[GreenKeys] OTsome charting on the death of desk top computers-seems the phone and tablet

[Jim Haynes]

I guess I'm a little closer to being a Luddite.  But for my daily work
I want a big screen, and for ham radio use I also want a big screen to
display the digital mode program I'm running and also the program that
controls the radio.  I do have a good-sized laptop that I use when I'm
traveling, and some smaller laptops that I use for portable ham radio
use.  They are old Dell C610s that are cheap so if one gets run over by
a truck it's no big deal.  And one of those I use with a program that
turns it into a "glass Teletype" that I use for a portable Teletype
for testing all my greenkey-ed apparatus.  I bought a little notebook
size computer a while back - it's just a computer, doesn't do anything
else - and thought I might use that for portable radio work as well.
But it requires a dainty keyboard touch that is hard for my fat fingers.

I'll admit it's convenient at lunch when someone wants to show a picture
of his kids or cat, or to look up some electronic component we happen
to be discussing.  But I don't carry a phone.  I bought a prepaid phone
once to take on a trip, and the one time I wanted to use it it wouldn't
work for some reason.  So it's been in the bottom of my backpack ever
since.  It was originally Alltel, and since they went out of the business
around here I haven't got around to taking it to Verizon and seeing if
they can make it work.  Or just tossing it and getting another one.
Don't think I'll ever buy a phone that requires a contract, since I just
don't see myself using it all that much.