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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:02 PM Teresa Wells [email protected]
[peditors] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> So far, I've bought the Life Drive, Clie NR70 and NX70, a Zire72, a second Zire71 and a M130. I'm considering a Handspring and a Palm V. I'm trying to pick devices that were popular or different. And I can use the excuse of writing about it to justify it. When you read the old reviews, they compare it to the new devices at that time. I try to write about useful features and possible uses today. I'll have to write about syncing to modern computers too, which has been interesting. I ran into the 64 bit driver issue with Windows 7 and I still don't see things show up up that Palm desktop. But everything syncs with my G4 iBooks!
I got Palm Desktop to install on Win7, and found the 64bit driver It
worked well enough. The current desktop is a 64bit Win10 Pro machine
but I haven't tried to get it running. I seldom needed to actually
sync even back when I was still using a PDA regularly. Most of what
I wanted to get on the PDA were files I dropped directly onto the
external card, putting the card into an adapter and plugging it into a
USB slot on the desktop.
My first device was a Handspring Visor Deluxe, and I later had a
couple of Visor Pros. The one after that was a Tungsten E because I
needed color, and the Zodiacs were to get a 320x480 screen.
> I was able to get the Life Drive online and the browser isn't bad. But you wind up comparing it to modern devices. It all may be a pointless experience but I am enjoying it. It reminds me about the things I originally liked about Palms in the first place.
One addon to the TX was the Netfront browser. That had been bundled
on Clies, and someone had ripped it from a Clie, removed the device
check so it could be installed on something else , and made it
available for the TX. It was the best thing available for Palm OS at
the time. (By current standards, that's not saying much.) Netfront
was an Access product, and they still supply is for other embedded
devices. https://www.access-company.com/en/products/browser/
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Dennis
> On Sep 25, 2018, at 7:14 PM, dmccunney [email protected] [peditors] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Teresa Wells [email protected]
> [peditors] <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I find some of these devices interesting. And I also thinking that syncing with Outlook has been the death of more than one company :)
>
> I found it quirky but useful. I used Outlook at home as well as at
> the office, for compatibility, and because I needed better mail
> handling capabilities than things like Outlook Express offered. (I
> got, and still get, a lot of email, and needed filtering more
> sophistacted than IF <condition> DO <action> to properly classify it.)
> Outlook at the office was used for the shared calendar as well as
> email, and we lived in it at employers.
>
> I made it a reflex to add anyone I was likely to communicate with
> *again* to my Outlook Contacts folder, and that got hot-synced to teh
> PDA as the basis for the Address Book. I hot-synced in both
> locations, so any entry added in one place got added to teh other next
> hot-sync, and I had redundancy because my contacts list resided in
> three different locations.
>
> > I don't trust this Life Drive at all. First one I bought never got past the boot screen. I replaced the battery, put in a formatted CF card but nothing worked. Got a second one on Ebay. The guy bricked it trying to do a hard reset and canceled the sale. The one I bought after that does work so I can see what it would have been. It was designed to be for business customers. I see it as a great multimedia machine, with lots of room for books and music. Too bad the hardware sucked.
>
> The Life Drive was an interesting idea. I knew a couple of folks back
> in the day who replaced the hard drive with a CF card and were
> delighted with the increased performance and reliability. (Things
> with moving parts break, so replacing a spinning platter drive wish a
> flash memory based card was a win.)
>
> > I've been buying interesting devices on Ebay and have had pretty good luck with the untested ones. I see a difference in how I deal with the Palm.. I look something up and I'm done. There's no reason to do anything else. If I were on my iPhone, I'd probably check my mail or look up something. I'm enjoying spending less time on the Net.
>
> <grin> One of my involvements is eBooks, and I know folks who
> deliberately bought dedicated eBook readers precisely to remove the
> temptation of doing other things while they were reading.
>
> That wouldn't work for me - the dedicated devices were eInk with
> monochrome screens, and too much of what I do requires color. My
> default eBook viewer device is a 7" Android tablet, with a library on
> a microSD card.
>
> But I began reading eBooks on Palm devices, using the open source
> Plucker app that could convert HTML pages to a form viewable on the
> PDA. The initial use was converting documentation I used as a
> sysadmin to a form I could carry around in my pocket, and a lot of
> stuff from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere joined it. I also
> collected an assortment of stuff in Mobipoket format I could read
> using Mobi's Palm viewer app. (Palm was the first platform Mobipocket
> targeted when they began as an early eBook publisher. Amazon bought
> them years back and used the Mobi format for their Kindle offerings)
>
> What other sorts of things have you bought on eBay?
>
> > (And I probably should have written my post under teri.pittman-Re5JQEeQqe9fmgfxC/sS/[email protected] I still haven't gotten around to officially changing my name yet.)
>
> So noted, but we got it.
> ______
> Dennis
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Dennis
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