On Zaurus (for a moment)
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During 2020  I have had  a ready  Sharp Zaurus on  my desk. It  was the
SL-C3200  (that fat  one  with the  real  HDD). While  it  is the  most
powerful Zaurus  in existence it is  also the heaviest one  and its HDD
(while offering benefits like large spece  for files and the swap area)
has obvious  impact on battery  life. My  device also has  loose screen
hinges which makes its use less comfortable.

Thus I have decided  to put it back to storage box and  tu use a older,
lighter and cute white  SL-C760. It has no, no USB, just  a half of RAM
and a weaker CPU but the rest  of features is similar to the C3200. And
it can work longer on the same battery.

I have reviewed the stuff which is available here: no compilers nor the
TeX  is installed  (I have  them on  a CompactFlash  card which  is not
inserted).  But the  basic set  of applications  is here:  the terminal
emulator Konzole, the  office package and the mail  client, the ZEditor
(the text editor optimised for the Zaurus, that is), the Gnuplot and so
on. The  NetFront and  the Opera  are also  present (they  cannot acces
https:/, of course) and the RSS client Zocalo is here, too.

 Now I have no  router which can work with the "b"  WiFi standard. So I
 have to connect the Zaurus to  the Internet with use of an CompactFlash
 Ethernet card. So  I can read RSS feeds (the  Zocalo is actually almost
 perfect, the only issue is that it can understand non-UFT-8 encodings),
 exchange files with the SCP, use the Telnet and the SSH (to some sites)
 or read e-books and write texts or programs (I must try to compile some
 BASIC interpreter here!).

 I also  filled the  calendar with  the most  important events.  Just in
 case. I  still think that  Zauri are one  ow very few  pocket computers
 with  color screens  and keyboards  that actually  works (and  they are
 fast!).  With their  (albeit limited  and  old: they  do just  DOC/XLS)
 office  applications (a  word processor  and a  spreadsheet) and  other
 stuff they still can be used  as pocket workstations... It makes little
 sense to use it as such these days (I still have no reasons for travel)
 but hey, it is still possible to use them as such.

 Well, back to my Organiser II...