walk) to your nearest gadget store and
- buy the Wizard 9600 with all the trimmings. It will do all
- you mention, plus tons more. My experience with palm-top
- "PCs" (I had an HP-95lx for a while, and then sold it to get
- a Wizard 8000) is that they are just so-so organizers, and
- bloody awful PCs; very limited and very fragile; they'll crash
- if you look at them cross-eyed. The Wizard does lots and lots
- more organizer stuff, like very elaborate appointment and
- to-do lists, an outliner, three seperate phone lists with
- user-definable extra fields, business contact "list" that's
- actually a small database, and on and on. I played with a
- 9600 yesterday, and it's very, very cool, with Mac-like
- menus, a neat drawing function, and a nice big keyboard you
- can actually type on. The overall size is probably too big to
- comfortably fit in a coat pocket, but it easily gets lost in your
- briefcase. For the money you have to spend, you can get the
- unit and every major accessory. Be sure to get the spread-
- sheet card; it's a very good spreadsheet. Good luck...
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- * These are my opinions only.*
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