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

[Richard Knoppow]

       I think the point is that people are not getting smaller. You can 
buy a large screen display and full sized keyboard to fit a laptop and 
probably also tablet or smaller computers.  The computers are smaller 
but the interfaces (to use a modern generic word) can be full sized.   
One can also buy very high capacity auxilliary drives to fit any machine 
with a USB port.
       I am a little surprised that the streets are not covered with 
people who have been run over because they were using a hand held 
something and not watching where they were going.
       The current method of typing seems to be "all thumbs" or rather 
all thumb NAILS.  I see people texting pretty fast this way.
       Anyone listening to the ham bands recently, they all seem to be 
dead but there is no report of a radio black out or ionospheric storm.

On 4/28/2015 10:25 AM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> 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.
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