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by meaty 4933 days ago
You mean Handspring Treo - yes I had one - a 180g...

No awesome here if you ask me. It is packaged in shiny and shipped out of the door.

Forrest Mimms books were crap to be honest. They were recipe books with very little practical use past stringing together hacks and full of all sorts of errors. Sort of a precursor to this.

I think you were brought up with the electronics assembly culture, not the electronics design culture. The two are very different.