BONUS VIDEO: Fun with a Tiny Potato Computer - the Psion 5mx
Added 2023-05-08 16:42:23 +0000 UTCHello Patreon friends! I found a tiny potato of a computer - a Psion 5mx with 16mb of RAM and 32 whole megahertz! Let's check it out, have some fun with it, and of course - run DOOM.
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It also runs #NetBSD (9.3 or 10). Also there's the Sharp Zaurus Line that runs Linux natively.
Alexander Shendi
2023-05-18 00:16:37 +0000 UTCYou shouldn't jiggle the hinges so much, as they are fragile and there are few shops left which will repair your 5mx. Speaking from experience.
Alexander Shendi
2023-05-18 00:06:42 +0000 UTCto be fair, 16 megs for an embedded device/glorified pda in 1999 is actually quite substantial
juno
2023-05-11 18:57:25 +0000 UTCohhhh thanks!
Action Retro
2023-05-10 21:51:59 +0000 UTCIf you pull down the little tab in front of those three small buttons, you will see that all three of them are labelled for voice recording/playback functions. :-)
Alex Oughton
2023-05-10 14:19:42 +0000 UTCThank you so much!
Action Retro
2023-05-09 15:24:14 +0000 UTCI LIKE SOLDER FUMES
Mac84
2023-05-09 14:58:37 +0000 UTCYou are quite welcome. I get to see some cool stuff and learn things I wouldn't have otherwise been able to! I know it's not much, but in between jobs, it's what I can do now. Besides, I'm in love with bitbang, too. :) Thanks for the great content.
Scotia
2023-05-09 09:27:34 +0000 UTCThats really neat that was ahead of its time Sean
Daves Vintage Apple Tech
2023-05-09 02:15:12 +0000 UTCThat was gonna be my question, HHGG on that seems pretty fitting. There's another Douglas Adams penned game out there called Bureaucracy from infocom as well. Seems fitting since he loved tiny computers.
Chris Van Riper
2023-05-09 01:32:06 +0000 UTCOld subscriber(in age, too!) and a new patron! Thank you so much for all your old tech shenanigans!!
David Parker
2023-05-09 00:18:44 +0000 UTCUh uh... pretty soon you'll be going down the early smartphone rabbit hole, too! Symbian OS was used by Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, BenQ and many others in the form of Series 60/80/90 and UIQ. Ah, the heady days of the early mobile Internet! Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), xHTML, cHTML and Japan's iMode... those were the days. Then the iPhone happened. Dun dun dunnnnnn.
Justin Ried
2023-05-09 00:16:30 +0000 UTCwill it run crysis?
Aldo Fernandez
2023-05-08 20:49:33 +0000 UTCdamn i've eaten potatoes bigger than that! it's a really cool little device. good for playing interactive fiction on it too!
The Great Quux
2023-05-08 19:26:52 +0000 UTC16 grays is actually fatal according to my radiation guide.
Rob Jobin
2023-05-08 17:18:10 +0000 UTCIt's a handtop.
Rob Jobin
2023-05-08 16:59:32 +0000 UTCBut will it run DO- Oh, I see. Carry on.
ctrl.alt.rees
2023-05-08 16:53:15 +0000 UTC
