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Stardate: 20220707.1001 | |
Location: The Lab | |
Input Device: Palm Treo 680 | |
Software: DataViz Word To Go v8.002 | |
Audio: Work conference call | |
Visual: My work laptop taken hostage by the vendor. | |
Emotional: bleh. | |
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Banging this one out on the Treo 680 keyboard. Default font is hard | |
to read. OK, I enbiggen. | |
It has been awhile since I thumb-typed on the 680. The keys are | |
smaller than my current thumb-typing phone (Unihertz Titan) and it is | |
taking some getting use to. | |
My preference is a hardware keyboard. I'm not a fan of typing on a | |
screen. For me, it feels sloppy. Pushing buttons feel more precise | |
and the screen doesn't get smudged with my fingerprints. Using a | |
stylus is ok when the screens are resistive, but I have not tried | |
recent devices that use a stylus. Maybe the tech is better now and | |
more precise. | |
The Treo 680 was my daily driver for a couple years when it came out. | |
Before then, I used a second-hand 650. I usually carried an auxiliary | |
device, whiich was usually a PDA. I think that was also when I also | |
had a separate work phone that I carried as well. I stilll usually | |
carry multiple devices these days. | |
The screen is so small on the 680 in comparison to the Titan. My | |
typing is mostly done with my thumb nails. It would be hard to go back | |
to the 680 as my daily driver if I were able to. The 2.5G radio would | |
not be able to connect to today's cell towers. At least the device | |
could still run legacy offline applications, which was most of what was | |
developed for this platform. | |
With the way today's mobile apps are developed, I'm not sure if I'd be | |
able to run them after the device is discontinued, like this one. I | |
have already experienced this to some degree and is probably why I am | |
not too fond of today's apps. I guess that is part of the planned | |
obsolescence of things. I think we need more options for aging | |
devices. | |
After I'm done here, I'll beam this over to the AlphaSmart | |
dana.wireless since both have IrDA. Then I'll open AlphaWord on the | |
dana and have it auto-type out the phost to the gopher hole via the | |
Raspberry Pi 2 that it is attached to via USB. It's a kludgey way to | |
phost, but it is also part of the fun for me. | |
UPDATE (from AlphaSmart dana.wireless): That didn't go over so well. | |
It looks like the IrDA sensor on the Treo 680 is b0rq'd. Ended up | |
transferring the file from the Treo 680 to the pa1mOne Tungsten E2 via | |
bluetooth and then beaming the file from the E2 to the data.wireless. | |
UPDATE 2 (from Gemini PDA): Auto-typed the text from the dana to Gemini | |
PDA instead of the pi and will just upload the file to the gopher | |
hole. Feels like a some kind of Rube Goldberg workflow. | |
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