Old tech toys available

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Jan 3 01:12:06 UTC 2009


Giles Orr wrote:
> This comes with a USB cradle, a sleeve that holds a single CF card, a
> 16Mb CF card, a charger, and a worn but rather nice belt holster.
> This is the original h3600 model from 2001, and should run Linux well.
>  But: the battery is totally dead so you have to do any experimenting
> with it plugged in.  I replaced a Palm battery recently, cost me about
> $20 in total and an hour of work - I would hope the Compaq battery
> would be as easy.  It runs well and the screen looks good.  I was
> unable to flash it to Linux from the CF sleeve: this should be
> possible, but didn't work for me.  Flashing can also be done with sync
> software under Linux or Windows, but I have a Palm PDA I'm very happy
> with so I have very little motivation to work on it further - I'm not
> as driven by sheer perversity as I used to be.  One photo at
> http://www.gilesorr.com/forOthers/
> 
> Palm Folding Keyboard
> 
> This was my fascination with technology (and the Descent video game)
> getting the better of me.  There's a description of this at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceOrb_360 : it's a two-hand game
> controller with a sphere at the top end that can twist and wiggle in
> every possible direction.  Great idea, but drivers needed to be
> developed for every game individually and it never made much of a dent
> in the market.  Attaches to the serial port.  There are Linux drivers
> (which I never tried).
> 
> Castlewood Orb Drive
> 
> Another good idea that didn't fly.  This is a removable cartridge
> drive that came out after the Zip Drive and took a 2Gb cartridge.
> What sank them was a complete inability to distribute the cartridges.
> Many people (myself included) managed to buy a drive, but ended up
> with only the one cartridge that came in the box with the drive.
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3644  I have an internal IDE drive
> (not the external shown).  I think I have this somewhere ... I found
> the cartridge recently, I'll dig for the drive if anyone's interested.
>  All other items I can lay hands on immediately.

I'm always keen on storage devices for testing when I get time on my 
backup program. If anyone else wants it, let it go to them, but 
otherwise I'll put my hand in for the Orb.

I do still have an old Palm Vx, so if no one is interested in the 
keyboard, I'll snag that, too.

Cheers!

Madi

Madi
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