Talking about PalmOS and the AlphaSmart Dana... for an hour

In which yr hmbl svt demonstrates PalmOS on his Palm IIIe and AlphaSmart Dana, and goes on for rather longer than he planned. At least it's thorough.

I completely forgot to mention while doing this (it took three takes, as the screens were both so reflective that unless everything was placed just right they were incredibly glarey... which is why I'm moving both devices a bit oddly) that there's an absolute tonne of free and open source PalmOS software about, but you'll have to hunt for it as a lot of the old distribution sites are dying. https://www.palmopensource.com or http://palmdb.net are good starts. Applications were typically developed on a PC and downloaded to the device but there are a few native programming tools... such as this C compiler: https://sourceforge.net/projects/onbo...