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The guy at the flea market in Reno sold me a Palm Pilot for $7 and showed me his whole system
Last Saturday I was digging through a bin of old electronics at the flea market off Wells Ave when this older dude handed me a Palm IIIxe and said "seven bucks, the battery door is taped but it holds a charge." I told him I didn't even know if my laptop had a serial port anymore and he pulls out this little homemade cable he soldered himself and starts showing me how he still syncs his grocery lists and his fishing log every Sunday. He said he's been using the same one since 1999 and bought three more off eBay for parts, all for under $20 total. Now I'm sitting here with a stylus trying to figure out Graffiti handwriting and honestly it's kind of fun. Anyone else still running one of these, and is there a desktop app that won't fight me on Windows 11?
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danielgonzalez5d ago
Scored a Palm m105 at a garage sale for five bucks a few years back and went down the same rabbit hole. Graffiti actually clicks after a week or two, and the Sunday sync thing is real, my dad still does his whole life on one of those. For Windows 11 the old Palm Desktop is a pain but there's a patch floating around that gets it working, though your mileage may vary.
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