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Date:	Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:14:34 PST7
From:	larry.tawa@worldnet.att.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Psion 3c and OS/2

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In <23717.13.11.57.19.11.2002@dslextreme.com>, on 11/19/2002
at 01:10 PM, said:

>Anyone ever use the Psion 3C with OS/2 Warp ?
>I've had a Psion 3C for almost ten years and really hate to give it up
>for a Palm or its look-alike. The Psion is quite functional. The
>director of the Museum of Modern Art wrote 2 books using his Psion. Of
>course, at home he transferred his writing from the Psion to his desktop,
>but he has heralded the functionality of the Psion. I see there are
>different programs available, just wondering if anyone has had first-hand
>experience they could relate.

I use Psions separately from OS/2. Backup to Windows NT4, although may
use VPC with Windows as a guest OS. I like the Psion.

See:

(1) "The Psion to OS/2 Connection" http://os2.mensys.nl/psion/

(2) http://www.psioneering.co.uk/digest.html - This is good mailing
list for Psion users; but I would suggest subscribing with a yahoo
address; why? couple years ago every time I posted to this list:
increase in spam........ Now, the list has migrated to a new owner, but I
still would be careful.

You realize that the Psion is a dead-end product; the Psion lost the PDA
market to Palm. If I was going to buy a Psion or Psion-like now, the best
bang for the buck would be the Mako (new - US$100; a relabeled Revo Plus.
The Revo had only 8 MB while the Mako, aka Revo Plus, has 16 MB. Much of
the shareware/freeware that runs on the Psion 3C runs on the Mako. Some
other key limitations of the Mako are no backlight & spongy keyboard.

Psion failed, but the OS lives on in the form of the Symbian OS; on new
cell phones combined with PDA. The most advance form IMO is the Nokia
Communicator 9290 (US version) while more advanced European/Asian versions
are the 92xx series. Other versions of the Symbian OS withe cell
phone/PDA will come out. The Nokia Communicator is a GSM phone supported
officially only on the T-mobile network formerly Voicestream.
Unfortunately, most of the prior Psion shareware will not run on the Nokia
Communicator......

As an aside, I owned & then sold a HP 100LX (??) with the Microsoft
Windows CE 1.0 OS. Just did not like it. IIRC, each new version of the
Windows CE OS is suppose to be "better" but the much of the data could not
be migrated..............

Regards.

Larry
Proud owner of the Psion 5MX, Mako, and Nokia Communicator 9290 --
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