bb010gWoo, time to see how annoying the Dana's Palm Desktop install will be on 64-bit Windows 10 https://a.weirder.earth/media/G4Cehhk9macsIvJyLPE
Unfortunately, Renlearn's drivers don't want to HotSync. Time for digging around with the Wayback Machine until I track down working Win 10 drivers!
#alphasmart #dana #palmos
https://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/discuss/72157637786091336/ recommends installing 6.2 over AlphaSmart's Palm Desktop.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130626005016/http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/32859_en.html doesn't have the file archived.
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Palm-and-WebOS/Palm-Desktop-6-2-2-download-here/td-p/4720180 has a dead Dropbox link.
Searching again, https://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/discuss/72157680530275806/ points to http://aceeca.com/index.php/downloads , which 404s, but their homepage still links the downloads, from which you grab the 64-bit drivers.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/discuss/72157637786091336/ recommends installing 6.2 over AlphaSmart's Palm Desktop.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130626005016/http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/32859_en.html doesn't have the file archived.
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Palm-and-WebOS/Palm-Desktop-6-2-2-download-here/td-p/4720180 has a dead Dropbox link.
Searching again, https://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart/discuss/72157680530275806/ points to http://aceeca.com/index.php/downloads , which 404s, but their homepage still links the downloads, from which you grab the 64-bit drivers.
Holy crap, that AlphaSmart Flickr forum is a gold mine. Finding those drivers took way less time than I was anticipating. https://a.weirder.earth/media/0jTd6PZTKTg8Z5FNIjI
Part of me really appreciates the modern stuff we've got for personal information management, but also a part of me is really attracted to the simplicity of Palm Desktop and the normal Pam suite. You've got a suitable to-do list, suitable notes, and a suitable calendar. The contacts are probably the most lackluster part.
I really want to write a modern Palm Desktop equivalent for Linux at some point, and probably will hook it into Shimmer.
The only thing I'm really missing from Palm OS right now, especially on the #dana, is a good Markdown editor (because Markdown didn't really exist during 4.1's main time frame). It'd be fun to see if I could write it in Rust, for probably the first Rust Palm OS program. :D
I'd also probably have to pair all that with some companion apps on Android for when I want to sync and don't have a computer handy, or want to actually edit my to-dos without pulling out the Dana (until I get an actual Palm PDA). Doing HotSync over USB 3.1 should be feasible, right?
I feel like the only proper ways to edit these `.doc`s would be either Office XP/2003 or probably LibreOffice. Neat little tool, but you can feel how dated it is. (`.rtf` is an option too, but then you're really asking for trouble.)
