Sneak peak.

[kroc@oldbytes.space]

Go get it! I could faint from how straining it was taking this from plain-text files to an #ebook / PDF that looks half-way decent!
https://camendesign.com/nomad

—edit: forgot to say, if you’ve been reading the Mastodon posts, the ebook contains a whole new chapter that hasn’t been published here!

(I'll make a more formal toot in a moment to serve as a permanent pin. This one is for the followers)

#ebook #worldglass #writing #writersofmastodon #writingcommunity #ebooks

[kroc@oldbytes.space]

Currently slumming it on the train…

#psion #retrocomputing #writing #writersofmastodon #worldglass

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@Kroc That form factor is a local maximum in mobile system design.

[abramkedge@beige.party]

@Kroc nice. I used one of those and a prototype GPS board to navigate all the way down to the South of France and back. I had some funny looks when people saw a 14" x 10" PCB on the dashboard!

[flafflar@tech.lgbt]

@Kroc wow what is that device

[kroc@oldbytes.space]

@flafflar Psion 5mx from 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5

[pedroleitao@masto.pt]

@Kroc old school is the best school.

[bard@transfem.social]

@Kroc@oldbytes.space Ooh, this takes me back, and not in the expected way. My previous employer did screen repairs on these things and sold self-repair flex kits. I had never heard of them before that; very interesting to get a tiny peek into an older tech I missed out on.

[recantha@mastodon.social]

@Kroc Still a design and functionality classic.

[m0cuv@mastodon.radio]

@Kroc Hi Kroc, thanks for your writing - enjoyed Nomad so far, it’s an interesting concept you’re developing, I look forward to the rest of the story! It’s great that you’re using proper distraction-free tools; I miss my Psion 3c. The epub was fine on iOS, and I also ran it through a narrator app to listen to it while walking.

[kroc@oldbytes.space]

@M0CUV THANK YOU. I haven't had much confirmation that people are actually reading it, lol. I hadn't thought about TTS before, what app is it you're using?

[m0cuv@mastodon.radio]

@Kroc I saw what you were doing, and (being a bit busy) didn’t read the ongoing posts of content, anticipating a more complete version. I started reading the preview epub in the iOS Books app, which rendered it fine (your effort on format conversion paid off) - but most of my non-technical reading gets done when walking my dog so I fed the preview into Éist (non-subscription) - it’s imperfect in some places, but I think that’s its fault, not your epub’s. TTS is hugely imperfect.

[davida@lsbt.me]

@Kroc
I wanted one of those, couldn't afford it though.
Try to find one now

[kroc@oldbytes.space]

A British classic

#worldglass #greggs #retrocomputing #palmtop #psion

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@Kroc Every time I see one of these I truly wish I'd ever been able to have one. These days I need something more modern, but I would have killed to have had one of these back in the day...

[littlealex@infosec.exchange]

@nazokiyoubinbou @Kroc I actually used one in my last two years of university. Before I was using an Apple Newton, but this was quite a pain at an unpleasant place.
The battery was holding up for ages, the keyboard was practical and I was writing a lot of homework, papers etc. on it. Definitely a milestone in computer history!

[bonkers@nerdculture.de]

@littlealex @nazokiyoubinbou @Kroc

I just made one

(www.reddit.com)

[kroc@oldbytes.space]

@bonkers @littlealex @nazokiyoubinbou Have you seen #PocketMage? https://pocketmage.org/ He solves the latency issue by using a small OLED to display the ‘current line’ when typing. It’s a clever device but I wish the screen were wider

[bonkers@nerdculture.de]

@Kroc @littlealex @nazokiyoubinbou looks nice, never heard of it.

The reaction time is not bad, I'd say. I haven't tried any serious writing yet, but it shows itself pretty nicely in tests.

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@Kroc
My grandpa had one.
It taught me how Solitare works (unlike the Windows port).