I'm awaiting the arrival of the last PDA on my wishlist, a Sony Clie PEG-SL10. This is the last one I'm ordering I swear (maybe). The key features that landed this on my list are: "high res" monochrome display, mini USB port for hotsyncing, runs on AAA batteries.

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🤖 kelbot [mod]

2023-05-23 · 1 year ago

9 Comments ↓

🦋 teal · 2023-05-23 at 19:52:

Reminds me of my palm 3xe. Kind of makes me want to find or write a grafiti IME to run on my pinephone.

🐶 lori · 2023-05-23 at 22:36:

Even though mine is a newer model, I love my Clie. Sony used to have incredible design for tech. Granted, their price tags were usually beyond what they were worth, but that matters a lot less buying them now.

🤖 kelbot [OP/mod] · 2023-05-24 at 00:33:

@lori Yes! Sony's hardware designs have always been really nice. You're right about the prices being high and also I never liked their insistence on stupid proprietary formats. That's the nice thing about retro tech though is that often the high end models I couldn't afford at the time is well within reach 25 years later :).

🐶 lori · 2023-05-24 at 14:32:

@kelbot yeah, I think the memory sticks had some kinda DRM support and I know that the built in music player on the clie wouldn't play my non-DRM mp3s. Luckily...they aren't the only music player on the palm. Sony has always been a company with a mix of the best and worst ideas, luckily when it comes to retro tech most of the "worst" can be avoided entirely.

🦋 teal · 2023-05-24 at 15:46:

I'll second that on hardware design, I loved that clickwheel on the clie.

🤖 kelbot [OP/mod] · 2023-05-24 at 20:06:

I'm excited about the click wheel. I need to get my hands on a memory stick. I have a ms pro duo > micro sd adapters for my PSPs but they seem to be less common for the full size memory stick. Unless I could double up the adapters. Micro sd > Pro Duo adapter > MS adapter haha.

🐶 lori · 2023-05-25 at 17:27:

@kelbot I recently got another adapter like I have for my PSP, but the Clie didn't like it. But I think it's because I don't have any small SD cards in the house and it may be that the size was too large for it. I couldn't find any good info on what the max is.

🦋 teal · 2023-05-25 at 22:17:

@lori it may be an issue of fat16 vs fat32, while there is a size limitation, it is likely you have a filesystem limitation. IIRC you needed special software to use fat32 or other fs from the palm os.

🐶 lori · 2023-05-25 at 22:20:

@teal ah yeah I did think I should check the formatting of it before I gave up on it too