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  • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK This user is from outside of this forum
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    @Infoseepage Let’s not forget the leather!

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    • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK This user is from outside of this forum
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      #61

      @Infoseepage This is why I refuse to give up my #Kindle 3 & 4. Can’t bloody stand the touch-screen ones, what a massive step backwards — for what!? A few cents of plastic? I’m only using an old Paperwhite 3rd gen because I got it free from a family member and the backlight is useful but they should never have gotten rid of the buttons.

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      • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

        Grabbing lunch. Included a side-shot this time to give you an idea of the device’s profile: it doesn’t simply open calm-shell style but instead slides the keyboard tray outward and brings the centre-fold inwards to give it a more comfortable typing position, and stability — the centre-fold is *not* at the back of the device! Psion won a design award for this piece of engineering.

        No modern device is doing this.
        They did it in 1997.

        #psion #retrocomputing

        drmikepj@mastodon.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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        @Kroc I loved my 5 so much! Still a bit sad that I sold it all those years ago.

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        • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

          Grabbing lunch. Included a side-shot this time to give you an idea of the device’s profile: it doesn’t simply open calm-shell style but instead slides the keyboard tray outward and brings the centre-fold inwards to give it a more comfortable typing position, and stability — the centre-fold is *not* at the back of the device! Psion won a design award for this piece of engineering.

          No modern device is doing this.
          They did it in 1997.

          #psion #retrocomputing

          kroc@oldbytes.spaceK This user is from outside of this forum
          kroc@oldbytes.spaceK This user is from outside of this forum
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          #63

          Meanwhilst, in the hyper-advanced future of 2026...

          (https://zerowriter.ink/pages/zerowriter-fold)

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          • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

            Meanwhilst, in the hyper-advanced future of 2026...

            (https://zerowriter.ink/pages/zerowriter-fold)

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            alex@social.alexhyett.comA This user is from outside of this forum
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            #64

            @Kroc the screen on the Psion looks much better! It always amazes me how expensive these distraction free writers are!

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            • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

              Meanwhilst, in the hyper-advanced future of 2026...

              (https://zerowriter.ink/pages/zerowriter-fold)

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              tbsp@merveilles.townT This user is from outside of this forum
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              @Kroc Why can't we get the people bending over backwards to make the thinnest mobile phone with the bulkiest cameras revisit the Psion form factor?

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              • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

                Grabbing lunch. Included a side-shot this time to give you an idea of the device’s profile: it doesn’t simply open calm-shell style but instead slides the keyboard tray outward and brings the centre-fold inwards to give it a more comfortable typing position, and stability — the centre-fold is *not* at the back of the device! Psion won a design award for this piece of engineering.

                No modern device is doing this.
                They did it in 1997.

                #psion #retrocomputing

                a@pdx.socialA This user is from outside of this forum
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                @Kroc @me_ Lovely. Aside from the obviously truncated ones like tab and enter, are the keys on that the normal size?

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                • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

                  Grabbing lunch. Included a side-shot this time to give you an idea of the device’s profile: it doesn’t simply open calm-shell style but instead slides the keyboard tray outward and brings the centre-fold inwards to give it a more comfortable typing position, and stability — the centre-fold is *not* at the back of the device! Psion won a design award for this piece of engineering.

                  No modern device is doing this.
                  They did it in 1997.

                  #psion #retrocomputing

                  kirtai@tech.lgbtK This user is from outside of this forum
                  kirtai@tech.lgbtK This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @Kroc
                  I love that design.

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                  • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

                    Grabbing lunch. Included a side-shot this time to give you an idea of the device’s profile: it doesn’t simply open calm-shell style but instead slides the keyboard tray outward and brings the centre-fold inwards to give it a more comfortable typing position, and stability — the centre-fold is *not* at the back of the device! Psion won a design award for this piece of engineering.

                    No modern device is doing this.
                    They did it in 1997.

                    #psion #retrocomputing

                    kroc@oldbytes.spaceK This user is from outside of this forum
                    kroc@oldbytes.spaceK This user is from outside of this forum
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                    #68

                    This is the book I’ve been writing using the #Psion: https://camendesign.com/nomad

                    It’s about a nomad from an uncontacted tribe crossing a desert to see civilization for the first time, except this is a sand-glass the size of Earth… the #worldglass

                    You can download the free PDF / ePub with 60 pages. If you want more, I’ve just posted the current manuscript with an additional 100 pages on the Patreon, ~45’000 words total written over the last 5 months.

                    #writing #fiction #fantasy

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                    • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

                      Grabbing lunch. Included a side-shot this time to give you an idea of the device’s profile: it doesn’t simply open calm-shell style but instead slides the keyboard tray outward and brings the centre-fold inwards to give it a more comfortable typing position, and stability — the centre-fold is *not* at the back of the device! Psion won a design award for this piece of engineering.

                      No modern device is doing this.
                      They did it in 1997.

                      #psion #retrocomputing

                      kroc@oldbytes.spaceK This user is from outside of this forum
                      kroc@oldbytes.spaceK This user is from outside of this forum
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                      #69

                      You’re probably real tired of these same-same photos but I am still working on the book (https://camendesign.com/nomad) despite less crowing about it. It is very nose-to-the-grindwheel stuff and abating the distractions is paramount to getting anything done, which is why this 25 year old AA-powered palmtop slams your average Android tablet to the floor.

                      #worldglass #writing #fiction #fantasy #psion

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                      • kroc@oldbytes.spaceK kroc@oldbytes.space

                        You’re probably real tired of these same-same photos but I am still working on the book (https://camendesign.com/nomad) despite less crowing about it. It is very nose-to-the-grindwheel stuff and abating the distractions is paramount to getting anything done, which is why this 25 year old AA-powered palmtop slams your average Android tablet to the floor.

                        #worldglass #writing #fiction #fantasy #psion

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                        amoroso@oldbytes.spaceA This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @Kroc Bring moar photos.

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