Palm Advice

[labrat_wr]

So, what you are saying is that we are not on the cutting edge of electronics???? 😯

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[gotta run]

@CacheARRRS wrote:

back in my day we had to chisel our posts in stone then go hang them down by the watering hole…

Those can still be published on Big Bob’s Big Bulletin Board O’ Caches.

http://cachinbob.proboards66.com/index.cgi?

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[Averith]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

@Ry and Ny wrote:

@labrat_wr wrote:

@Cachelovskys wrote:

I am almost embarrassed to tell which one I use…oh well, who am I trying to impress?!?

I currently am using a Palm 500, doesn’t have all the bells and whistles but tends to give me what I need.

It is getting harder to play High Tech games on a budget. 😕

So I’m hitting the Geocaching.com site on my old Atari 400 computer…. 😉

Oh ya well yesterday I made this post with my commodore 64.

Should trying using the internet on a Radio Shack Color Computer II with cassette tape drive. 😀

Oh and you might look at a Palm TX I’ve had mine for a while now and it works great.

[gotta run]

After much debate we’ve chosen an older Zire, not quite as old as Cachelovsky’s…a Zire 72. Partly to be cheap ($70 off eBay), and also because it has a camera in it, whereas none of the current Palms do. (???) Also has an available wireless card so we’ll see how it goes.

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[gotta run]

Just to close the loop on this, should anyone be interested…

After much consideration of all the available options, we couldn’t find one that did *everything* well–PDA, camera, Wi-Fi, and GPSr. Interestingly, none of the current generation of Palms or other PDAs had a camera (our cell phones don’t have one, I know, amazing).

So rather than lay out $$$ on a new Palm (in order to run cachemate) that also had Wi-Fi, we went with the Zire 72, used off eBay. Old by current standards, but a big upgrade from the Palm VII we were using. The 72 has a camera, an available Wi-Fi card, and a reasonable web browser.

So for abt. $100 total we were able to get a device to store all cache info for paperless caching (via Cachemate), a camera for when pictures are needed for logging requirements or other, and Wi-Fi if we need to check on something on gc.com and there’s a hotspot nearby.

Obviously there are other options but this has worked very well so far.

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