found my old Compaq C140 Windows CE pocket computer (1997)
cross-posted from: https://retrolemmy.com/post/29171323
Found my old pocket computer at my parents' house, and it still works!
You could choose between RAM vs storage lol, and of course the storage gets wiped when the batteries die
PSA: my short presentation on history of Linux and UNIX operating systems in pocketable computing landscape is scheduled at VCFB 2025
I hereby kindly invite you all to join me on this little journey, I'll do my best to make it a FUN one!
Head over to https://vcfb.de/ for more details!
Managed to connect and login on a RaspberryPi over a null-modem from my Psion 5mx.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38242033
Did a live stream yesterday, where I tried to set up a serial tty connection between my Psion and an old RaspberryPi I had laying around. Got most of the way there in an hour, even though I had to spend some time troubleshooting what turned out to be me forgetting to plug the damn cable in. But then got stuck on it not accepting my login credentials, just reloading the login screen. I did some reading today, checking Man pages and documentation, and forum posts. turns out I was missing a "-h" flag/argument(not sure about the correct term) in my [email protected] configuration file. And that I could keep most of the settings there by default, but without "-h" rtc handshaking didn't work.
feeling pretty stoked!
Anyways I will try to do a complete write up once I'm done with my little project.
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CommentsPremium foldable palmtop running Series60 UI on top of Symbian 9.x, one of its kind. This is Nokia E90.
Hitting the shelves at the same time as the first iPhone, it offered much more flexibility and boasted many business oriented features carrying the legacy of the Communicator series.
More pictures here: https://museum.tiredsysadmin.cc/SYMBIAN/Series_60/Nokia_E90
Blackberry 9850 Torch
It lost the legendary keyboard, but the touch experience wasn't that bad.
Motorola ZINE ZN5, a hi-end cameraphone from 2008 running Linux
MOTOMAGX used to be a quite restricted environment since no official native SDK has been released ever. Nevertheless, some enthusiasts found a way to port SDL apps like MPlayer, ScummVM, ZSNES, and such.
Read more on my personal relation with this device here: https://museum.tiredsysadmin.cc/UNIX/Linux/Motorola_ZINE_ZN5
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CommentsFound this in my mail yesterday.
It is almost as big as a modern Google Pixel. Can't wait to put batteries into this thing and play around. This is Sony Clié PEG-NR70V/E, a Walkman in the world of PDAs.