AST Zoomer

"John D. Mitchell" <johnm@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>

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From: "John D. Mitchell" <johnm@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: AST Zoomer
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>Yesterday, I received the AST's Zoomer - its is exactly like the Casio
>Zoomer only about $150 more expensive (I paid $620 inc shipping & tax).

Sigh.  These hardware folks sure seem to have their collective heads up
their fundaments.


>In both Casio and AST's Zoomer, the company's logo etc are all
>printed/painted, except that the OS info (Geos) is a sticker on the top -
>are they trying to say that this OS is a stop gap one and may change.

No, that just means that they are retarded and that someone at Geoworks
obviously wasn't on the ball to make them etch/paint/screen GEOS on them.

John "Dumb little things make such an impact" Mitchell