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Re: [PLUG] Blast from the past - Handspring Visor
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> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:18:58 -0500
> From: Randall A Sindlinger<rsindlin+plug@seas.upenn.edu>
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> So, I've just inherited an all-but-new Handspring Visor.
> I used one years ago and loved it, but it eventually lost
> its digitizer calibration, and couldn't maintain recalibration.
> I'm pretty sure everything I had for it before is gone.
Ha, I still have two of those. I still use one every few years for some
books I only have electronically (Almost all of Weber's _Honor
Harrington_ stuff :-) in Mobi format.
I guess I should figure out how to do Mobi on my Mini9. Hummm, looks like:
calibre - e-book converter and library management
fbreader - e-book reader
I *love* Ubuntu... Two minutes to find, research, install and start
using no-cost, malware-free, open-source applications to do anything you
want. (I recently tried to read some x-ray and MRI images in DICOM
format. Yup, there's an app for that. Several, actually. Built-in
(more-or-less). Have I mentioned I love Ubuntu (and Debian)?)
[...]
> OK. Now I'll put in some earplugs and sing 80's songs to
> myself while y'all laugh at me :-)
Let's hear it for Big Hair Bands! For some reason in Winter of 1988 I
spent a lot of time driving in heavy snow listening to _Slipper When
Wet_. So I still sometimes hear "Livin' on a Prayer" as if from my
Civic's (yes, it was a stick :) tape deck when driving in heavy snow now.
OK, I will stop dating my self now...
JP
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