> Mark Willis wrote:
> >Hi, Dan - IIRC, Electronics Now (now PopTronics) or Nuts & Volts had
> >articles on this in the past;  I think they were using a Palm (Pro?) as
> >a bike computer or some such application.  Haven't read that in a while,
> >can try to look it up Monday - as I'm now where I need to do the same
> >exact sort if thing for one project.
> >
> >(Upgrading these to 2Mb RAM isn't hard - looking for a Palm III OS, IR
> >capable card, myself.)
> >
>
> Thanks, Mark, will check thru back issues. If Palm Pro, issue is
> probably several years old.
>
> Duh - what is IIRC ???  has a website ???
>
> I am looking downstream a couple of months and don't even have a
> Palm at present. Not too interested in jumping into a wireless unit
> - factors are $$$ and signing up for another service, plus don't
> really care to surf the web with 16 character screen width [ha - I
> prefer doing it on my cell phone with 6 character res - NOT!!].
>
> Am thinking of a Palm IIIxe as a nice compromise - 8MB, OS upgradeable,
> run for 2 months [whatever] off AAA. Looks like a perfect platform
> for what I have in mind - talking to PICs via RS-232. Comments ???????
the bad part of this is that the serial port sucks down the
batteries really fast--they recommend not running it idle for
more than 2 min.  (the palm has a MAX233 type usart)

>
> Will check out the sites you listed.
>
> Also, I would imagine someone has a simple little terminal emulator
> available for Palm ???
>
Dicon by Shigeyuki Seko--even has 9600 baud IR
Free-- available at EuroCool
http://www.eurocool.com/palm/apps/latest/index.html

alice

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