{"id":1853,"date":"2020-05-27T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2020-05-27T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T05:38:09","slug":"special-purpose-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/2020\/05\/27\/special-purpose-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Special-purpose tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mid-late 90s personal organizer. The big companies making them were Sharp and Casio, although there were a lot of other ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still have mine, the IR-7000, made by Sega. Looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P3010014-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P3010014-Copy-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1855\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still works turns out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the standard organizer it flipped open and had a QWERTY keyboard. It could store notes, addresses, do calculator functions, time zone calculations, set an alarm and show you a calendar. Plus, a hilarious \"human portrait\" maker along with a simple game you can play with the portraits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If two people had IR-7000, you could use its infra-red communication to exchange messages, but I never came across someone who also had this organizer. The industry was really fragmented toward lots of different organizers and everyone seemed to have a different one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The modern equivalent today would be something between a cellphone or tablet. Cellphone and tablet subsume all of the functionality that these organizers had, but in much more general-purpose ways with fuller software stacks. I can understand why these fuller software stacks are desirable yet in my heart I'm always keeping a space for the long battery life and reliability of this specialized tool for specific things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mid-late 90s personal organizer. The big companies making them were Sharp and Casio, although there were a lot of other ones. I still have mine, the IR-7000, made by Sega. Looks like this: Still works turns out. Like the standard organizer it flipped open and had a QWERTY keyboard. It could store notes, addresses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,134,150,166],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-handheld-games","tag-pocket-organizer","tag-retro","tag-sega-ir-7000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}