Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Tom Zuchowski (tzuchow@attglobal.net) wrote:
: Reread my message. Resizing huge images may not be a common activity in most
: businesses, but big, high-resolution screens are a proven productivity
: enhancer. Anyone who has used Excel at 640x400 and then moved to a 1280x768
: desktop on a big CRT will know exactly what I am talking about. I can think
: of lots of similar examples. According to studies I have read about, savings
: of as much as an hour a day can be realized.

...Which is why the P166 at work has a 1024x768 screen on it.  The Windoze
applications on that one clutter the screen with so many toolbars and
other bits of crap that I actually get *less* useable text space on that
screen than I get on the 80x24 text screen on the adjacent IIgs.  Trying
to use the Paradox ObjectPAL edit windows in such a way that you can see
what you're doing around all the other windows and toolbars is remarkably
similar to trying to use the word processor on a Psion Series 3c with the
font set to 'large'...

(The Psion 3c is a very nice palmtop, very well optimized.  Most Apple ][
folks would love it, particularly 8-bit Apple ][ folks.  Pity Psion has
discontinued it in favor of the more-WinCE-like Series 5 and Series 7...)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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