• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    that was the logic that most of them used and i get it a little bit if you’re on 20+ hour flight when laptop batteries lasted less than 2 hours back then, but the thought of writing code in one of these makes my hand hurt:

    old skool

    i supposed it wasn’t so bad for the python or ruby guys, but they were in the minority at the time. most were writing in java and that seems painful with all of the non-romantic characters that it requires wo an ide; atleast this lini device has full keyboard w curly braces.

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      4 hours ago

      I had to manage with one of these things:

      At least it ran Linux. The one thing the Zaurus had going for it though? Completely readable in sunlight. It was amazing at the time.

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        2 hours ago

        at least w linux, there’s a chance you could use and ide – even if it’s only vim or emacs. lol

        the blackberry guys were literally just using a text editor. it ever ceased to be amazed at the level of dedication those people had to their jobs.