I used to have a Psion Series 5. It was a cool little computer and I really liked it, but it eventually bit the dust when the flexy cable that fed signals to the screen gave out and the screen went dead. Evidently that was a common failure mode. By that time the Palm Pilot had taken over so I switched to that, but I never liked the palm as much as the S5.
The Register recently published a long article about the development of the S5, if you're into computers and the stories behind how they're built you'll like this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/psion_special/
Using the Psion with Linux
http://ldp.southcom.com.au/LDP/HOWTO/Psion-HOWTO.html
| Linux and Psion HOWTO | HOWTO hook up a psion to a linux box
http://www.freepoc.de/
| Welcome to FreEPOC | Free tools for Psion EPOC
http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/psiconv/index.html
| Psiconv, PSION 5 file format data conversion utilities |
http://www.gumbley.demon.co.uk/plptools.html
| plptools - Matt's work on User-Space UNIX-Psion tools |
http://gnupoc.sourceforge.net/
| GNU cross-development tool chain for EPOC. Allows you to build EPOC programs on Linux/WINE.
http://www.armlinux.org/docs/toolchain/
| arm cross-toolkit build |
Running Linux on the Psion itself
http://staff.washington.edu/dushaw/psion
- page about how to run a Debian woody-based GNU/Linux on the 5mx.
http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/
| Linux7k | Home page of the Linux7k project, the Psion Linux kernel port
http://ioasun2.epfl.ch/kybic/psionS5/
| Linux on Psion Series 5 | Running Linux on the S5
http://www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/
| Aleph ARMLinux home |
http://www.emdebian.org/
| The Embedded Debian Project |
http://www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/debian/arm.html
| Debian GNU/Linux -- ARM Port |
http://www.linuxhacker.org/pub/flatcap/
| flatcap | Flatcap is a tiny Linux distribution intended for Geofoxes and Psion Series 5s
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
| ARM Linux
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~bg3k-ysd/psion/index.html
| Linux7k l10n!
Miscellanous
http://news.tucows.com/pdanews/
| PDA News |
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/martin_guthrie/IR/InfraRed.htm
| Tips for using IR with a Psion
http://www.aha.ru/%7eodating/s5inside/index.htm
| S5 Inside | Pictures of a disassembled Psion
http://www.rmrsoft.com/epoc/task.htm
| RMR Software - RMRTask | task manager sw for the psion
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TobyCabot
- 06 Jun 2001
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