Old tech toys available

[Scott Sullivan]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> 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.

I'd actually Like the Palm Keyboard if that's alright, the Vx is my 
mainstay PDA for the next foreseeable while and I think the keyboard 
could be handy.

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Scott Sullivan
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