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Posted by: BacioiuC on 2020-12-03 08:12:46
Are there any PDA's or Palmtops (excluding the Apple Newton) that can connect via serial to a 68K macintosh? Trying to get a companion and organizer for my retro projects, that I can use when I'm way from the SE. The idea is to syncronize documents between it and the SE itself.
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Posted by: erichelgeson on 2020-12-03 08:34:34
Palm Pilots do! Have one sitting behind me - https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/palm-desktop
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Posted by: BacioiuC on 2020-12-03 08:39:36
Palm Pilots do! Have one sitting behind me - https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/palm-desktop From what I can see, it requires appearance manager and 7.5.3 at least. My 68K mac needs to stay on 7.1 due to accelerator drivers. Was looking at getting a palm pilot until I read about Palm Desktop requirements.
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Posted by: Byrd on 2020-12-03 13:55:07
The Atari Portfolio could be coaxed to run with a special mac cable and software for System 6.
Before Palm Desktop, early Palm OS machines used to run a sync program called Pilot desktop, I suspect that might be for System 7.1 and below.
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Posted by: paws on 2020-12-03 15:31:47
I think System 7.1 was current when the original Newton was released, but I don't know the exact requirements of the Connection Kit.
It'd certainly be the most appropriate, but might be hard to find at a sane price...
edit - haha, sorry, didn't see you'd already dismissed the idea!
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Posted by: paws on 2020-12-03 15:39:04
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/psimac-10
Have you looked at the contents of the second archive in this link? Not sure what "other Psion Mac software" covers.
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Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-12-04 01:53:00
Have you looked at the contents of the second archive in this link?
Good thought on the Psion. They're era-appropriate and also really nice little machines.
Not sure what "other Psion Mac software" covers.
That archive has Psion Link in it, which IIRC works from 6.something up...
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