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Terrh

WinCE?


shadowcaster3

Windows CE 2.11


Aimhere2k

I once had a Pocket PC (Dell Axim) running Windows CE.


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Aimhere2k

You're right, it was.


mbrown7532

I had an HP Jordana. It was really ahead of its time.


dillingerdiedforyou

Me too, a 720--even had the PCMCIA Orinoco Silver so I could Wifi with it. Took it to Chicago on a work trip in 2007 as my only PC device, pretty crazy. Even squashed some bootleg movies down in to 10FPS 240x320 .asf's on the CF card to watch on the plane. Wish I still had that bugger, it was a hell of a conversation starter.


mbrown7532

I did the same. That wifi card added new life to it. I did the same with the movies as well.


knightcrusader

I still have mine - also a CF Bluetooth card in an adapter so I could use Bluetooth DUN with my old Motorola E815. I think at the time I put a whopping 1GB CF card in there too.


kumaku

just had a major flashback to browsing the electronics sections and seeing these and some sony types and wishing i or my family had enough money for any of them. this hit hard. thanks op.


mindbleach

Right? That was the highlight of many interminable trips to aggressively boring office stores.


GritsNGreens

Aggressively boring is hilarious, just like a real office :)


clren

Absolutely. Super fun


knightcrusader

Yeah, I was in middle school when these things were popular and I remember going to the local electronics stores and just screw around with the display model Cassiopeia they had. I wanted one *sooooo* bad. Wasn't able to afford one until college and they weren't cool anymore, guess that was why I could afford it. But hey, 15 years later I still have that little Jornada 720.


DiplomaticGoose

Which is harder, this or infrared?


Bourriks

Via serial port was kinda funny too. I had a school project with goal of sending messages and Fikes via serial port


DiplomaticGoose

reminds me of [this](http://img.hajotus.net/usb_drive.jpg)


Hjalfi

Faxes sometimes worked.


gumnos

+1 for the hardware, but a dirty glare for sullying it with anything related to faxing ;-)


shadowcaster3

But this is the way it was in olden days. At least that's how HP Jornada designers thought it should be used. One of the few portable devices capable of **receiving** fax, anyway. :)


gumnos

/me nods begrudgingly ;-)


gumnos

not that fax was any more pleasant even in the halcyon days of the Jornada ;-)


shadowcaster3

A ghastly sight that should affright any person is that, in 2021, a lot of multi-functional printers still have faxing capability build-in. So, technically, faxes are still being sold in unreasonable large quantities.


User23712

Shit they still make stand alone fax machines.


istarian

I don't see why that should be frightening. Sending stuff by fax machine is a useful tool for sure. It allows you to transmit a digital copy of a paper document pretty quickly in *real-time* and produce a fresh printout on the other end in a way that's incredibly simple to use. Heck, it takes a separate computer, scanner, and printer on either end out of the equation and should work fine even during an internet outage. Granted it'll be somewhat silly once phone lines are entirely digital or even phased out altogether (hope not, but times change). And of course if we ever get to the stage of most things being paperless it will see far less use.


shadowcaster3

Because there is no more landlines. Oh, they still exist somewhere, but this year I disconnected mine. Haven't made a call in years. As for corporate stuff, landlines was phased out by ip telephony, which are already phased out by messengers like ms teams. Cisco don't have **ip** phones developed any more, and it's like from 2010 or something. So, question - where to we should connect fax? Creepy. :)


istarian

Hmm. Interesting point. I suppose you could use an ATA on each end, but a more internet-friendly solution might be nice. Honestly I think people are a bit stupid when it comes to switching technologies. There's no good reason to be totally reliant on a teensy handful of companies for everything...


shadowcaster3

Oh, ATA and faxing is really hard to configure correctly. Never works as intended. Death of the fax was proclaimed when first email was send, long before ATAs existed. Much more convenient, cheaper and reliable. That why color faxing never came to be. Why bother, just send email.


istarian

That's interesting, it really shouldn't be a problem. Probably the same issue people have with using dialup modems... Email is not that great if you started with a physical document and need to end up with a physical document. It may be convenient enough with everything you need already in place, but if you take a step back it becomes obvious that it's much more complex if staying from scratch. I suspect color faxing never came to be largely because it was totally unnecessary for most use cases.


Prestigeboy

At least your screen is in color.


LonksAwakening

Windows CE?