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To: robert b furman who wrote (58291)	11/28/2012 1:29:11 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 95780

yup 20 yrs ago I got an HP100LX. I could link it with a cable to my HP150 PC at home to sync files. It has icons on it just like an Apple iPhone5 but no color or touch screen. I took the 100LX to Maui on vacation in 1993 and entered closing stock data by hand into Lotus 123 from the Sunday newspaper so I could do my weekly charts. I paid $400 it and $400 for a 10 meg memory card. My boss and I used to debate if the 100LX with Moore's law, someday be more powerful than my $35,000 unix workstation where all I'd need was a screen to do work... or if all the number crunching would be in the cloud... In 2010 I used the same program, ported from 123 to Excel, to upload the weekly data automatically onto an HP laptop. My 6-yr old Dell laptop died on the plane but I had all my data backed up on a 500GB external hard drive I paid $150 for... and the new HP i3 Laptop with probably more power and tons more memory than my Unix workstation cost me $730 with Maui tax! I am pretty sure W8 phones in the next year will do what I predicted 20 years ago... replace simple laptop computers.... where all you need when traveling is check in somewhere for big monitors and keyboards to do real work. BTW, the data file I update daily took several minutes to load on the $2000, 1994 Dell laptop and it loads about ten seconds on my 1999 $1000 i7 and about double the time on my 2010, $700 i3 laptop. It would take a drawer full of 10 MB memory cards to store the file for my 100LX....