Re: Why no Apple II retro devices?

[Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>]

Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> writes:
> Speaking of an Apple II retro device, how about a wirst watch version
> of the Apple IIe, complete with LCD screen?

I wrote:
> Already got one.  The Fossil (or Abacus) Wrist PDA.  It didn't run
> Apple II software when I first got it, but that was easily remedied.

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> writes:
> Cool!  What emulator do you run,

PalmApple:
    http://palmapple.sourceforge.net/

> and how do you navigate the Apple II
> screen on a 160x160 display?

Not very well.  I haven't even tried graphics programs.  Text uses
a 4x6 font.

I mostly use PalmApple on a Treo 650, which is rather more suited to it.
I only have the Wrist PDA as an emergency backup PDA storing my phone
list.

These days, instead of wearing the Wrist PDA I usually wear a nixie tube
watch made by David Forbes of CathodeCorner:
    http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/index.html

It doesn't run an Apple II simulator, though.

Between the Wrist PDA, the nixie tube watch, and an HP-01 calculator
watch, I've got three of the biggest, nerdiest watches around.  I need
to get another arm like Zaphod so that I can wear all three.  (I'm from
a little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so
amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty
neat idea.)

Eric