Going back to the far flung era of 2003 this most reminds me of using a Palm Pilot. While it was not open source, I don't think e-ink had been released yet, and did not have an attached keyboard or r45 jack it was similar.
Once a day or so you would connect to a computer and it would update and sync everything, news you were subscribed to, emails, etc. I believe it had wifi but my house did not so it was wired or nothing.
The screen was maybe 16 color greyscale so fairly similar to my experiences with e-ink displays in the near-times.
It was almost purely good for text, whether inputting or reading it out and while the 50year computer is ideally with much more storage at the time it held a decent bit.
This is what reading it put me in the mind of.
While I admit I've been some issues imagining my usage of this device, even if not endless scrolling I find that the items I might wish to learn about are a bit far flung to have thought or and downloaded in advance, I find the idea pretty interesting and wanted to share what it most reminded me of.
On 23/12/05 02:52, maustek wrote:
>Going back to the far flung era of 2003 this most reminds me of using a Palm Pilot. While it was not open source, I don't think e-ink had been released yet, and did not have an attached keyboard or r45 jack it was similar.>>Once a day or so you would connect to a computer and it would update and sync everything, news you were subscribed to, emails, etc. I believe it had wifi but my house did not so it was wired or nothing.>>The screen was maybe 16 color greyscale so fairly similar to my experiences with e-ink displays in the near-times.>>It was almost purely good for text, whether inputting or reading it out and while the 50year computer is ideally with much more storage at the time it held a decent bit.>>This is what reading it put me in the mind of.
I’ve seen multiple people on Gemini talking about using and old Palm
Pilot. It looks really great besides the keyboard aspect.
Hello everyone.
>> Going back to the far flung era of 2003 this most reminds me of using>> a Palm Pilot [...] It was almost purely good for text, whether>> inputting or reading it out and while the 50year computer is ideally>> with much more storage at the time it held a decent bit. > I’ve seen multiple people on Gemini talking about using and old Palm > Pilot. It looks really great besides the keyboard aspect.
Writing with the short hand method it had was good (for hand writing).
But a serial keyboard worked perfectly well with them. :)
I feel that the major issue today is the display. E-ink displays are
still not so good as we'd like (I'd love to be wrong). We have the
motherboards and processors, the keyboards (I'm writing this on a
delicious Keyboardio M100) and the rest, but the displays...
WDYT?
Best. :)
--
eduardo mercovich
Donde se cruzan tus talentos
con las necesidades del mundo,
ahí está tu vocación.
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 09:08:37AM -0300, Eduardo Mercovich wrote:
> Writing with the short hand method it had was good (for hand writing).
for what it's worth, I wrote and use a gesture writing system very similar every day all day on my watch-phone (timex familyconnect senior running android)
https://gitlab.com/unrznbl/gesture (used in shelli-ui for postmarketos, used daily on pinephone, moto surnia, etc for a while)
https://github.com/craigcomstock/termux-app/tree/gesture-master (termux-app version I have been using daily for quite some time)
I love it. Loved it when I had a palm pilot as well.
I mean, kind of frustrating but it has a limiting factor on how much I type, which I like! :)
-Craig