Where is that BOX?
Sep. 6th, 2005 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyI am a frustrated person.
One of our goals in the near future is to get Readerware software, and then - probably in October - throw a weekend cataloging party and try to get our friends to come help us catalog the house library. ALL of it, every book in the house, and then get it reorganized and realphabetized on the shelves.
Part of the reason for this is that then I can get it all on the Visor, and stuff that in my purse, so what when I'm standing in a bookstore, as I was last Saturday, saying "Do we have this book? Did we get it in hardback? Read it from the library and promise ourselves we'd get it in paperback, but we haven't yet?", then I can check the Visor and KNOW.
At the moment, the Visor is the problem with this. I had my old Visor up and active, using it for notes, games, and mostly as an inferior e-book, until January of 2002, when I quit work. I was pregnant with Maggie, and had planned to work through the pregnancy. She was born in June. She was quite healthy, but the pregnancy was rough on me - I was throwing up sometimes five times a day, and it didn't stop after the first trimester as most do, but continued all pregnancy. I was tired and frazzled. My work was cutting me lots of slack, but even so we decided to have me quit early.
In all the chaos of this, my Visor got set aside, the batteries died, and whatever was on there then has been totally wiped out. The hard drive that the program was on and the data was on ended up having problems and becoming a secondary hard drive on my computer - that computer had OS reinstalls more than once - and I've since switched to a new computer. And worst of all, I cannot find the Visor cradle and installation software. They should be in a box of stuff that I packed up and brought home when I left my last job. I know where that box was in the south Redondo Beach house before we moved. I have NOT been able to find it since we moved.
It ought to be here. We thought for a long time it was in the garage. Karl said he'd seen a box of work stuff. Yesterday we ended up with a massive garage reorg that was exhausting, and still needs some more cleanup. We went through MANY boxes, and found a lot of clothes and linens and toys that we're donating to the Fort Worth collections for the post-hurricane shelters, Karl will be dropping those off today. Karl found that work box for me.
This morning I opened it. Nope, none of that looks like the stuff from my last job's desk. Some of it looks like leftover stuff from the Pioneer job before that.
So still no visor cradle and software. GAH.
One of our goals in the near future is to get Readerware software, and then - probably in October - throw a weekend cataloging party and try to get our friends to come help us catalog the house library. ALL of it, every book in the house, and then get it reorganized and realphabetized on the shelves.
Part of the reason for this is that then I can get it all on the Visor, and stuff that in my purse, so what when I'm standing in a bookstore, as I was last Saturday, saying "Do we have this book? Did we get it in hardback? Read it from the library and promise ourselves we'd get it in paperback, but we haven't yet?", then I can check the Visor and KNOW.
At the moment, the Visor is the problem with this. I had my old Visor up and active, using it for notes, games, and mostly as an inferior e-book, until January of 2002, when I quit work. I was pregnant with Maggie, and had planned to work through the pregnancy. She was born in June. She was quite healthy, but the pregnancy was rough on me - I was throwing up sometimes five times a day, and it didn't stop after the first trimester as most do, but continued all pregnancy. I was tired and frazzled. My work was cutting me lots of slack, but even so we decided to have me quit early.
In all the chaos of this, my Visor got set aside, the batteries died, and whatever was on there then has been totally wiped out. The hard drive that the program was on and the data was on ended up having problems and becoming a secondary hard drive on my computer - that computer had OS reinstalls more than once - and I've since switched to a new computer. And worst of all, I cannot find the Visor cradle and installation software. They should be in a box of stuff that I packed up and brought home when I left my last job. I know where that box was in the south Redondo Beach house before we moved. I have NOT been able to find it since we moved.
It ought to be here. We thought for a long time it was in the garage. Karl said he'd seen a box of work stuff. Yesterday we ended up with a massive garage reorg that was exhausting, and still needs some more cleanup. We went through MANY boxes, and found a lot of clothes and linens and toys that we're donating to the Fort Worth collections for the post-hurricane shelters, Karl will be dropping those off today. Karl found that work box for me.
This morning I opened it. Nope, none of that looks like the stuff from my last job's desk. Some of it looks like leftover stuff from the Pioneer job before that.
So still no visor cradle and software. GAH.
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Date: 2005-09-06 04:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-09-06 04:55 pm (UTC)I've seen VERY cheap cradles for sale on eBay. Lots of people drop their PDAs and crack the screens, then sell off the cradle. It never hurts to have a spare cradle, anyway.
Sam and I have M130s, and Katie has an M125. I can't remember which model
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Date: 2005-09-06 05:03 pm (UTC)I have an original Visor Deluxe (8MB), with the usb cradle.
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Date: 2005-09-06 05:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-06 05:24 pm (UTC)And they're both in storage in San Diego. Arrgh
The Visor, Visor Deluxe, and Visor Prism can use the same type of sync cradles, (the only difference with the Prism cradle is the power to charge the Prism's battery.) They also use the same type of sync cable, which is used on laptops when you don't want to lug the cradle around.
And those cables can be found for about 90 cents and up on eBay. Here's the gentleman I bought mine from:
http://stores.ebay.com/id=19370852&ssPageName=VI:SIB:StoreView
Just look under store categories and click on "PDA - Palm / IPAQ/ Handspring".