1.   A man with a palm computer on his belt strides with confidence.

2.   But palm computers are different.

3.   Despite their gee-whiz capabilities, the neatest thing about palm computers is their aid to mobile and compulsive readers.

4.   For another thing, palm computers are not badges of nerdhood.

5.   Its software is being used at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles this week, to put convention information and news on palm computers.

6.   Palm Pilot hand-held computers were substituted for the Newton.

7.   The Snaptrack technology will be used first in a wireless palm computer that the NTT unit plans to introduce in the second quarter of next year.

8.   Phones that double as palm computers, take photos, pay cashiers and play karaoke.

9.   Hewlett Packard has come out with a new palm top computer, the first of its kind to be entirely compatible with MS-DOS and Windows.