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Subject: Re: Digital chess clocks

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 09:21:01 09/27/03

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On September 27, 2003 at 10:45:55, Steven Edwards wrote:

>I have noted that my Palm is not the best when it comes to timing accuracy; it
>gains several seconds per day and there is no rate adjustment capability.

Off-topic - but there is, although it's obscure (and it works with OS5):

http://vons.free.fr/palm/index.html#TimeCopy

>Will Bluetooth become ubiquitous?  Apple Computer thinks so, and its track
>record as the initial  popularizer of the mouse, the 3.5 inch floppy (vs the
>5.25 inch), SCSI, USB, and the desktop flat panel monitor gives some support to
>this.

Yes, because it is very slowly getting there after a slow start because of the
massive licence process (appearing in PDAs and phones). Certainly, here, the
hands-free mobile phone without wires tangling everything up is a big seller.

But it took a long time to get USB connections into chessboards; I suppose that
is a bad precursor to anything wireless ...

Alastair



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