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HP 360LX review and comparison

Posted on August 8, 2018 by admin

A comparison of the dana.wireless by Alphasmart and the 360LX by Hewlett Packard.   These two systems came out about 4 years apart, so not a completely fair comparison, but let’s try anyway. So, what is it like to use … Continue reading →

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Incoming

Posted on August 2, 2018 by admin

On a whim, I picked up a 360LX Palmtop PC.  It is in my mailbox right now, waiting for a pair of AA batteries.  It is a Windows CE 2.0 based device, and I always loved the palmtop form factor.  I’ll … Continue reading →

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dana.wireless Review

Posted on September 22, 2017 by admin

dana.wireless by AlphaSmart My latest Palm the device, the dana.wireless Palm Powered!  This is a total departure from a typical Palm device.  It features a full sized keyboard and a screen almost 11 inches across!  The dana is actually a … Continue reading →

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Palm LifeDrive

Posted on September 21, 2017 by admin

The Palm LifeDrive was a in interesting concept.  It was a Palm designed to store all of your data.  When plugged into a PC, it could appear as an external drive, to store everything.  The unit shipped with a 4gb … Continue reading →

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Useful stuff and possible revival

Posted on September 21, 2017 by admin

I recently picked up a dana wireless, Palm based word processor, and I really enjoy using the device.  I am also a Palm junkie, I have 4 (four!) Palm based devices: Palm IIIe, Running Palm OS 3.1, not upgradeable. Palm … Continue reading →

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Still Around

Posted on May 13, 2016 by admin

As you can see, this site is still running.  If you want to check out some of my retro projects, head over to http://retrogame.cyberphreak.com/ It is a collection of portable and console based retrofitting of Raspberry Pi computers into dead systems … Continue reading →

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Low Cost Computing, Sweet Raspberry Pi

Posted on June 10, 2015 by admin

Low Cost Computing, Sweet Raspberry Pi I decided to revive this site, I feel bad about not updating since the departure of my Zaurus SL-6000. I was tempted to turn it to a Palm site, but that is a pretty … Continue reading →

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Still around

Posted on April 28, 2015 by admin

Believe it or not, I still maintain and update this site.  I was thinking to add Palm (I still have a working Palm III) applications and my thoughts of the current world of portable computing.  In the meantime, the feed … Continue reading →

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Migration Complete, sort of

Posted on March 23, 2013 by admin

Had to move my old Zaurus site to MySQL 5, the old one was running on a really, really old version of WordPress, so I was not able to properly move everything.  But, at least the feed was unaffected.

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Zaurus Feed

Posted on October 28, 2011 by admin

In case anyone in interested, I created a zip file of the Zaurus feed.  It is big, but it has everything I have ever installed on my Zaurus. You can also add http://cyberphreak.com/zaurus/feed/ to your Zaurus package manager, if you … Continue reading →

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