Some other GeoBook-related resources
- Meta links - use these to get pointers to reviews etc. not listed here:
- Companies
- Brother's GeoBook Info page with specifications, FAQ, and support locations.
- Geoworks, makers of the Geos operating system.
- STNC wrote the Web browser and e-mail handling.
- Datalight supplies the ROM DOS used to bootstrap Geos and handle some of the file system.
- AMD, manufacturers of the GeoBook's Elan SC300 CPU.
- Breadbox Computer contributed some Geos development experience to the project - in addition, most of the Breadbox applications for Geos will also run on the GeoBook.
- Puma Technologies offers data synchronization software for the GeoBook.
- Perfect Solutions specialize in the use of GeoBooks in educational environments.
- EarthLink Network offers a special Internet access for GeoBook users with a simplified sign-on procedure.
- Buying one...
- Newsgroups
- comp.os.geos.misc is the place where you will find a lot of people with experience in Geos on the GeoBook and other machines.
- Occasionally you will also find requests and discussions in comp.sys.laptops.
- People
- FuzzyLogic's Wintel Free Zone
- James Bearden's GeoBook Page
- Jörg's GeoBook page (with lots of links)
- The competition
- Despite its name, the GeoFox-One does not run Geos, but Psion's EPOC32 operating system. Anyway, its basic idea seems in many ways quite similar to that of the GeoBook.
- The Web.it has been dubbed a rebirth of the Commodore 64, but when you look at the specs and the price point, it has a bit of a GeoBook-for-your-TV with Windows 3.1 on it...