Hello, everyone; time to introduce myself. My name is Chris Meadows, though on the Internet I tend to go by the handle Robotech_Master. I’m honored and privileged to be invited to join the Writing on Your Palm blog, and I hope you’ll find my writing interesting, or at least worthy of debate.
To give you some idea of my PDA-wise origins, I first fell in love with the Palm Pilot several years ago. I read several interesting articles in Salon Magazine about how they were becoming the new cool electronic reading machine and hand-held device, succeeding where the Apple Newton had failed. That suited me just fine. It was a couple of years before I could get one; I started out with the Palm IIIe, then moved up to the brand new Visor Deluxe almost immediately. However, since I wanted to take notes in college class with it, and there was no keyboard available for the Visor yet, I ended up owning and carting around two Palms for several months…plus a Happy Hacker cradle and a full-sized PS/2 keyboard—the very height of nerdiness.
Within the last few months, I broke the screen on my Visor for the final time, and upgraded to a Sony Clié T415 immediately. The 415 was everything I had ever wanted in a PDA…until it malfunctioned, and I had to send it in for service three times before Sony finally fixed the problem. (I plan to write about that in an upcoming column.) Still, now that it works again, I am quite happy with it, and expect to be into the near future.
I have never owned, nor had any desire to own, a PocketPC/Windows CE/Windows Powered/whatever they’re calling it this month PDA. That being said, I intend to stay away from “sucks” advocacy flames—I’ll leave that to my readers. Instead, I will simply write about news and views on the Palm as I see them. Granted, my vision may be limited by my budget…but at least that also means the Palm fans out there can count on me not to make a sudden Windows CE purchase and undergo a radical conversion. Palm user I am, and Palm user I expect to stay.
If you like or dislike, agree or disagree with what I have to say, I hope you’ll let me know…by email, on the discussion board, or in the Yahoo Group. (Why the heck WOYP needs both a discussion board and a Yahoo Group, I have no idea. You’d think just one forum would be sufficient, wouldn’t you?) Feedback is, after all, how a writer improves.
Next up: my audition column, on Sony’s new low-end Clié.
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