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Technology Stocks : General Magic -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: up_tick who wrote (4151)	11/11/1998 11:50:00 PM
From: Kurt Goebel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

db I remember you saying you would rather use a laptop a few months ago. I have a palm pilot and it takes me a lot longer to input data by hunt and peck with the stylus. Sure can't do that in a car or moving around at all. It is also still awkward compared to my i1000 nextel phone. If you add the wireless connection to the palm pilot it is even more awkward. I have to back it up too on my computer. This was an issue as I'm often away from "my" computer for long periods of time. Another big downside of the palm pilot is that if I lose it, someone else gets all my info :^( As for MS Exchange, I don't use that nor does my company so that wouldn't do me much good. But I can reach Portico all the time and I don't have to pay someone to admin any MS Exchange software or PC servers and dial in modems. As for using a computer over Portico, If I were close as you say, and no one was in front of it already, and I didn't have to wait for it to boot or to log in and bring up a browser and then get to my favorite internet site, and while we are at it, I also had the time to sit and be stationary then I might use it instead. I agree with your local chip support for ASR. In fact I'm taking time right now to write this message from tuning code for such media applications. General Magic has talked about exploiting such devices in magicTalk when they are available and mass market. The NOC is there for other things as well, like safely storing my important data, email and voice mail, switching, implementing the information services and call management, right? Kurt