Old tech toys available

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Is the iPAQ still available? Sorry, if I'd been following the thread 
more closely I'd know...

Chris

Scott Sullivan wrote:
>
>
> 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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