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Gave $40 for a vintage Palm Pilot at a flea market. Junk.
Picked up a Palm Pilot Vx last weekend. The guy swore it worked. Got it home and the battery is completely dead. Won't hold a charge for more than 10 minutes. Tried finding a replacement online but they're all third party junk. Anyone have luck fixing these old things or am I out the cash?
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anthony98924d ago
...wait hold up, you actually expected it to work? Like out of a cardboard box at a flea market for forty bucks? I mean I get being disappointed but that's kind of like buying a 90s laptop and being shocked the battery is toast. Those things are ancient history at this point, the batteries were basically designed to die after like five years max. I've seen people drop way more on these and just accept it's a project, not a working device.
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michaelrodriguez1mo ago
...so you're complaining about a thirty year old computer not working perfectly out of a cardboard box at a flea market? Honestly man, for $40 you got a perfectly good paperweight or a very specific conversation starter. I don't get why everyone expects these things to just boot up and sync like it's 2001. The battery thing is basically a given at this point. You could probably find a dead one for $5 and just swap the shells, but the real fun is trying to retroactively sync it with a modern computer. Half the charm is the struggle, you know?
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umab861mo ago
Honestly I used to think people were just being dramatic about how bad these old Palms are. I bought one a few years ago thinking I'd be the cool hipster with a retro PDA, and man I had the same rude awakening. Had to buy a special serial cable off some weird site, install ancient drivers on an old laptop running XP, and spend like 3 hours just to sync my contacts. The whole process was pure pain but when it finally worked I kinda got it lol. Now I look at dead ones at flea markets and I'm like "I see the vision.
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