I personally had the 690, which was suprisingly usable (and probably still is), even with its 133MHz CPU and 32MB of RAM. Finding and porting software was, even in ~2006, especially hard, given the hardware constraints and unique screen aspect ratio (640x240 resolution).
I still have the page for the distribution up here[0], and a software repository set up here[1], in case the author (if they see this) or anyone else that has any of these machines stashed away is feeling adventurous...
[0]: https://deuill.org/code/jlime-vargtass/ [1]: https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/vargtass/
I did spend quite a bit of time on your site, linked sites, and webarchive. The files on your site did not work out of the box for me. I did eventually get a combination of kernel and configuration that kind of worked, but I think the CompactFlash card was too big. It stalled out on hard drive interrupts.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150626030407/http://fz.hobby-s...
[0]: https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/misc/jshlo-1.1.0-CE-2.11...
It is modeled on a Psion 5mx with updated insides, and has some of the original team members from Psion working on it.
And didn't they build it on a SoC that was already EOL at launch, for which there are no FOSS drivers, meaning it will be forever stuck on an ancient kernel version[2]? I don't want to spend my money on a machine that will have be to thrown away in a year for lack of security updates. (Which is why I'm backing the Librem 5 instead, even though I loved the Psion series 3a and series 5 and would really like a keyboard.)
[1] Well, they have implemented Android incarnations of the calendar and database apps, which is something at least: https://planetcom.squarespace.com/software-1
[2] Their Android 8 update seems to use Linux 3.18, released in 2014: https://github.com/dguidipc/gemini-android-kernel-3.18-andro...
> Just when I gave up (of course) I found it!! Yay!!
There has to be a name for this phenomenon or a 'law'. There is a whole world of emotions that goes with it, from starting out with expectation of failure to the 'yay' exhilaration of having found it. If it is found it will be in the last placed searched, not anywhere else.
Those were cool, but in retrospect they did not make sense at all.
Someone was developing a flashrom board for the Jornada 728 that would have greatly improved GNU/Linux support -- including real sleep and truly long battery life. Sadly they never delivered.
Funny thing is, someone asked me about it only some years ago.
This is what proxies are for. Assuming it supports proxies. It would of course be wholly untrustworthy as it's likely vulnerable to a whole host of functional middling exploits.
