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Stardate: 20200130.2127 | |
Location: Kitchen Table | |
Input Device: Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 | |
Audio: anonradio.net | |
Visual: Table, plant, chairs | |
Energy: 60% | |
Mental: 50% + Coffee boost | |
Emotional: Anxious | |
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I decided to bring out the SL-5500 this evening since it has | |
been a several months since I have done anything with it. It | |
does have a thumb keyboard, which I am using, but typing on | |
it is pretty slow. For some reason it seems slower than I | |
remembered from back when it was my daily driver. I seem to | |
recall typing faster on before. Then again, I am typing with | |
my thumbs. | |
It is a shame that I am not using it as much in recent years | |
as I would have liked. I think I will try using it more on a | |
regular basis and try to rotate through them so I don't feel | |
so bad about not using them much. | |
When I brought out the Zaurus earlier today, it had no juice | |
so I charged it for a bit. It booted fine and seemed to be | |
ok. I will probably have to replace the battery sometime in | |
the near future. I should probably run some capacity tests. | |
Man, I really miss this device! I forgot about all of the | |
features I used to love about this device! This device was | |
my first exposure to the Zaurus with Linux on it...the | |
previous ones were more like organizers/address books...an | |
upgrade to the Wizard devices. | |
The first one I saw out in the wild was at one of the old | |
Palm User Group meetings. This guy had a 5500 like this one | |
and also a Palm device. I thought it was strange that he | |
carried 2 PDAs at the time. I asked him about it and he said | |
that he used the Palm as an organizer and the Zaurus as a | |
computer since it ran Linux! Can you believe it?! Then he | |
proceeded to show me the cool features. After that I started | |
looking into those devices and finally got my own. It still | |
amazes me how ahead of their time they were. | |
I am reminded of a book someone wrote awhile back that was | |
written on the Zaurus and featured the Zaurus in the story. | |
It was called Z4CK. I should look for it. | |
Well, enough of thumb typing on this tiny hardware keyboard | |
for now. | |
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