require input form respected peers :^)

[Pete Turnbull]

On Nov 1 2004, 17:29, chris wrote:
> >Not terrific.  I'd think that any Palm Pilot would be better.  I was
just
> >goofing around with the Cybiko, trying to find interesting things to
so
> >with it.  No backlight doesn't help for reading in bed.
>
> Ok, thanks, so I'm back at square one.
>
> I think maybe I'll buy an old tablet PC on ebay. I can probably pick
up
> an early pentium unit for $100 or so, and speed isn't important for
> reading a PDF.

Another possibility would be a Sharp Zaurus.  They run Linux.  I have
an SL-5600, which I use with Kermit (serial port) and telnet (Ethernet
or wireless) for talking to network switches, but it has a good browser
and you can get a PDF viewer for it.  I've not used the PDF viewer so I
don't know how good it is.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York