On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 12:45 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > ...I was never a big fan > > > of PalmOS, TBH. Too limited for me as a former Psion user, and the > > > Palm devices were always very tied to a PC -- they were meant to be a > > > way to take your Outlook (or whatever) address book and diary with you > > > in your pocket. > > > > Interesting view of Palm usage that I hadn't considered. > > > > > I didn't use Outlook or a desktop PC PIM at all. > > > > Nor did I. When I carried a Palm Pilot every day, I was using UNIX > > 'mail' for work e-mail and did all local edits of my calendar on the > > Palm. I did backup my Palm Pilot, to my Linux Laptop (I still have > > backups files from 1999 in an archive folder). > > Not sure if this counts as "connected" but I used Palm Desktop itself for > my personal scheduling. I never used my Palms (an m505 and a Zire 72) for > E-mail, though. It did mostly note-taking, calendar and pharmacy work, and > some programming (in Plua). > Cameron, how did you like Plua and what did you do with it? I remember downloading it and running a few very simple things with it. I had been looking for Python or Ruby at the time, but happened across that and thought Lua seemed like an interesting language too. Sadly, I never got around to learning it, though. (I think my first exposure to Lua was through tomsrtbt, which I ran on an old Compaq laptop; many of its scripts were in Lua. I think I read that that let them be compact and still expressive. But after messing with that system and not knowing my way around the scripts, I forgot about Lua until I found Plua.) -- Eric Christopherson