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Re: Newer wearables?

On 3 October 2000 at 13:42, "Rich Ervin" <> wrote:
> A nice, used Toshiba libretto is my choice.  It works as a standalone
> computer and is usable as a wearable.  Slightly small for a laptop, slightly
> big for a wearable, completely perfect as a compromise at around $1K.

The Hitachi VisionBook Traveler or Ricoh Magio is my choice, for the
same reasons, plus it has serial, ps/2, vga, parallel, irda, 3 PCMCIA all
built-in. No expansion/replicator/bar/thingy to get those ports like on the
Libretto. Price range is similar. Ricoh still has some Magios new at
http://www.ricohdirect.com/magiolink and Extreme Computing has a short
article on using them in a wearable at
http://www.extremecomputing.com/gettingstarted1.html

> I have an older 70CT I bought used.  Very happy with perfomance under win95.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh Kindler" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 5:12 PM
> Subject: Newer wearables?
> 
> 
> > I've been wanting to get into Wearable computing for a while, but the
> price
> > point of commercial ones (mainly Via and Xybernaut) is to high, while
> > home-brewed ones lik ethe WearComp and the Lizzy are either out of date
> > (Lizzy doesn't even have a pentium processor!), and/or require more
> > electronic expertise than I have.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the direction of a newer, more powerful/newer
> model?
> > (preferably one with a transmeta chip)
> >
> > Thanks.
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> >
> > Carpe Aptenodytes!
> >
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