Palm networking?

I'm in the design stage for a proper version of my sequencer with a friend
of mine who hopes to use it for his final year engineering project next
year. We plan to rewrite the engine, host csound using the csound api, and
come up with a multi-client/server implementation for the user interface.
This would allow mulitple users to work on the same data store ( tested with
midi and really ugly csound code! ) from multiple computers with "sequencer
client" apps. I'm wondering whether it would be possible to write mini
client apps for old PDAs, but don't know much about em. To make it useful I
think I would still need serial out from the pda to buttons and stuff. This
would allow:

custom hardware interface ( buttons etc ) using PIC chips -> serial -> PDA
client -> magic networking I don't understand -> sequencer server

Anyone on here tried anything involving networking and old pdas? Can any of
them they do networking and still give one a serial port? Preferable really
old, ie grab them for less than $20 old. I scooped a gen 1 Palm free to play
with, it's pretty small, but seems to only have one port through the docker?

Seems to me it would be a lot easier to put visual feedback on the palm
screen than on an led directly from the PIC. Plus programming a pic to just
send button pushes to the palm as serial messages would be way the hell
easier than trying to fit a whole client on a pic chip. Though that would be
cool too.

Any suggested web sites would be nice too!

Thanks
Iain

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