Slightly OT but what is the display type in the Sony Clié shown in the IMG_4158.MOV video in the project gallery?
That is exactly the display type I would love to be able to use for a bit of typing up while sitting outside in the sun.
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of interest, and a genuine question, why do you use PDAs when smartphones exist? Surely they do everything the PDAs did but better?
A totally valid question! I did adopt the smartphone for many, many years. My father had a gen-1 iPhone which captured my imagination. At the same time, I've also never really let them run my life. I've habitually always maintained the old (Apple?) hub-and-spoke model where the PC is the core and everything else is a mobile extension of it. I do own some, but they don't get used for much (browser-on-the-go, mostly).…
What are some examples of 1920s tech that you use?
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
A totally valid question! I did adopt the smartphone for many, many years. My father had a gen-1 iPhone which captured my imagination. At the same time, I've also never really let them run my life. I've habitually always maintained the old (Apple?) hub-and-spoke model where the PC is the core and everything else is a mobile extension of it. I do own some, but they don't get used for much (browser-on-the-go, mostly).…
What are some examples of 1920s tech that you use?
Probably not a television, but radio was first invented in the 1920s so possibly that.
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#144This is just insane, and I'm completely blown away by the technical know-how (both depth and breadth) and flippant stuff like:
I also did not find any good emulators for Cortex-M class chips. At this point, I took a two-week-long break from this project to write CortexEmu. It is a fully functional Cortex-M0/M3/M23 emulator that faithfully emulates real Cortex hardware. It has a GDB stub so I can attach GDB to it to debug the running code, It has rudimentary hardware emulated to show a screen, and support an RTC, a console, and a touchscreen. It supports privileged and unprivileged mode, and emulates the memory protection unit (MPU) as well.
Also very interesting is the errata section on the STM32F429 errata section [1], that stuff is real gold for people who do advanced stuff on these chips. Very nice to see that published, I hope it gets picked up by search engines (or, better of course, ST themselves if that hasn't happened yet). There should be serious bug bounty for finding hardware errors like these!
[1]: http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm#_TOC_7dc6f...
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
FreeDOS is exactly what I was describing. Makes sense to use that old software, but not to actually develop for these days. Because you'd be imposing weird anachronistic restrictions on yourself for no good reason.
The C64 demo scene is still alive and well today. Restrictions sometimes are the point.
yea for recreational computing
nobody is trying to bring back C64 compatibility as a practical platform though, they are working on emulators and in the legacy machines themselves
I love the C64 demo scene myself, it was my main introduction to computing back in the day
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
A totally valid question! I did adopt the smartphone for many, many years. My father had a gen-1 iPhone which captured my imagination. At the same time, I've also never really let them run my life. I've habitually always maintained the old (Apple?) hub-and-spoke model where the PC is the core and everything else is a mobile extension of it. I do own some, but they don't get used for much (browser-on-the-go, mostly).…
What are some examples of 1920s tech that you use?
There's less the further back in time you go, of course, but a few 20s examples:
* Westinghouse desk fan. Tanky and moves a ton of air because it has essentially no grill, but I do have it on a kill switch to protect little fingers.
* As @zamnos mentioned, radio. I have several consumer receivers and amateur transmitters from the period. These fall less into the "best" category for obvious reasons, but are more for kids' historical context. I'm exploring arcane combos like a cassette player + tiny AM transmitter + antique radio. Sort of a [mono] stereo with a non-all-you-can-eat music library combined with experiencing the physicality of RF propagation. Also they have standard 1/4" headphone jacks!
* Many books around that age. Tom Swift, Oz, etc.
* A few kitchen gadgets like an electric waffle iron and a hand grinder (I do have modern ones too).
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#147Slightly OT but what is the display type in the Sony Clié shown in the IMG_4158.MOV video in the project gallery? That is exactly the display type I would love to be able to use for a bit of typing up while sitting outside in the sun.
Transflective lcd
It is both transmissive and reflective. With back light, light goes through it. Without backlight, light is reflected off of
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#148Dmitry was a palmos hacker back in the beginning of 2Ks
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a recommended Palm device for modern use? What software do you use on Linux/Mac/Windows to sync the PDA?
Palm Desktop still works fine today on modern Windows, just have to grab USB drivers: https://palmdb.net/help/hotsync-setup On Linux there's pilot-link (command line) or J-Pilot (GUI on top of that). I don't love the UI for J-Pilot, admittedly, which feels a little rougher than Palm Desktop. A Windows VM is also a common approach. For devices, there's a dividing line between 68k and ARM. A 68k will feel more "classic…
Thanks for the detailed guidance!
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#150It would be interesting to run this on a e-ink device one day. I'm pretty sure there are some android e-ink devices that might be up to the task.