PalmOS no more? :(

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 14:43:40 CDT 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).
> 
> Your Palms are silly toys.

My Kyocera 7135 has all the features you listed, except the ability to 
use AA batteries.  And it has high-speed internet access and can act as 
uplink to a laptop.

Peace...  Sridhar


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