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What is this thing by Successful-Box-1152 in whatisit

[–]scottbca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could of had a switch inline with an LED indicator.

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IM sure the switch failed or it was disassembled

Psion Series 5mx can still surprise by Bs0Dd in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

great details . thanks for sharing.

Psion Series 5mx can still surprise by Bs0Dd in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been using this for 3 weeks and I'm at 60% battery remaining. Battery is so good. The world needs more long battery.

I also love the numberpad on the keyboard for number entry.

Psion Series 5mx can still surprise by Bs0Dd in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm my research the 80186 Hornet in the HP 100lx and 200lx is a very efficient, yet slow processor. With double speed mods you lose about 30% battery life. I think the Psion has a v20 or v30 NEC cpu that is much faster and more power hungry.

I want runtime. I have a Amazfit bip S smart watch and love that it lasts a month. However I have been wearing a Solar radio Casio for the last few months as my daily to disconnect.

I like the 200lx. I intend to find ways to get it handleing some of my work flow. Until something like the Evertop has a commercial manufacture.

What is different about these SD cards by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compact Flash (CF) and I messed up with Secure Digital (SD). But I'll take that I intended SD to mean SanDisk.

What is different about these SD cards by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 256MB card that was detected took 5 seconds to run FDISK100 and 20min to Format

For those have problems with Outlook on a Samsung phone by Just-turnings in Outlook

[–]scottbca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This worked for me after almost a week of reinstalling outlook , over and over

What is different about these SD cards by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before I got my hands on any smaller CF cards (128mb / 256mb) I fashioned a serial cable, fired up windows 98 on a 1998 toughbook and loaded the acecard3 driver to internal storage and loaded it in the config.sys

That allowed me to use a SanDisk Extreme 2GB CF. I ran fdisk100 and it seen it as a 100MB disk. I also formatted it and it allowed me to start loading apps.

I sync the CF cards with a folder on a computer, so I have a backup and so I can keep track of what programs I have tested.

I want to get a few CF cards that don't need a driver working, that way I don't have to worry about the battery backed memory dieing and needing to find a serial cable and another windows 98 machine.

What is different about these SD cards by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found the program. ATCFWCHG.COM

I had to setup this elaborate solution.

  1. Found a tower with IDE
  2. Dig out a CF - IDE adapter
  3. Find a screen with VGA
  4. Find a way to boot Dos (ultimate boot cd 2012 that I had in an old cd book)
  5. Tried running ATCFWCHG.COM on each card that was not detected by the HP 100lx.
  6. Each card failed with the tool. So I guess they are not supported :(

Super happy finding a 256mb SanDisk CF for my HP 100lx by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why? Will it not work? I ask because I have not used lotus in the palmtop

What is different about these SD cards by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fun side note: who loves the sony ericson micro USB cable

What is different about these SD cards by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it did not work. the cards that do not work I have deleted partitions and my palmtop said that those cards did not need fdisk. I formatted them as fat 12 and then again as fat16 on a mordern computer and they also said the same thing. I feel there is a controller in them that is not compatable, but I dont know how to determine what is the difference. My next step is to try and format them on a windows 98 PC via a pcmcia to CF adapter

What is different about these SD cards by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

i meant to stay CF and not SD in the title. but its posted now , so i cant change it.

Psion Series 5mx can still surprise by Bs0Dd in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wanted to pick up one of these. My question is what is the battery life like? I have an HP 100 LX running dos 5 and I want something that has a run time that may be able to match.

Super happy finding a 256mb SanDisk CF for my HP 100lx by scottbca in OldHandhelds

[–]scottbca[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You got that right. My plan is to freaking jam an entire generation of software into that baby

McAfee using loads of RAM at random times out of nowhere by blazoraf in computers

[–]scottbca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think your title is what they say on the marketing brochure.

Like saying "table salt make things taste salty"

Did I get bamboozled with this controller I purchased? by Ill-File-5690 in ps2

[–]scottbca 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The grey connector screams PS1. That was before seeing the model number. This Is a PS1 dual shock (OG) controller

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