PalmOS no more? :(

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
>
> > For me the "classic" Palm is the IIIxe. Still used standard AAA
> > batteries, but has 8Meg of RAM. Standard serial port for interfacing
> > with vintage equipment. The negative part is that it has no card reader,
> > but 8Meg is still a lot of space on these units.
>
> As I've stated before, the Psion Series 5 trumps everything: full
> keyboard, standard memory card slot, touchscreen, backlighting, works on
> two standard AAs for about 40 hours (normal use, no backlighting), serial
> port adapter cable, etc.  Standard software includes web browser and
> TCP/IP suite.  I was able to find a freeware telnet client and, in
> combination with my now defunct wireless internet modem, used to be able
> to read e-mail off my server while driving down the highway (literally).

Oh, and it runs Linux:

http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/

> Your Palms are silly toys.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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