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Arsenic Lupin posted:drat, I loved my Palm. I got my first one when it was still called a Pilot. Won it in a Web contest. Bought all the others. I had a III, a V, a Handspring Prism, and a Treo 650 phone (I still have the Prism and the Treo in a drawer somewhere). Awesome pieces of tech for their time.
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Not sure it's been talked about in this thread before, but in the midst of X-mas shopping for my young nieces and nephews, and all the new, exciting, electronic gizmos that are around, I remembered an old toy I had as a kid in the 80's. It was basically a sort of proto-Leapfrog? It was a book that would have a small interactive portion...either asking you to pick an answer to something, or a multiple choice, and you "picked" what you wanted with a small electronic "pen" that you touched to the electronic section on the right of the book, not on the pages itself. And the pen would react sometimes with a red LED and "BAD" noise, or green LED and "good" noise.
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Dec 13, 2021 18:44
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DrBouvenstein posted:Not sure it's been talked about in this thread before, but in the midst of X-mas shopping for my young nieces and nephews, and all the new, exciting, electronic gizmos that are around, I remembered an old toy I had as a kid in the 80's. Sounds like any number of V-Tech toys. Did it also have interchangeable cartridges/ pages that were keyed differently?
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Dec 13, 2021 18:58
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tribbledirigible posted:Sounds like any number of V-Tech toys. Did it also have interchangeable cartridges/ pages that were keyed differently? I don't think it was Vtech? Just took a quick look at their history page and didn't see it featured there, but doesn't mean it wasn't them. And I don't think so to the latter point. I think each book was just it's own book, no cartridges. The only one I remember the content of was a "Berenstain Bears" story.
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Dec 13, 2021 19:06
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Sounds a little like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SZHA3qTc6c
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Dec 13, 2021 19:10
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That reminded me of a really primitive interactive book I had as a kid and I actually managed to find a youtube video about it: Big Bird Beep books. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbCPiJIQkJI
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Dec 13, 2021 19:13
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Buncha Electro "board games" like that as well.
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Dec 13, 2021 19:27
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Arsenic Lupin posted:drat, I loved my Palm. I got my first one when it was still called a Pilot. Won it in a Web contest. Bought all the others. I got on the Palm train with the Palm IIIc (either the first or one of the first colour ones) and stuck with it up until the T|X. I think I kept using that all the way until my first smartphone in 2010 or thereabouts. Really well built devices for their time, although the power button had a tendency to give out after a few years (thankfully you could remap it to any hardware button).
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Dec 13, 2021 19:58
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Ours always broke when the touch screen stopped tracking.
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Dec 13, 2021 20:05
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Never had that happen, although by the time I upgraded there were always very visible scratches on the screen on the onscreen keyboard home row (I never got the hand of Graffiti) and where the letters in Text Twist were.
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Dec 13, 2021 20:07
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New CRD is very much thread relevant and great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POSPaiutNlQ
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I miss the palm pre. I really wish HP had let that product line live. I’d love to see where it went if they’d kept making phones. I even had an unreleased Palm Pre 3 that was dumped on eBay by someone that worked at HP and used it for about a year.
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Ensign Expendable posted:I got on the Palm train with the Palm IIIc (either the first or one of the first colour ones) and stuck with it up until the T|X. I think I kept using that all the way until my first smartphone in 2010 or thereabouts. Really well built devices for their time, although the power button had a tendency to give out after a few years (thankfully you could remap it to any hardware button). Palm had some neat accessories, like a notepad. You'd write with ink on paper, but your writing/drawing/whatever was automatically transmitted to the Palm. I cannot remember if it was _good_ quality, but I didn't care and neither should you. Wipfmetz has a new favorite as of 06:46 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Dec 13, 2021 23:54
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Computer viking posted:Besides, Google seem to be trying to lock android down further. As of the most recent increase in minimum API level, it's now much harder to use one app to provide storage for another: if you try to set a file from syncthing as your password database, you now have to manually browse for it every time you launch the password manager, for "security" reasons. Google drive just works, though. Of course. Yes, I recently learned about this; I spent the weekend trying to write an Android application in Go. My plan was to use it with files synchronized via syncthing, but as you point out, that's Difficult now.
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Wipfmetz posted:I've used my Palm (Tungsten 5, i think? One with persistent memory) in university, partiall for gaming (it had simple 3D graphics!), paritally for organizing stuff. I didn't need to write since I had one of these bad boys:  It folded up nicely into a box about the size of the device but twice as thick and came in its own carrying case.
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Dec 14, 2021 02:58
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Ensign Expendable posted:I didn't need to write since I had one of these bad boys: Aw yeah, had one of these for my Handspring Visor Prism. My least favorite obsolete technology, but one that is surprisingly persistent: Row-stagger keyboard layouts. Fight me.
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Dec 14, 2021 04:23
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Exit Strategy posted:Aw yeah, had one of these for my Handspring Visor Prism. As in you prefer ortholinear? I built one on a whim and find it maddeningly difficult to use, probably because I'm fighting years of muscle memory.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Sounds a little like this? No, nothing removable or insert-able. One book was one book, that was it. At least I think, I was 8-10 so who the Hell knows, I could be misremembering, But I specifically remember the "pen"/stylus thing. Black, about 6" long, the tip was maybe 1/4-1/2" wide where you touched it to the book, and the other end was about as wide as 2 AAA's for the battery compartment, and it had a red "wrong answer" LED and green "right answer" LED, and I'm like 90%sure it also made noise. Edit: I looked up "Light and Learn" and that's not it. Second edit: More research and I am fairly certain it was Questron, that pen he's using is almost a perfect match for my memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AruhjQNVM6Y Although I don't remember the multi-colored sticker along the side, and remember the LEDs being on the back of the pen, BUT that could just be my bad memory and/or they had a re-design at some point. And that also might be the British version and I had the American? Hard to say but pretty sure that was it. DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 14:28 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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Dec 14, 2021 14:22
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I know I had one of those Questron type pens as a child, but sadly I don't remember what it was for, just the device itself, sorry. As a kid I loved a) space b) dinosaurs, so a book about either would be my guess.
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I had the Questron pen too, and was obsessed with it. I don't remember the books at all, but I loved finding stuff in the house that would trigger the noises. Also made an excellent pretend barcode scanner.
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Dec 14, 2021 17:52
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All this barcode pen talk reminded me of when my mom tried to teach me piano using the Casio MT-70. I loving loved running the pen on the barcode songs making the read noise and the LEDs blink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1CqHmjOAs
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Hokkaido Anxiety posted:As in you prefer ortholinear? I built one on a whim and find it maddeningly difficult to use, probably because I'm fighting years of muscle memory. From the people who have bought my ortholinear boards - and my own experience - I tell you this. Two weeks. Give it two weeks, and you'll adapt. Then you'll get faster at typing and your wrists will hurt less.
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Dec 15, 2021 01:13
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moller posted:Audiogalaxy and OiNK were like watching two libraries of Alexandria be burned. All those people moved onto What.CD which also got burned, but they've rebuilt it again at another site.
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Exit Strategy posted:From the people who have bought my ortholinear boards - and my own experience - I tell you this. Two weeks. I typed like a little baby for a week or two after I got a Kinesis Advantage but damned if it wasn't a great keyboard once I got used to it. Unlike other stupid nerd keyboard poo poo (like Dvorak layouts), it doesn't ruin your ability to type on a regular human keyboard either.
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Pham Nuwen posted:it doesn't ruin your ability to type on a regular human keyboard either. That hardly seems worth it at all.
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Exit Strategy posted:From the people who have bought my ortholinear boards - and my own experience - I tell you this. Two weeks. Do you have an SA thread of your own?
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Dec 15, 2021 06:10
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I swear to god if people change typing again im gonna flip out. I did an apple ][, i loving wrote gwbasic on a 286 and could t9 poo poo for days. now my keyboard is like “you spell it ‘weekond’ so i’ll fix it rq”. Oh you hit that one twice you must be deaf so now the colors are flipped. It took me an hour to type this and there aren’t ducking any arrow keys so i can’t even go back and fix the capitalization.  ^Z C:>del post.txt
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Dec 15, 2021 06:31
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Phone typing is pretty bad. Sometimes I'll be typing along and am about to hit the predicted word that I want and I look at what I typed and see that it correctly guessed "probably" from me typing "otindkt" but sometimes I get really close to the real word I want and it just throws up random garbage words that I have never typed on my phone.
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Dec 15, 2021 06:53
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There's some sort of breakpoint where, if I'm a bit too tired and imprecise, the autocorrect goes from mostly good to actively destructive. (And goddamn is typing code on a phone keyboard ever horrible. ) As a fun bonus, I also type a fair bit of Norwegian. There's a layout change button on the keyboard, which moves the keys around to fit in three more vowels, in addition to changing the autocorrect language. I'd love to stick to a single button layout and just change the language, but that's apparently not how things work. And even with the language set to Norwegian it's 50/50 if I'm allowed to type a lowercase I. (Which is how Norwegian spells "in", so it comes up fairly often). Oh well, it's mostly good. I do miss the little trackball on my first Android phone (a HTC Hero), though; it was perfect for cursor positioning.
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Dec 15, 2021 09:59
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Computer viking posted:Oh well, it's mostly good. I do miss the little trackball on my first Android phone (a HTC Hero), though; it was perfect for cursor positioning. Try swiping left and right on the space button if your phone isn't too old. This moves the cursor.
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Dec 15, 2021 10:14
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I'm aware of it, but it's somewhat fiddly compared to the hardware solution. Still, yes, it does help.
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Dec 15, 2021 10:42
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I still use hackers's keyboard on android with full layout on portrait. It's slow to type with two thumbs, but atleast I can blame only myself for the typos.
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Dec 15, 2021 10:46
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SwiftKey is great. No need to manually switch languages if you're multilingual, and doesn't auto replace words if you don't want to, just shows the suggestions for you to tap.
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Dec 15, 2021 11:36
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I'm big on swiftkey since 8pen died.
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Computer viking posted:And even with the language set to Norwegian it's 50/50 if I'm allowed to type a lowercase I.
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Dec 15, 2021 13:23
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SwiftKey decided that 'muhh' is more of a real word than 'much' and will autocorrect 'much' to 'muhh' no matter how many times I long press the suggestion and press 'never predict muhh again'
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Dec 15, 2021 14:49
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Grammarly is going to get so much shitposting data from me it'll become a subset of the English Language (US) setting.
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FilthyImp posted:Grammarly is going to get so much shitposting data from me it'll become a subset of the English Language (US) setting. I checked my Grammarly dictionary and it is ridiculous.
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SLOSifl posted:now my keyboard is like “you spell it ‘weekond’ so i’ll fix it rq”. Oh you hit that one twice you must be deaf so now the colors are flipped. Yesterday I had to teach my Android phone "robe". I mean, what.
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phone keyboards that autocaps password forms 
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