Awww man... you can never escape, can you?

Hey all,

So, it'd been a looooong time since I'd looked at my T|T3. I think I was even starting to forget what Palm OS looks like. I could no longer recite from memory ever Palm OS device ever made and its specs. I no longer got intrigued whenever I heard a Palm OS sound effect ina super market. Couldn't even tell you the hottest new Palm OS software...

...I was finally free and rid of my PDA addiction. I had moved on to a lifestyle of cell phones and Tablet PCs. My days were so beautifully technologically void -- I'd pick up a newspaper, write in a journal, stare out a window. Gone were the days of Bubblet and Bejeweled. No longer did I flip aimlessly through my todo list, figuring out what was left to be done today...

....life was so simple, so technologically free...

...and then, my Motorolla Razr began to suffer a slow and painful death. I wanted to buy a pay-as-you-go phone, but my mother told me I should just limp my Razr out as long as possible...

...oh, that tricky woman! Well, eventually my 20th birthday rolls around, and for it there is a nice, shiny Treo 600 (fresh from eBay)...

...and now, I've fallen off the wagon -- back into Palm addiction I slink...

-Miche

BTW: yeah, I know, that was a REALLY long ramble

Fortunately that's not the only change you've made since you ditched PIC. Pardon the Sin City reference (and the Facebook stalking), but... Skinny little Mel - she grew up, she filled out!

Six years later and still the same signature, too.

Welcome back.

Now fix your avatar.

It really is a good OS. By coincidence, I was playing around with my old T|T earlier this week. I sold it to a guy at work years ago but, like I did last October, he is making the jump to a company-provided BlackBerry. The old Tungsten (which has never missed a beat in all those years) was sitting on his desk, unloved, cast away...

I was impressed again with the simplicity and intuitive operation of the Palm OS. Especially after wrestling with the awful Windows Mobile OS on my Axim X50v for a year or so.

I am a convert to converged devices now; the BlackBerry mostly does it for me. It's free and it gets push e-mail from my corporate account and from my private accounts. If only Pimlico would port DateBk to RIM OS, I would be a happy man indeed (I'm a simple kinda guy).

So I wholly understand Miche's renewed love affair with Palm OS. Her Treo converged phone/PDA will give this great package a new lease of life. Your new target is 12,000 posts on PIC, Miche? Posted wirelessly, of course...

1) Bosco, you still perturb me, even after all these years

2) DWD, if I can find my old avatar, you know I'm going to use it

3) Steve, it is a fine OS, and oh-so-nostalgic. Doubt I'll be doing too horribly much posting, but I'll do my best to keep up w/ the scene. And sadly, I'll be doing absolutely no mobile posting. Despite my pleading (and offers to pay for it myself), my mother won't add data to the family talk plan I'd just get my own plan, but it doesn't make sense to start a service agreement now if I'll be switching carriers next August. I weep each night about my Treo's tragicly wasted potential

-Miche

Ask and ye shall receive:



/yes, it's my old edited version...might have your unedited one somewhere...I'll look.

Yikes, Don, don't you throw anything away? Do you have 10 terabytes of stuff filed right back to the early PDP-8 days? (sigh... first computer I ever used was a Digital PDP-8L. That was 1972. Punched tape, teletypes, Fortran and Focal languages). Was that one you found from the competition when we had to come up with an alternative avatar for Pepper's 5,000th post (or was it 4,000th post?)?

Miche, you're into computers, have you even heard of a PDP-8? Doubtful there are even any sitting in old storage areas at Redmond or Rose-Hulman. I can also remember hand-punching cards (cards!) at my first year in university in 1976; don't remember what the computer was then, though, except it filled a large room. And probably had less capability than your Treo.

Oh, and any of these devices that aren't 3G are a bit of a pain for web-browsing and posting with, so don't feel too bad that you don't have a data plan. My BlackBerry is EDGE (essentially, enhanced GPRS or \"2.5G\" if you like) and is as slow as turtle sh*t when browsing, so I don't bother. Heck, find a PC and log on and do the job properly, life is too short to be fiddling around browsing at snail speeds on a device with a 5 cm screen.

Nope, not relating to computers, I never throw anything out. I have about a terabyte of storage.

In addition, I still have 5 1/4" floppies and a half-dozen Ho-Ho boxes of 3 1/2" floppies. Ho-Ho boxes were the exact size for storing 3 1/2" discs. I'd wrap them in duct/packing/masking tape and they have lasted for 20 years.

I know I have Pepper's original avatar somewhere...just a matter of finding it.

And there you have it... I knew I kept the Apple Cube around for a reason. 500 mhz doesn't get you far, but it sure does hold on to some of my more *ahem* archaic files

I think I'm only bitter about my lack of data plan because I'd like to do emails and IM. I mean, c'mon, I don't even have text messaging!

Its alright though, I found the SD card I used to use way-back-when and its chock full of classic Palm OS games, so that'll keep me entertained for awhile... until I remember how boring and static all these games get after awhile

-Miche

BTW: avatar = fixed; signature won't be changing though

Arrrgh...there it is again, that poor walrus being victimized by the evil purple-duck-of-inter-species-sado-masacistic-bestiality...disgusting!

Crikey. Yeah, okay, that's a bit 1990s then. Nevertheless, a good phone and a cool PDA all rolled into one, for free.

There was always something a bit Ken Done about the avatar, and if it weren't for that fact that we can see both the duck's legs indicating its position beside the walrus I'd be inclined to agree with you re the inter-species thingummy, Don. Well, the visible legs and the fact that it was created by a sweet innocent 14 year old.

Sigh...true, true, all true...well, except that "sweet innocent" part. I mean we're talking about the rabid teen rights advocate that held her own in arguments with a multi-degreed practicing attorney. Nothing sweet or innocent about that...she's a shark I tell ya!

Is that what they're calling mail-order certifications these days? Multi-degreed?

No, but it is what they call glorified trade-school, unimpressed with job offers upon graduation so you go get yet a another (3rd) degree.

B.A., J.D., LL.M.

Touche, salesman. I don't know how you can get through that much school. I'm getting my B.S. in M.E. and I'm done. Honest. I hate being a student, and I just view it as something I have to get through. I have no idea how some people have the patience to get through grad school.