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Found in a skip not Apple related
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-08-20 12:09:31 I was lucky today, taking some rubbish to the trash, i did found some freebies in a waste skip: A set of 3 Palm handheld V series ( Two V's and one Vx) I already have several units of the Vx units, but never looked for the V (more or less the same unit, but with less storage) but once again can't resist a free unit. No docking/charging station, but i have several, so no big deal. Another Handheld, HP if i can remember, but i had no way to charge it...so was left, just removed the SD card. A set of PC 100 Sd-ram sticks (can be useful for Powermacs) Two Dell DVD drive, one internal and one external (with the unusual D/Bay USB plug) A 20 Gb laptop Hard Disk. All that stuff was hard to reach, everything was covered by old computer stuff (nothing really nice) In the end, was quite happy to plug everything and to discover that all was working 🙂
Posted by: Cosmo on 2012-08-20 12:25:03 Nice find! You're good with handhelds. I remember that odd dell drive! Remember scraping such years ago (new in a box) due the unusual connector, felt like never going to need one (so far, no need LOL).
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-08-20 12:37:17 Oh man, I had a VX in high school! That thing was awesome! I especially liked using it as a remote control to turn off TVs or for playing spacewar!
Posted by: jruschme on 2012-08-20 17:39:00 The Dell D-Bay is nice if you've got a Latitude D series laptop with no internal drive bay (i.e., Latitude X-1, D4x0). There is also a compatible port on the D-series docks (D-port and D-dock). It will take any D-series module with the exception of the D expansion bay battery (and third-party SATA modules).
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-08-25 09:41:18 @ Cosmo Nice find! You're good with handhelds Yes, not bad :lol: : Only one is missing, another Vx, was bought new ...and was the gift i made to my wife for her graduation. All of them are in working condition, except the IIIx. Anybody collecting handhelds also ? @ jrushme There is also a compatible port on the D-series docks Yes, i have the dock and the port is present, should try soon.
Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2012-08-26 05:45:58 I only really have a Palm TX, Nokia N800, an HP TouchPad I got when they were 99$, and a bunch of Toshiba WM2003 handhelds with lousy batteries. No Palm stacks.
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-08-26 10:10:26 I only really have a Palm TX The T\|X is a great Palm, the better looking of the range, with that nice dark color...and has got wifi also. Should get one someday, but prices are still high.
Posted by: highlandcattle on 2012-08-26 10:51:08 Anybody collecting handhelds also ? Yes, i have the dock and the port is present, should try soon. Yes me, Mostly Psions though also got some dos devices and a an emate 300 you can see some pictures in my flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psionista/page3/
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-08-26 23:48:10 @ Highlandcattle Found your flickr stream a couple of months ago... looking for Psion related information, so was aware already, but nice for sharing.
Posted by: directive0 on 2012-08-27 11:57:45 I had a Palm V, Vx, IIIc, M, M515, and Treo 650, but they have been sold. I own a Newton MP120 now, I really really want an emate, but I only ever see them for > 60 bucks and at that price its hard to justify.
Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2012-08-27 12:35:29 I have been looking at 68k colour Palms and the phones, but the phones can't use WiFi at all (seriously Palm?) and the 68ks are price inflated.
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-08-27 12:51:04 the 68ks are price inflated Should be lucky, most of mine came free or close. Except the pair we paid for (my wife and i) the more expensive one was the M 515...because it was in need of a new battery (but only paid 7 € for a new unit) the Psion itself was a mere 4 € !
Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2012-08-27 15:16:42 Here, anything non-x86 and pre-2000 is pretty pricey.... I've seen Palm m505s locally go for 100 at one time.
Posted by: Cosmo on 2012-08-27 21:16:26 I took a look about Palms sold here. At auction they seem to be around 10-30€ from Palm Tungsten/T2 to Vx's what i've seen.
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-09-03 10:43:45 A relative has given to me a full box of Palm related stuff !! Mainly Palm Cradles (for the Vx / M5xx and Tungsten series) Also in the box 2 Tungsten E handhelds, working and charging right now 🙂 Already looking to give some cradles away.
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-09-09 03:13:36 Two more !! A Zire 31 complete including PSU,stylus and Leather casing, working great...was just 3€: A Qtek 9090, no PSU but managed to find the pin-out and works great, won't keep this one... not impressed by the OS (but at the same time it's a phone too) As no PSU was supplied i get this one for free 🙂
Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2012-09-09 04:43:53 As someone with some WinMo PDAs, Windows Mobile before 5.0 is really fiddly: a hard reset will cause the PDA to start from scratch, like an old Palm. That's Windows Mobile 2003, possibly SE. I hope that thing still has a good battery.
Posted by: bibilit on 2012-09-09 06:18:27 I hope that thing still has a good battery. Pretty good apparently, in the other hand i also collected an Hp Ipaq and the battery is dead, won't work without PSU.
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