Obsolete Pocketable Computing

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Welcome to the Obsolete Pocketable Computing!

Everything about early days of pocketable computing, before the world surrendered to Apple/Google duopoly, goes here. Cellphones, PDAs, and palmtops are welcome! Let's celebrate the diversity of mobile operating systems!

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  1. Be kind and respect each other
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  3. This community is dedicated to obsolete pocketable devices, such as cellphones, PDAs, and palmtops that run unsupported operating systems. Early versions of Android and iOS are also welcome. For questions about modern Android and iOS(iPadOS) harware and/or software please refer to related communities.
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Managed to connect and login on a RaspberryPi over a null-modem from my Psion 5mx. (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago by rcmd@lemmy.world to c/pocketcomp@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38242033

Did a live stream yesterday, where I tried to set up a serial tty connection between my Psion and an old RaspberryPi I had laying around. Got most of the way there in an hour, even though I had to spend some time troubleshooting what turned out to be me forgetting to plug the damn cable in. But then got stuck on it not accepting my login credentials, just reloading the login screen. I did some reading today, checking Man pages and documentation, and forum posts. turns out I was missing a "-h" flag/argument(not sure about the correct term) in my serial-getty@ttyUSB0.service configuration file. And that I could keep most of the settings there by default, but without "-h" rtc handshaking didn't work.

feeling pretty stoked!

Anyways I will try to do a complete write up once I'm done with my little project.

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Premium foldable palmtop running Series60 UI on top of Symbian 9.x, one of its kind. This is Nokia E90. (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 days ago by rcmd@lemmy.world to c/pocketcomp@lemmy.world
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Hitting the shelves at the same time as the first iPhone, it offered much more flexibility and boasted many business oriented features carrying the legacy of the Communicator series.

More pictures here: https://museum.tiredsysadmin.cc/SYMBIAN/Series_60/Nokia_E90

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Motorola ZINE ZN5, a hi-end cameraphone from 2008 running Linux (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 days ago by rcmd@lemmy.world to c/pocketcomp@lemmy.world
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MOTOMAGX used to be a quite restricted environment since no official native SDK has been released ever. Nevertheless, some enthusiasts found a way to port SDL apps like MPlayer, ScummVM, ZSNES, and such.

Read more on my personal relation with this device here: https://museum.tiredsysadmin.cc/UNIX/Linux/Motorola_ZINE_ZN5

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Blackberry 9850 Torch (infosec.pub)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by dcooksta26@lemmy.world to c/pocketcomp@lemmy.world
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It lost the legendary keyboard, but the touch experience wasn't that bad.

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Found this in my mail yesterday. (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 week ago by rcmd@lemmy.world to c/pocketcomp@lemmy.world
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It is almost as big as a modern Google Pixel. Can't wait to put batteries into this thing and play around. This is Sony Clié PEG-NR70V/E, a Walkman in the world of PDAs.