Amstrad PDA600 Penpad Review

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Way back in the midsts of time (early nineties) the mighty Alan Sugar set his Amstrad empire to work creating an electronic Filofax. The results of their labour was the Amstrad PDA600 Penpad.
Like an Apple Newton but even worse, the PDA600 offered basic functionality at a terrifying price. Well, until you started trying to get it to recognise your handwriting, at which point it changed from 'basic' to 'useless'.
Shunned by consumers and given away for a song in Tandy, the PDA600 has faded into obscurity. But then I bought one off eBay and made a video about it. Sorry.
On the plus side, you can learn quite a lot about the way plastic degrades over time from this video.
View more game reviews and hilarious* stuff @ / ashens (*Due to the subjective nature of humour, hilarity cannot be guaranteed. Your home is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on a mortgage or other loan secured on it.)

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@BloodyBobJr 9 лет назад

That device is basically a biohazard and he still reviews it...talk about dedication or is it madness?

@drakethen 8 лет назад

+Jere Aho Madness? *long pause* This Is ASHENNS!

@uuu12343 7 лет назад

FearTheKing Well that escalated quickly

@levicassidy9312 7 лет назад

you need some milk

@soundscape3065 6 лет назад

we're talking about the man who eats canned food from the 1960's.

@AnonAmyTheSilly 6 лет назад

This is a man who eats 180+ year old olives to entertain us random internet users, and presumably also to save us the stomachace of doing the same.

@1111-e4p 4 года назад

Apple Newton: “I have the worst handwriting recognition software of all time” Amstrad PDA600 Penpad: “Hdgcjbd moug brgsgrs!”

@DOSRetroGamer Год назад

You win in life

@samholdsworth420 4 месяца назад

Why are you watching an old ass utube video?

@gordy12gg 3 месяца назад

Cause it's funny @@samholdsworth420

@TheLarryburns84 7 лет назад

Whoa.. is he legit a doctor?! I remember the very old videos (in 4:3) where he would introduce himself as Dr. Ashen.. apparently he wasn't joking.

@UltimaJC 5 лет назад

2 years late to the party and you've probably looked this up yourself, forgotten it twice, looked it up four more times, and had this entire video faded from your memory by the cruel sands of time that slowly corrode us all, but yeah he does have his doctorate in psychology, though apparently he's never worked professionally as a psychiatrist from what I've read.

@catoverlords9560 5 лет назад

@@UltimaJC I could be wrong, a but I think for a psychiatrist, a medical degree is also needed? Presumably not a full MD but maybe? I don't know for sure but because psychiatrists usually prescribe medication, they need additional qualifications. Psychology degree holders, even as doctorate (PhD/PsyD) students, can only be psychologists, counsellors or therapists. I could be wrong though and also no one cares but sure lmao why not make a comment anyways

@strangekat2840 5 лет назад

@@catoverlords9560 I have no idea what it is in the US, but psychiatrists in the UK have to qualify as doctors, then specialise in psychiatry. Ashens could work as a clinical psychologist or a therapist, but not as a psychiatrist.

@adamcreed5455 4 года назад

You don’t need to be a doctor to have the title of Dr. For example, you could have a doctorate in maths and you’d be referred to as Dr. Doesn’t mean you have a medical degree or anything

@kevinpatrickcarey3741 4 года назад

PhD not MD i think

@minefilms1122 7 лет назад

"everlasting diary" considering it turns into a gluey sticky mess after 20 years, i dont think it'll last the other 5 billion to 100 trillion years

@Cendoria 6 лет назад

And unsurprisingly, that coating material was used on plenty of other products of the time, not just Amstrads.. Always a good idea to check in on things every, I don't know, 5-10 years, maybe..

@theeoddments960 6 лет назад

Gm steering wheels got gooey after 40 years so I’d consider that a good run when a pda has multiple uses and a steering wheel is used to steer a car. You move it in a circular motion. Sticky bastard.

@ghostunix731 5 лет назад

It was a life savor in college. Young Ghost UNIX was not picky and could not afford a computer

@cynicthehedgehog385 5 лет назад

Well our planet will be sucked into the sun in a few billion years, but the universe will be here long after that. Course it’ll eventually suffer heat death, but that’s just a state of perfect energetic entropy where there are no material entities anywhere.

@IvanovIvanAKrutoi 3 года назад

That diary was about as everlasting as the Neverending Story film series were neverending.

@Cthulu1985 10 лет назад

I found some use for this thing: you can use it to name the characters in your Lovecraftian tale.

@kevinm5940 5 лет назад

Username checks out

@IvanovIvanAKrutoi 4 года назад

Or make new words for the Simlish language.

@arkworthy8594 7 лет назад

Oddly enough, the plural of Stylus is "geese"

@andymadden8183 5 лет назад

@simontay4851 5 лет назад

No it isn't

@liamhill8527 5 лет назад

@@simontay4851 you just got woooosshhhed brother

@IvanovIvanAKrutoi 4 года назад

Then what's the plural of Genesis? "Honk"?

@beautyforashes2022 3 года назад

Ahhh, I get it.. Yay...

@Tomsonic41 9 лет назад

The TV show “Bad Influence” showed this device, and the presenter (Andy Crane) tried to write his name after training it. It came up as “AnGr CrAn0”. Later on he came on and read off the Amstrad pad: “It’s tome for our frast revwaa”. I guess the handwriting recognition was always flawed on this thing…

@MikeRotch11 9 лет назад

Hey, my birthday is on the 84th of Okzember mate.

@sammyvales 8 лет назад

+Mike Rauch mine's on the 142nd of Mezch

@KirbyMario12345_939 8 лет назад

+Mike Rauch 101st of Acksgst here.

@Hogstuff 8 лет назад

+Mike Rauch Mine's on the 900th of Blipblipblip!

@ender_scythe2879 8 лет назад

+Mike Rauch mine's on the 12th of flatulence

@bigdom3810 8 лет назад

mine is the 76th of laflutzoig

@CooperDooper38 3 года назад

"It's user friendly!" He quotes, immediately after putting on protective latex gloves

@Windows4279 10 лет назад

Imagine having a psychology session with Ashens. He says to one of his clients: "Can we wrap this up early, I have tat to review when I get home?".

@RoboticRedstone 10 лет назад

Why would he question "I have tat to review when I get home?" That doesn't make sense.

@Windows4279 10 лет назад

Because he is asking if they can wrap it up early, the tat to review line is a continuation of the sentence, it could be two separate sentences but 1 sentence looks and sounds nicer.

@RoboticRedstone 10 лет назад

Windows4279 What level are you at English? Or how well are you at reading text?

@Windows4279 10 лет назад

Obviously, better than you.

@RoboticRedstone 10 лет назад

Windows4279 Really? Are you sure? What you should of said is "Can we wrap this up early? I've got some tat to review when I get home".

@minefilms1122 8 лет назад

im gonna go have a PLFIDSJPS of HTLKRT on octember 87th 294.6h

@minefilms1122 8 лет назад

+Aaron Gosselin sorry, i wrote that on my amstrad penpad

@echoes28 8 лет назад

+Aaron Gosselin XD lel!

@jetaddict420 8 лет назад

you should've used a palm m8

@lily91109 8 лет назад

"I'm going to draw a man with a nose and a gigantic scary smile" *Distant Mr Noseybonk music*

@ChickenPika 8 лет назад

Alan Sugar will soon run for Prime Minister. What? It would be just as silly.

@peterperry6469 8 лет назад

What you going on about lol

@andrewdoyle6876 8 лет назад

+PeTek Trump hosted Apprentice USA.

@ZzN2CzZ 8 лет назад

i see you everywhere.

@AlisonBryen 8 лет назад

To be fair he's already in the Lords...

@TeamBelmont91 6 лет назад

So, how about them denuclearization talks with Kim Jong Un, eh?

@AndySmallbone 10 лет назад

I worked for Amstrad in the PC department when this was being developed and had one. Was good at the time except when it decided to reset and you loose your data but you could use the pc software to keep the data backed up and transfer it all over again. The worse thing was the coating used on the case could be scratched off really easily

@davidchristoffersen1404 2 года назад

I like that even his credit card titles hime "doctor" :D

@Sheikh_Speare Год назад

Well he does have a PhD.

@cryptyknyk 8 лет назад

I couldn't see a thing, just took your word for it lol

@AnnDVine 11 лет назад

I've not been literally disgusted by hardware since that image of the family of spiders living inside an unused PC. Thanks, Ashens!

@WeirdWonderful 4 месяца назад

Hey, it beats renting.

@mickeymouse12678 7 лет назад

Well at least you could see the screen of the Apple Newton and it didn't turn to goo

@WestTheBestest 10 лет назад

Holy shit, hes actually a Doctor! No wonder why he gets us so well!

@MDPToaster 9 лет назад

Psychology

@DyoKasparov 9 лет назад

Mr.Dr.Professor Toaster *failed

@AuroDHikoshi 10 лет назад

Dr of Pounland Tat and Old Technology I think by now.

@jomon324 12 лет назад

"Or as they put it on, 'Dup duh duh'." *can't talk due to having fallen over in a fit of laughter*

@futurealarms121 9 лет назад

9:32 Am i seeing this correctly? "Dr. Stuart Ashen?" Doctor of what? And WHAT!?

@danielm2142 9 лет назад

+Brenden White If you have a PHD is a subject (in Stuart Ashen's case, Psychology), you are given the title Dr.

@grandbean9031 9 лет назад

+Daniel Moffatt He has a PHD in psychology?Thats awesome xD

@danielm2142 9 лет назад

Iraklis Pazios I know. I guess knowing how people think has worked in his favor.

@HammerBroYoshi 9 лет назад

A doctor of reviewing random tat

@danielm2142 9 лет назад

***** I know. it's strange.

@TheTrohl 8 лет назад

I think that thing might be suffering from latex cancer, which is a common problem for LARPers. Basically, it's a condition that makes latex or rubber deteriorate into a horrifying gluey mess. No one really understand what that reaction is or what causes it, we only know that it seems to be contageous.

@MyHeadHz 7 лет назад

TheTrohl huh, neat

@Graylord88 8 лет назад

Look at how good shape the sofa was in back then.

@AgentTasmania 8 лет назад

+YoungFoxyStoat There's a decent hole in field of view, the springs have collapsed and it's down to 2 of the 5 modular parts.

@missbluey5903 8 лет назад

+YoungFoxyStoat You missed the joke

@drawmywayhome2207 8 лет назад

+MissBluey lol

@nat9380 5 лет назад

wonderful sound strange shape

@bilbo_gamers6417 8 лет назад

9:35 Shit, you have a doctorate? How did your career go from that to looking at broken piles of shit on a sofa?

@dolgy3762 8 лет назад

Isn't that what happens when people usually go to university?

@gmansplit 8 лет назад

Yes, he has a PHD in psychology. That is probably why he is so funny.

@StephenFasciani 8 лет назад

I just edited the wikipedia, kinda surprised it's not there.

@TechniqueSan 8 лет назад

More money earned, less work required.

@RemixedVoice 8 лет назад

gmansplit psych majors are always the funniest. Truly zero fucks given. Completely understand the human condition and are able to laugh about it.

@IamCoalfoot 7 лет назад

"Actually, knowing Nintendo they probably would do that, and you'd control it by sticking your feet in a bowl of rice or something." I heard that, and I laughed because I pictured the next party game involving exactly that and agreed.

@GmodPlusWoW 8 лет назад

£299 for the PDA600? That's roundabout £550 nowadays, isn't it? Half a grand for that old hunk of space junk...

@IlliterateIdiot 8 лет назад

Doesn't Apple charge twice that for the same thing over and over again now? At least the idea was original.

@mickeymouse12678 7 лет назад

JohnRooney Gaming Yeah but at least the current ones are functional. Not that I understand the people that buy them over cheaper options, but you get the point.

@IlliterateIdiot 7 лет назад

Guru Laghima Are they functional? I bought myself a Macbook pro 5 years ago and an iPhone 4s when it came out and they both worked for about 5 days before becoming completely useless. Easiest £2000 I've ever lost...

@IlliterateIdiot 7 лет назад

Guru Laghima No, I am not mentally challenged. I must question your mental stability for asking me that.

@mickeymouse12678 7 лет назад

JohnRooney Gaming I'll take that answer as a yes...

@bengrocott1265 3 года назад

“DR Stuart Ashen” Does he have a doctorate in Tat?

@platinumpokemon8675 12 лет назад

Imagine him having a girl over and doing rude things on that couch and the girl says "have you ever done stuff like this on the couch before?" Ashens reply: "I've done much worse"

@olafpayne 10 лет назад

Issue number 4129? I see you have a Leeds Building Society Platinum Visa credit card.

@thatguyoverthere531 4 года назад

That such an odd thing to be really specific about.

@Jabber-ig3iw 3 года назад

Exactly what you would expect from a company run by a guy who was basically a guy selling shit out of a suitcase on a high street.

@MordecaiTheAwesomeBluejay 8 лет назад

I gotta meet Tonnehnehvikvik in the city of Neew Yovrrvrrkekkek

@tremorist 8 лет назад

Reminds me of the disintegrated drive belts in my old projectors and tape machines.:)

@elephystry 8 лет назад

Care to explain?

@tremorist 8 лет назад

There is a certain material for drive belts that, over the years, turns into smeary goo. When replacing them I also wear gloves. It looks like the penpad is made from similar stuff.

@elephystry 8 лет назад

Ohh!

@Ninjamohawk 8 лет назад

15:50 I'm naming my first born son Dupdeduh.

@lampshade1304 10 лет назад

every time I hear you say "Are you sitting comfortably?"...

@dasherpie 3 года назад

Imagine tapping until u hit 2022 D:

@CoreviZecter 10 лет назад

Dr. Stuart Ashen? what do you have a doctorate in?

@Ryusuta 10 лет назад

He has a Ph.D in psychology.

@Detahramet 10 лет назад

Ryusuta And now he eats cheap shit from poundland and review shitty old electronics for a living.

@AgentTasmania 10 лет назад

deathtamer666 A doctorate doesn't automatically mean you get a fancy job in that field. And this is probably more fun that trying to comprehend the human mind.

@Detahramet 10 лет назад

AgentTasmania Did you hear that 'whooshing' sound? That was the joke going of your head.

@AgentTasmania 10 лет назад

deathtamer666 I don't see anything that constitutes a 'joke' per se.

@LiamDoesTech 6 лет назад

Ugh, i collect phones and it sucks when that rubber coating does that. Ive gotten phones which that has happened and it is a pain to get that crap off

@tacaloking4 9 лет назад

oh i get why it cant get your writing right your a doctor nothing can read there hand writing

@KirbyMario12345_939 4 года назад

I think I once had a teacher called Bueuey Mckggnweeuuhkgwuehhp, but I had trouble pronouncing his name.

@EffendiChung 7 лет назад

One thing that puzzles me is, who in the bloody hell thought about that disgusting rubber coating? Its not giving any device a good feel, it disintegrates into a horrible gooey and rubbery mess, and tends to smell terribly after some use. That shit should be banned.

@trashdemon570 6 лет назад

I bought an old webcam at my local thrift store a few months ago. It was also brand new, and still sealed. When I opened it, it had some weird rubbery goo stuff covering it. I couldn't help but think of this video when I noticed that.

@JamesR624 10 лет назад

- Undercut the competition. - Had features the competition didn't. - Had horrid hardware quality. - Premiered in Note like devices. Huh. Amstrad must have been the precursor to Samsung.

@MrEthan043 10 лет назад

"-Had horrid hardware quality." Yeah, I have only ever seen 2 Samsung phones with cracked screens, and yet a lot more iPhones have shattered glass.

@ThereMayBeLions 10 лет назад

***** Its actually the precursor to Lenovo

@aeternalis 10 лет назад

Samsung's durability is miles better than apple's.

@ThereMayBeLions 10 лет назад

Joshua Smith Case in point, the new Iphones are bending inside of their owners pockets. Explain that, *****

@MrEthan043 10 лет назад

***** Maybe you should look at some of their new products before saying that.

@HotelBrando 13 лет назад

When you're meeting HUGUGUHUH when you go down to the VERTUVUTVUTVUT for a glass of KRKRIIGEHOOMFUH on the 48th day of BLOOBLIPBLIP

@Tomsonic41 7 лет назад

Remember that guy in Dastardly & Muttley who speaks really strange? Maybe he was reading his lines off one of these PenPads lol

@maverickhistorian6488 Год назад

His name was Clunk. 😁

@IvanovIvanAKrutoi 8 лет назад

I don't know why, but all the stupid noises that Ashen makes when he pretends to speak in Amstrad Penpad handwriting language make me chuckle.

@charly88888888 8 лет назад

Weird, I live at 17 Bum Road

@MatthewJamesMJ 4 года назад

You want to see the screen? Your asking too much sir..

@piratebeng 10 лет назад

the plural of stylus is "I don't give a shit" the more you know!

@mason2007 3 года назад

Well sometime I should 3tof TKTZ vTgdy before I don't go insane

@josephparker646 7 лет назад

Ashens Tandy is Radioshack. in 2000 they dropped the name Tandy altogether.

@gwishart 5 лет назад

Only in the USA.

@Bennjammin 4 года назад

"Less than just an organizer" those little tidbits are are why I watch

@FennecTECH 8 лет назад

it doe shave several killer apps simply using them will result in a verry grusom death

@Gestersmek 6 лет назад

Speaking of gruesome, look at that syntax.

@TheJoebus666 6 лет назад

I didn't know you could type comments with the Penpad's handwriting recognition

@ourhandsaretied 3 года назад

Yet more proof how dreadful a businessman Alan Sugar is

@kaylaburney3789 10 лет назад

My granny got me one when I was 4 for either Christmas or my birthday which is the worst thing she's ever bought me competing with a princess playset and plastic cookies :p

@DOSRetroGamer Год назад

Bless her. Did she confuse it with a Gameboy?

@gwivongalois6169 2 года назад

There was a reason Palm made their users learn Graffiti (2) instead the other way around. And that was Hdgcjbd moug brgsgrs!

@HayabusaTaichou 10 лет назад

It's called perishing when rubber goes like that.

@davidelrick3131 2 года назад

I remember seeing home catalogue company using this way back company no longer exist probably lost all customers details lol

@mr.noseybonk8716 2 года назад

2011 is almost 11 years ago.... Christ

@Sheikh_Speare Год назад

12 years now 😞

@WeirdWonderful 4 месяца назад

Thirteeeeeeeeen

@FerHivore 3 года назад

The screen on this thing is so terrible that this video is practically a podcast.

@boopdoop991 9 лет назад

This is worse than the apple newton!

@drumF_4200 9 лет назад

Darude - Sandstorm

@stedmangg 9 лет назад

Даниел Друмев Gtfo

@drumF_4200 9 лет назад

***** Sarude - Dandstorm

@stedmangg 9 лет назад

Даниел Друмев Gtfo

@dantheman1547 9 лет назад

Hey nice profile pic bro

@shinymetroidX 12 лет назад

Oh man, I lost it when he drew the large-smiled man.

@SunburntRock89 9 лет назад

DR Stuart Ashen?

@DFxAngelz 9 лет назад

PhD in psychology

@Tristantoboss 13 лет назад

Its really refreshing to find someone on youtube who reviews useless crap, i genuinely mean that to. SUBSCRIBED

@SolidSonicTH 8 лет назад

This is the only video I've seen on this channel that can just be listened to because you can't see anything he's presenting.

@elephystry 7 лет назад

SolidSonicTH Do you even have a monitor?

@awawawawase 7 лет назад

conduit122 he's talking about the reflective screen

@elephystry 7 лет назад

Yes, I imagined it'd be quite hard to watch a video on a reflective screen.

@lfricmunuc4534 5 лет назад

Why do I imagine a Niles-Crane-like businessman roaming around New York with one of these in 1993.

@RattPoison80 8 лет назад

What a crap company name. All I can think of is the slave ship Amistad

@floatpvnk 2 года назад

Love how we can't see a thing out i de of Stuart's head

@Arrowdodger 2 года назад

I wonder, 10+ years later, if the coating would have been in even worse shape.

@MattisProbably 12 лет назад

its biodegradable! thats why its falling apart/turns into goo! :D what an amazing piece of tat^^

@geoserenity 8 лет назад

i think the british version of the apprentice was the original version, like has been the case between uk and us...*coughtopgear*

@IlliterateIdiot 8 лет назад

Well I never had anything against US Top Gear, but I did prefer the original series. (The one with Clarkson, Hammond and May.) But since Piss Evans took over, I have preferred the US one. A lot less cringeworthy and boring.

@geoserenity 8 лет назад

JohnRooney Gaming don't worry, he's out

@geimzz 8 лет назад

+JohnRooney Gaming I'd love Rowan Atkinson (CBE) on TopGear

@geoserenity 8 лет назад

theALEKY or jimmy carr. Actually, forget that, he'd brake all the cars...

@IlliterateIdiot 8 лет назад

Geo Belmont Oh. I know that. I think, like theALEKY said, Rowan Atkinson should be the next Top Gear presenter.

@KenanVideos 13 лет назад

Lmfao this is my first video I've watched of you, subscribed, this is piss funny.

@adronnmusic 9 лет назад

First 4 numbers of his credit card: 4, 1, 2, 9 4+1+2+9=12 1+2=3 3 sides on a triangle Ashens is illuminati confirmed

@InfinityMcBloon 9 лет назад

Your username is Joey Cirrito Cirrito has 2 letter i's Illuminati has 3 letter i's There are 3 sides on a triangle Illuminati confirmed

@ViewbobTrue 9 лет назад

InfinityMcBloon the illuminati's name is Illuminati which you said Illuminati cunfirmd'

@InfinityMcBloon 9 лет назад

Sam Spiwak Your username starts with the letter S The word "sides" starts with the letter S There are 3 sides on a triangle Triangles represent the illuminati llluminati confirmed

@ViewbobTrue 9 лет назад

InfinityMcBloon HOLY SHIT I'M THE ILLUMINATI!

@InfinityMcBloon 9 лет назад

Bacon has 5 letters 5-2 is 3 There are 3 sides on a triangle Triangles=illuminati Illuminati confirmed

@toxy3580 7 лет назад

9:40 anyone want the last 4 numbers of Ashens expired card?

@jrauch6 10 лет назад

9:35 Dr Stuart Ashens???

@kaylaburney3789 10 лет назад

He has a phd in psychology

@SouthwesternEagle 10 лет назад

Kayla Burney He has a Ph.D in Psychology, and yet he works at a job centre answering telephones, and reviewing tat on RU-vid?

@SunnyDispsition 10 лет назад

SouthwesternEagle Yes.

@DQBlizzard_ 10 лет назад

SouthwesternEagle That what he wants you to think... *Dun* *Dun* *Duuuuuunnnnnnn*

@colinspeirs 7 лет назад

I got a loan of one of these in the mid 90s. my Psion had been nicked and I was looking for a replacement for writing. this wasn't it. it was useless. the idea was sound. My Palm IIIxe later on was great. in fact U'd have liked it slightly bigger Only thing I'd say about this review is the comparison to filo fax size. Dr Ashens has forgotten how insanely stuffed Filo faxes could get. If this bit of kit actually worked then it might have been worthwhile but no

@tawmifm 9 лет назад

Ashens is a doctor!?

@dylc413 9 лет назад

he's a psychologist

@tawmifm 9 лет назад

Dylan Collins Well, that explains why he's a good comedian

@gmansplit 8 лет назад

A doctorate in Psychology.

@clonecam117thefilthycasual6 8 лет назад

gmansplit We get it dude, you don't need to paste that reply on EVERYTHING

@gmansplit 8 лет назад

clonecam117 The Filthy Casual I want to make sure people see it.

@SvengelskaBlondie 3 года назад

One stylus, multiple "I don't give a ****"

@ComputerGuy2048 10 лет назад

DR Stuart Ashen?

@xvalley8512 10 лет назад

Yes, he is a doctor of psychology.

@jaysinha0 2 года назад

What a load of junk! I am glad that I bought a Psion 3a instead.

@Gazms-ep 9 лет назад

Hmmmm, Dr Stuart Ashen.

@12helloguy 9 лет назад

He has a PHD

@HenryGreenEngine3 11 месяцев назад

Threetof Tptz Vtgtgee is a great Dwarvish name

@taylorrose5280 8 лет назад

ASHENS PREDICTED THE WII U

@Gestersmek 8 лет назад

+Taylor Rose The Wii U was revealed at E3 2011, 2 months before this video went up.

@IvanovIvanAKrutoi 4 года назад

@@Gestersmek Besides, it didn't have CGA graphics, and you don't control the games by sticking your feet in a bowl of rice, so that comment about Ashens predicting the Wii U is 100% truth failure.

@FantomLightning 11 лет назад

He would certainly be better than one I had to talk to. Who's only reply to me was "How does that make you feel?" I felt like I was in Freaky Friday. Along with the fact he had the overly happy (on creepy levels) of a serial killer...

@TheZaz969 9 лет назад

Didn't know ashen was a doctor.

@dylc413 9 лет назад

Well, psychologist

@demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890 9 лет назад

TheZaz969 Anyone with a Ph.D gets a ''doctor'' title despite not working as an actual doctor.

@TheZaz969 9 лет назад

What is his phd in though, tat?

@dylc413 9 лет назад

TheZaz969 psychology

@TheZaz969 9 лет назад

Interesting

@ppm1n 13 лет назад

"What is the multiple of stylus? Oh yeah, I don't give a shit!" Favorite quote from your videos other than "LIQUID FILTH"

@phyrricocean7910 9 лет назад

A Dr.! If I may ask, what is your doctorate in?

@travdump209 9 лет назад

Psychology, apparently.

@Nagifan7496 9 лет назад

Hard Knocks

@Sab3na 9 лет назад

Psychology, according to wikia

@phyrricocean7910 9 лет назад

+Sab3na Lol he has a wiki page? Dang

@cheaplife2320 4 года назад

use a bit of gasoline to was its surface if will desolve the coating

@RoboticRedstone 10 лет назад

£299?! Geez! That's more than my smartphone (Btw my smartphone is really good! It's the Sony Xperia SP if your wondering)

@NonsensicalSpudz 10 лет назад

it was 299

@RoboticRedstone 10 лет назад

Omg are you stupid?! I said 299 Look! Well..You won't be able to since your blind

@NonsensicalSpudz 10 лет назад

no not your phone the PDA was 299 when new

@RoboticRedstone 10 лет назад

I know!! Idiot! That's what I said! Why are people so dumb that they can't read properly?

@NonsensicalSpudz 10 лет назад

why you so angry Geez, no need to call me an idiot.

@autumnmatthews3179 4 года назад

Back then you could have used a Psion. Thing is they still work perfectly today

@hk4124 9 лет назад

I can't imagine how pissed I would be if I got this thing for $300 and the next week it was down to $50.

@realdonjoe 12 лет назад

thanks for that ! I found my PDA 600 few weeks ago in a moving carton, and sticked on it for the next hour. Now i have proof for my guess thats the crappy plastic is the reason for that slimy sticky layer on that slimy crappy gadget. The writing recognition is, if remember right, for a extra method of writing, kind of a "t" looks like "7", "F" like mirrored 7, similar to "graffiti for Palm.

@butternutsquashpie 11 лет назад

that's amazing memory for something pre 1995 and the size of a notepad

@troyeriksen6636 9 лет назад

Im getting fluff on my sofa ~Ashens

@KyuubiNaruto41 7 лет назад

I get the feeling you don't actually calibrate the Penpad to YOUR handwriting. That whole startup sequence you are supposed to copy how the Penpad has it for the numbers and letters so you know how to write it for the machine to pick it up properly. Recognizing your handwriting would be way too advanced for something that you said was made in the early 90s.

@nihongophileist 13 лет назад

I am embarrassed to say that I programmed this "thing" for a living for a independent software company. I used to create various programs for it - one of which was for estate agents to draw plans on o_0. I also go the thing to send faxes using a small portable modem and a cable - can you imagine it - very convenient! The machine could be programmed using Z80 assembler code and Amstrad provided a API for all the handwriting bits I didn't realise the machine deteriorated so quickly!