Comments on: Live from QuickPAD

By: Angie

Angie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:00:18 +0000

Can you please email me! My friend has one of the Quickpad IR models and cannot upload text! She's has restricted mobility so messing around with serial ports isn't too helpful.

I'd really appreciate any advice you could offer.

By: flying squirrel

flying squirrel — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:23:18 +0000

Mine has a compact flash slot and USB, making it marginally more useful. Plus, they're both programmable in BASIC.

I paid $100 for mine, via the magic of eBay. I wouldn't have paid MSRP. I think it's worth what I paid. I'd get an old machine for distraction-free writing for the kitsch value, but this thing is quite a bit more convenient.

By: Hwan

Hwan — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:26:53 +0000

Wow.. that seems terribly expensive for what is essentially a TRS-80 model 100. And they both RS-232 ports!

By: flying squirrel

flying squirrel — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:55:19 +0000

Yes. A Dongle.

Unfortunately the narrow jargon file definition seems to have won out on Wikipedia (Eric Raymond has a lot of fans). I, however, take it to mean something a bit broader than that.

I consider a dongle to be any distressingly inelegant piece of hardware that either juts out or dangles limply from your computer.

So your initial impression wasn't actually that far off. ^_^

By: tinkerer

tinkerer — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:59:56 +0000

A dongle?

A proprietary dongle?

Oh, dear...

Do you have ANY idea how that sounds to those of us not-quite-brilliant-at-computer folk?

Perhaps I'll tell you...as soon as I pick myself up off the floor from laughing...

(ok, ok. I'll go google that now, so that I won't be so stupid...) (a DONGLE? What the heck?)