Old tech toys available

[Giles Orr]

Hi Chris, everyone.

Sorry, you just missed the iPAQ.  And at this point everything is
taken(!).  Great to think that all of these will have a bit more life
and usefulness!

Now all I have to do is arrange to meet everyone ...  I'll contact you off list.

2009/1/3 Mr Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org>:
> 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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