Your old Z

[macwiz]

I notice from some signatures that folks have more than 1 Zaurus. Same here. I now have an 860, and a 5500, which I want to hang on to ... just in case.

But what do people use their old Z for? I can\'t imagine leaving it to languish in a drawer. Perhaps you have some suggestions.

(You may ask why I don\'t sell it/pass it on. Perhaps I will when my kids are older, but I once had a Psion that I sold on, and have always regretted parting with it. Sad, eh?)

[anonuk]

I have my old handhelds piling up here, i try to pass them on to someone in my family/friends so nowadays everyone has a pda:-)

I use the 860, my 5500 went to my girlfriend (upgrade to her old psion 5 she is addicted to reading ebooks), the psion 5 on to my sister, psion siena to my mum, psion 3c to my brother, Palm pilot to my dad. So everyone is always happy when i upgrade as they all get to upgrade to the next pass-me-on in sequence everytime there is a new zaurus release :-)

It comes in useful to have the old zaurus around, to test stuff on - but in general i am not so great with throwing out hardware. I havent sold on any of my old stuff, theres a spectrum 128Kb, 48K, some amstrad PCWs and notepads, a tandy monochrome laptop, and thousands of tapes/discs (including some 3 inch ones) - maybe someday they will be worth something, for the moment the nostalgia is great - football manager on the original spectrum 48K is almost as good as the emulation on the Zaurus :-)

[padishah_emperor]

I keep some of my old PDAs for nostalgia/historical/display purposes, Psion Organiser (the very first black one), Psion Organiser II, Atari Portfolio, HP Omnigo, HP 200LX, HP 71B, Casio PB-100, some TI calcs (pre-LCD). I kept my first ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum and two Atari 130XEs. Still got some 8\" disks, yes 8\" disks, from ICL DRS20 systems. Mainly because they are in mint/good condition and may be worth something to a museum or me when I\'m old and grey.

Imagine if you will my false teeth flapping in drool saying \"hey sonny boy, back in the 20th century we didn\'t have bio-nets and quantum technology, it was good old fashioned silicon... those were the days..\" I\'ll have robo-teeth by then I hope.

Usually I give them away to charity, friends and loved ones, or someone like here for example who lost theirs or couldn\'t afford one.

My 5500 went to \'mentat_bashar\' who weeps daily with joy (He\'ll kick my ass for that!)

:-)

[bluedevils]

read the sig

[TonyOlsen]

Imagine if you will my false teeth flapping in drool saying \"hey sonny boy, back in the 20th century we didn\'t have bio-nets and quantum technology, it was good old fashioned silicon... those were the days..\" I\'ll have robo-teeth by then I hope.  

Ha Ha Ha Ha!!  Hilarious!

\"Yes, we had to actually use something called a remote to change the channels on the TV and we had to prepare our own food.  We had to be awake while driving, and trans-continental trips would take hours not minutes.\"

[gester]

An Ex of mine has a little borther who refused to beleve that there was ever a tv without a remote till he was about 14 and I could prove it to him.

An on topic not, most of my old mobile equitment tends to end up with my Mom, laptops and palm tops, I think thats the way it\'s worked the last 3 rounds.

What she does with them later I\'ll never know.

Gester

[SharpEnd]

I don\'t yet have a Z.....but soon an 860.   At that point, I\'ll hang on to my (2) Newton 2100s.  Can\'t ever give those up - 6+ years old and still running strong.

[padishah_emperor]

\"Yes, we had to actually use something called a remote to change the channels on the TV and we had to prepare our own food.  We had to be awake while driving, and trans-continental trips would take hours not minutes.\"

Anyone remember TV remote controls with wires?

My first computer literally had to be programmed in binary!
10101101 [load]
11101011 [load]
101011.. \"Aah crap!\"
[reset]
10101101 [load]
11101011 [load]
10111101 [load]
1110100.. \"Oh b*ll*cks! stupid machine!!!\"
[reset]
ad nauseum....


:-)  Oh my, I love a good laugh....

I hope my robo-teeth will have an auto-chew feature, but with my current waves of toothache, wooden pegs would suffice. ;-)

LOL! Keep \'em coming!!

[macwiz]

Ummm. So I\'m not the only one that\'s sad. I mean how can you have a soft-spot for a chunk of plastic/metal/silicon?

And yet we do. Even something that is getting hopelessly out of date. Except obviously the point is that my 5500 isn\'t really past it. There\'s a lot about it that I really like; that natty little pull out keyboard for instance, and the way Opera in column view makes better sense of confusing web pages than I can with the unaided eye on a big screen! And how thanks to new roms the 5500 does more than it did when I bought it!

I just want to do stuff with it that I wouldn\'t risk on my crucial working day machine (the 860). So I am open to suggestions and pointers, and am just interested how I justify not putting it on ebay.

\'coz I\'m not.

Thanks

[padishah_emperor]

I just want to do stuff with it that I wouldn\'t risk on my crucial working day machine (the 860). So I am open to suggestions and pointers, and am just interested how I justify not putting it on ebay.

Well that\'s not really an answerable question, it completely depends on what you use a Z for, run a webserver? use it as a terminal to servers? install apps for testing? just mothballing it for an emergency?

Only you can answer that really..

I would advise that if you cannot do something nice with it for someone, why not just wrap it up and put it somewhere safe... you never know..

I wouldn\'t sell it.

[Omicron]

Usually I give them away to charity, friends and loved ones, or someone like here for example who lost theirs or couldn\'t afford one.  

Like me...I am poor and need your old Zaurii becuase:

1) I need to pay for my new c860
2) I\'d rather sell yours than my 5500 on ebay as I like mine too much.

       :roll:  :roll:

[padishah_emperor]

ouch!

[offroadgeek]

My 5500 is just lying around in my desk drawer.  I hate that I never use it anymore, but it\'s just hard to go back to it after using my 760.  I won\'t sell it because I paid $450 when it first came out, and I know I\'d barely get over a $100 for it... just doesn\'t seem worth getting rid of it.  Besides, I feel comfortable having a spare unit around.

[macwiz]

I just want to do stuff with it that I wouldn\'t risk on my crucial working day machine (the 860). So I am open to suggestions and pointers, and am just interested how I justify not putting it on ebay.

Well that\'s not really an answerable question, it completely depends on what you use a Z for, run a webserver? use it as a terminal to servers? install apps for testing? just mothballing it for an emergency?

Yeah, I know. Just want some suggestions. I’m not a techie, and I suspect there are things that Zs get used for that would be out of my depth. But on the other hand when you have had one as your daily working machine - I mean a PDA in nearly the consumer sense - and now it is released from that burden, what fun could I have with it? Oh maybe it is a case of keep the ol’5500 for a PDA, and do some really amazing stuff with the 860!

[tumnus]

My 5500 went to my Mrs when I won my 5600.

(We had a huge VCR with one of those tethered remotes - and I can\'t believe I\'m old enough to remember that)