Re: [Hampshire] SLUG at the BaB? (and Psion 5)

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Συντάκτης: Sean Gibbins
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Clive Woodfine wrote:
> On 03/08/07, Ian Park <ian@???> wrote:
>
>
>> * tying in with Andy's comments about the Psion in a separate email, I
>> read somewhere that with a serial-to-usb adapter you can use a Psion as
>> a portable keyboard/screen - any ideas where I might get one reasonably
>> cheap?
>>
>
> Do you know if this works with the Psion Revo as I would like to try?
> I have read that Linux can be installed on the Psion [1]. I shall
> bring it along tomorrow. There's a challenge for someone!
>
> [1] http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Psion-HOWTO.html


Hi Clive,

I did get a Debian port (I think) working on the Psion 5 a couple of
years back, but it really was just to see if it would work and to be
honest it was painfully slow and on the whole not worth the effort, IIRC.

Sean