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An 'internet' tablet or a Linux computer?
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briand
2008-10-16 , 11:50
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I like my N800. I find that it "just works" for what I need it for -- a bit of mobile web browsing, catching up on a movie or show I missed on television, or any number of other ways the device has found a niche in my day-to-day life.
Of course, maybe it's just the "gadget appeal"... it's just plain
cool
!
Oh... and, maybe I'm the only one here that also owns both of the previously pictured portable computing devices? I still use the Model 100 every once in a while, usually tethered to an open serial port on one of the desktops as a tty terminal. The other is used for its "ooh and ahh" factor among fellow geeks... and also does a decent job of propping open doors that like to swing shut.
I also have two japanese/english IBM 5150 (8086-based) desktop computers (the DOS interpreter, in ROM, will hot-key switch between english, and kanji or katakana japanese!!), a PDP-11 (
ooh! look at the pretty blinky lights!!
), a DEC Rainbow, and a whole slew of 80x86 computers [where x = 1, 2, 3 or 4]. Perhaps I should open up
Brian's Eclectic History of Computing Museum
!!
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