PalmOS no more? :(

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that John Boffemmyer IV may have mentioned these words:
>Sridhar: I could always sell you my incredibly flawed and limited Palm m130...

Altho I hate how Sony has to "Sonyfy" things, my NR70 is one schweet Palm 
computer. People keep asking me why I don't upgrade, and I keep telling 'em 
"because there's no other unit as nice as this yet." Sounds just like my 
Tandy 200... ;-)

Now if only MicroWare/Radisys would port OS-9 to 68K-based Palms, we'd all 
be set -- Mmmm... portable Dynacalc... ;-)

>Also, there used to be a joke/image out there about M$: The next new 
>future: "Windows CE_Me_NT: dumb as a brick and goes about as fast."

I like that... Altho I must say that NT is a lot more useful if you know 
what your doing with it than the other two...

>[Win98 Trim] in the footprint of about 48MB, full installation.

Yea, there's a lot of cruft.

>if the newer XP takes about what- 1GB

If you don't know where to clean the crap -- 3.3G. Just installed it on 
"zFudge" -- my Fujitsu laptop.

And on boot, nearly 200Meg RAM used! Well, I have it (without *that* much 
tuning) using 81Meg on boot.... not too bad, methinks...

After some cleaning and juicing the swapfile - 1.3G. I have more to clean 
yet... but...

>  for fully loaded installation? It probably only truly needs (estimating 
> fairly) about 256MB

About 350Meg. Found this site yesterday:
http://www.litepc.com/
They also have RAM utilization to around 44Meg on boot. $40USD for the 
"Pro" version, there's a lite version for free.

>  $30-40.00 US plus shipping for a replacement m130 battery via 3rd party 
> (Palm doesn't even offer it and their tech-help confirmed that)! For a 
> unit only 3-4 years old, that is about double what the unit goes for 
> used, in good to excellent condition, on ebay.

Didja check ePay for the batteries? I got 2 cheap chinese replacement 
batteries for my Sonys for about $30 shipped; and in the Sonys they're not 
*that* hard to replace.

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com

What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????