tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 06 14:37:02 1999
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Re: Palm pilot advice
ja pil'o': 'Inmey bIhtaHqu' janvetlh!
"William H. Martin" wrote:
> I have owned most models of the PalmPilot:
>
> I bought a PalmPilot 1000, then upgraded to 1MB RAM.
>
> I broke the screen and sent it back for repair.
>
> I broke the screen again and decided to get a Personal PalmPilot
> so I could get the backlight. It only had 500K RAM, but I
> figured I'd scavenge the RAM from the 1000. Unfortunately, the
> system ROM is on the same card, so if I swapped in the 1MB card,
> I lost the OS that knows how to turn on the backlight. I endured
> low memory for a while.
>
> In Denmark, I smashed the screen on my Personal PalmPilot and
> searched three cities before finding what may be the only
> PalmPilot in Denmark. It was a Professional PalmPilot and it
> cost about $100 more than in the US. I bought it anyway.
>
> Back home, a coworker had a Palm III and changed his mind about
> wanting it. As a UNIX geek, it didn't quite suit his needs. He
> made the deal sweet enough that I couldn't turn it down.
>
> When I got back from qep'a', I got a new laptop because my old
> one was old, and... well, I hurt it. While I was setting up my
> new laptop, I knocked my Palm III off the table and while the
> screen didn't crack, it also never came on again.