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Confusing name but not related to Microsoft’s obsolete Pocket PC platform

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That was immediately where I went. I loved my little iPAQ back in high school.

I could only afford a Handspring Vizor. iPAQs were so high-end.

I totally forgot about the handspring, I had one in high school. Great device!

I still have two that still run. I wonder if the Computer History Museum in Roswell, GA, would take them as donations.

I’ve only used WM5/6 but compared to PalmOS it genuinely sucked so

JFTR, There is SunVox[0] — free modular music studio for Palm OS, Windows CE (Pocket PC & Windows Mobile) and much more.

[0] https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/

I could only afford an iPAQ but I really wanted a Jornada.

I wanted a Sharp Zaurus. They had a pretty good Japanese hacking community.

I had an iPaq and a Zaurus: the quality difference was miles removed: the Zaurus was so much better at everything (for me) but the iPaq and gprs so that was a reason to hold onto it. Zaurus is still working and running Linux today, iPaqs, multiple, are all dead even though used less. Build quality was robust even though it had a swivel screen (which was also great).

I still have a zaurus 860C in the box never used, and I can’t find anything to do with it.

The build quality was amazing, and so was the Silicon graphics display.

Through work I think I had them all. Various palms, psions, iPAQ, Dells. Good times.

I preferred my Casio Cassiopeia.

Yes! I had an E105... What an awesome little computer.

'numpad0: “Confusing name but not related to Microsoft’s obsolete Pocket PC platform”

I suspect such retrospective revisionist reports are designed to precisely do that, render confusion. For instance, according to wikipedia, Windows NT was never designed with the Internet in mind. Whatever that's supposed to mean.

I saw the title and remember how when the battery died it wiped the memory. Brutal

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