So, what happens when you take a Handspring that died one day and wouldn't recover after various testing, and leave it in a box to take apart one day to see if it was anything obvious, but mostly forget about it for a year, and then pick it up and put batteries in it?  It starts working, of course.  I had tried every trick I knew about, hard resetting, leaving the batteries out for a week, taking out the expansion card, etc. without any luck.

So, I don't know what happened, nor how stable it currently is, but we had only made a backup to the local memory disk, and not to our hard drive, so we can at least get stuff off of it now. 

Posted by jondaley on May 13, 2008, 6:51 pm | Read 633 times
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uhhh... I'll have to back it up later, since my computer is currently busy downloading a 20MB file from an external USB drive via a 115200 bps serial port in DOS...

115200 is faster than any modem I have used, (considering my first modem had a "high speed" button that jumped it up to 1200 bps), but I also probably never used files anywhere near 20MB back then.

This particular USB device *can* talk at 50bps, but it is so painful that I didn't put that option into the application, and just left 2400 as the minimum.

Posted by jondaley on May 13, 2008, 7:03 pm
 
   
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