Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life
My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
While I'm on the subject of FlashAdapters, I would be remiss if I didn't mention Keith Hudson of MatchBook Products. Keith developed the first commercially available FlashAdapter, originally only to help out those (like myself) who were unable to put one together themselves. Even many of those who had the skills to build it themselves opted to purchase one of his more polished units.
I still have and use several of his MatchBook Drives and without them, I never would have gotten involved with using a FlashAdapter and would not likely be where I am now as a PDA user. In addition to providing a sorely needed service, Keith provided a lot of free support and encouragement to the Visor community. I suspect that he came out behind, financially, when all was said and done, but he never lost his good humor or his willingness to help out.
So, I send out a hearty thanks to Keith and his MatchBook Drives! I've since lost touch with him, but I sincerely hope he's doing well.
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Once upon a time, someone came up with an idea for an expandable handheld computer. Actually, there have been a lot of handhelds over the years (going back as far as the 70's) and expandability is nothing new. What made this one different was the people behind it -- the same people that made PDA a household term.
Yep, the three wise men (slash woman) who made the Palm Pilot a standard executive tool went on to create a new company with new innovations. That company was Handspring. Their Visor line of PDA's featured the ability to add hardware and software with their Springboard modules. This was a great idea that just didn't take off the way it should have.
Someone, however, figured out that not only was the Springboard connector physically identical to the PCMCIA standard, it was darn near the same thing electronically too. Knowing that, they figured that a PCMCIA-to-CompactFlash adapter just might work with a little rewiring. Well, it did. Of course, hardware without software isn't much good to anyone. And that's why Dave Kessler of Kopsis Engineering gets my hearty thanks.
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