28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
7:29 a.m.
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 20:45 -0400, John Boffemmyer IV wrote:
Final thing: looking online for replacement Palm
batteries confirms
the poor planning and intent on selling those damned things.
$30-40.00 US plus shipping for a replacement m130 battery via 3rd
party (Palm doesn't even offer it and their tech-help confirmed
that)! For a unit only 3-4 years old, that is about double what the
unit goes for used, in good to excellent condition, on ebay.
For me the "classic" Palm is the IIIxe. Still used standard AAA
batteries, but has 8Meg of RAM. Standard serial port for interfacing
with vintage equipment. The negative part is that it has no card reader,
but 8Meg is still a lot of space on these units.
My IIIxe is in service as a portable disk drive emulator for my Tandy
Model 102 and WP-2 laptops.
Refurbs of this model pop up at Fry's once in a while.
Similarly, the most interesting vintage laptops for me are those that
run on standard batteries. the Kyocerish laptops like TRS-80 Model
100/102/200, NEC 8300, Cambridge Z88, the NEC 8500.
-- John.