[plug] Linux, Devices and Schools

[Oliver White]

Bernard Blackham wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Oliver White wrote:
> > One of the HP fellows helped out my sister, giving her a cable and a
> > windows app for entering her notes, reducing the data entry time to
> > 4hrs, from an estimated 20. Hooray for them! </plug>
>
> They have to pay for these normally?

Yeah... $80 bucks for a cable. sheesh.

> > I'd like to get a few people with some hardware and software clues to
> > discuss making a few open spec toys.
> >
> > Anyone interested?
>
> Yes, definitely. I think this would be a very worthwhile exercise! I know
> a guy that'd be interested as well - he's very much an idea oriented
> person and was a previous president of ECAWA. One of his posts was
> forwarded to plug recently (Mr. Weber are you out there?)

Great. :-)

> > I'm moving to melbourne in mid december, so it would be good to do it
> > sometime soon. Maybe at a PLUG meet in the near future.
>
> I've exams that end next week - 24th Nov (at last) so after they're gone
> I'm hoping to be at the following monday/tuesday meets.

Good luck!

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Oliver White