Re: "Killer" content

Jim Kirkpatrick (james@geoworks.com)
Wed, 08 May 1996 11:43:33 -0700

At 11:23 AM 5/8/96 -0700, William Tanksley wrote:

>> - What kind of information / content / entertainment do you want?
>
>Okay. (Rubs hands together...)
>
>I would like the entire CRC (Chemical Rubber Company Handbook of Chemical
>Constants...), probably on a SRAM (the book is half a foot thick).
>
>And that Engineer's guide. Same thickness.
>

We helped some folks over the pond with a large book (Hi Craig!) for the
Financial Times of London. That experience shows that there are some
practical limits to what you can do. For example, a typical OmniGo page will
hold about 100 words without any graphics, assuming 12pt typeface. You can
only cram so much information into a file that will fit on the RAMDisk of an
OG. A 200k file is pretty much the limit, and that's pushing it.

I was looking at a bunch of files that I've done, and it looks like the
typical OG Book Reader file runs around 1k per page with a small number of
graphics. So, if you have a 500 page technical manual, it *is* possible to
do it, but it'll take up half of your SRAM card. :-(

>Thank you! It's very nice to hear that someone at Geoworks aside from
>Steve is watching us :).

Actually, there's more people here who "watch" you. :-) We're just very quiet.

-Jim Kirkpatrick
Brewmaster, Geoworks