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Originally Posted by jswinden
I've still got my Palm IIIx as well as its CDROM installation disc and charging cradle. Unfortunately the last time I tried to turn it on, a few months ago, it was completely dead. Even with fresh alkaline batteries it was still dead. Perhaps a new internal backup battery might bring it back, but I haven't checked that. I'm not sure why I kept it all these years, but I did. I also have an older HP organizer that does still work and it ran some proprietary OS that pre-dates the Palm OS. I probably still have them because I threw them into a junk box and forgot about them, and being an electronics pack-rat I kept my junk box.
I don't think I ever read eBooks on the HP organizer, it never worked very well BTW. But I definitely read a lot of eBooks on the Palm IIIx and later models, as well as a couple of Clié models, and a Treo with WM OS. Kindles were very cool until the screens on smartphones and tablets surpassed them. Then I returned to my earlier roots of reading on LCD screens.
And I seem to recall when MR changed its name to MR, or at least changed its logo to a PDA looking device with a wheel. I think they wanted to update the forum to better reflect the mobile devices that were becoming all the rage. I seem to remember a contest to create the new logo. I'm rather fuzzy on the details, so perhaps some of the old-timers from here can enlighten us.
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Nice to know, I'm not the only one that has a junk box.
Of course I also have many old kitchen gadgets.