Comments on: Researchers Take the Tungsten T to Mt. Everest

Fifty years after Sir Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest, climbers are achieving more that just getting to the top: they're conducting scientific research under the extreme conditions of the highest point on Earth and are taking their handhelds along.

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Nice

NikMan @ 6/6/2003 11:21:32 AM #

Will they still use Palm when they will step on Mars?

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Midknyte @ 6/6/2003 11:24:45 AM #

Would you want a blue screen on a red planet?

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mashby @ 6/6/2003 11:44:06 AM #

ROTFLMAO! Good one!

Michael T. Ashby
Director
InterPUG
http://www.interpug.com

RE: Nice

NikMan @ 6/6/2003 12:20:24 PM #

I agree, good one :)

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i2oadi2unnei2 @ 6/6/2003 12:21:37 PM #

LOL, I admit thats a good one... I'm no rocket scientist but as far as my imagination goes, "I think" it may work! Anyone care to rebut that statement? *grin*

...|3eep |3eep!!...

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Amleth @ 6/6/2003 12:28:26 PM #

"Would you want a blue screen on a red planet?"

Wouldn't that be a more appropriate comment if they were asking about a Pocket PC?

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jamesgood72 @ 6/6/2003 12:59:33 PM #

"Wouldn't that be a more appropriate comment if they were asking about a Pocket PC?"

I think that's the comment he was making!

-James.

RE: Nice

Be3G @ 6/6/2003 1:40:31 PM #

"Would you want a blue screen on a red planet?"

Blue screen + red planet = purple with rage

;-)

Thomas

Check out the Palm Tungsten|T review at www.comp-talk.co.uk

Tungsten & cold

pgovotsos @ 6/6/2003 3:08:14 PM #

Did they have to do anything to protect them from the cold? I would think that the unprotected screen would freeze.

Panagiotis

RE: Tungsten & cold

Jeffry @ 6/6/2003 3:33:25 PM #

Me too. The screen would crack because it's going to be brittle in extreme conditions. Not to mention the vapour that is forming under the screen since it's reflective...