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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
clearly you need glasses after all that typing on miniscule screens... look where we're having this conversation (and what the conversation is about), do you seriously think i was in the "pointing and giggling" group back in the day ? in fact, i probably was the one who noticed a grammatical error walking past you and pointed it out. for your own good, mind you ; out of the sheer goodness and public-mindedness of my heart.
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Riiight. And
then you went back to your friends and giggled!
(They
all giggled... they wouldn't
stop giggling... dammit,
why won't they
stop giggling?!?...
)
H-haaugh...
Okay, I'm back.
Yeah, those days demonstrate how far we've come. Back then, if I wanted to work on a document, I first had to convert it to a text file, then port it over to the PDA to work on. And vice versa. There was no Pocket Word, nor any convenient sync-conversion apps, for those first products. It made text editing that much more trouble, especially if any unusual formatting was involved.
Same thing with most e-books: Any fancy fonts or formatting had to be sacrificed in order to get it into the PDA to read. No wonder so few people went for those PDAs back then... the ones that pretty much formed up the market behind them were the Palms and other basic organizer units.