Old tech toys available

Colin McGregor colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sun Jan 4 17:10:01 UTC 2009


On 1/4/09, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

My usual procedure when I have some tech. toys that I want to pass on
to others is to tell folks that they have one or two options:

- They can come to my place at a mutually acceptable time,
- If the item(s) are small enough to be EASILY carried, then folks can
meet me at one of the meetings I normally attend (GTALug, Unix
Unanimous and/or NewTLUG).

Colin McGregor

> 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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