Collaborate Disseminate
[Mark B] had a problem. He’d come into possession of an Acer N30 PDA, sans batteries. He couldn’t just throw any old cells in, since the unit expected to communicate …read more Continue reading Emulating The Battery Controller In An Ancient Acer PDA
In a world where the personal digital assistant (PDA) has become yet another retro computing system, it’s always nice when experiencing the software for such platforms can be done in …read more Continue reading PumpkinOS: A Modern Reimplementation of PalmOS for Today’s Platforms
In 1998 the founders of Palm had a bit of a falling out with the wildly successful PDA company’s new owners. They set up a new company called Handspring, which …read more Continue reading Wiring An SD card To A Handspring PDA’s 68K Bus With Only Three SOT23s
Before smartphones exploded on the scene in the late 00s, there was still a reasonable demand for pocket-sized computers that could do relatively simple computing tasks. Palm Pilots and other …read more Continue reading Pocket Computer Reminds Us of PDAs
Back in the 1990s I was fascinated with small computers. I used the HP200LX palmtop computer for almost ten years, which I wrote about back in December. Naturally, the Franklin Rex 3 PCMCIA-sized organizer caught my attention when it was …read more
Continue reading Rex Wasn’t Really a PDA, It was the First Great Digital Rolodex
There was a time, back in the 1990s, when a PDA, or Personal Digital Assistant, was the height of mobile computing sophistication. These little hand-held touch-screen devices had no Internet connection, but had preloaded software to manage such things as your calendar and your contacts. [Brtnst] was introduced to PDAs through a Palm IIIc and fell in love with the idea, but became disillusioned with the Palm for its closed nature and lack of available software a couple of decades later.
His solution might have been to follow the herd and use a smartphone, but he went instead …read more