Welp, I have spent the morning playing with/exploring my Pomona DM250, and I have to say, it's proving a LOT friendlier as a distraction-free writing sidecar for #scrivenerapp than I'd expected! Makes the advertised features of the Freewrite Traveller look weaksauce, and it's only half the price.
https://artvsentropy.wordpress.com/2023/08/12/retro-writing-15-pomera-dm250/
At some point I should probably write up a comparison between the DM250 and my first portable writing deck computer, 1989's Cambridge Z88 (from Sir Clive Sinclair). 35 years on, the DM250 is half the weight, 120% greater battery life, 1000x the built-in storage, CPU is about 1000x faster, screen is infinitely better ...
And less than half the price (adjusted for inflation).
@cstross
I liked my Z88
Made on-call visit notes on it, imported them into Idealist, printed them on sticky labels. Easier than my handwriting.
Now there's a TCP/IP stack for it, I saw. Might dig it out one day.
Charlie Stross
a fading echo