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My PalmPilot, the device I refer to as my spare brain, seems to be seriously broken.
It's had a bad habit for a while of losing the screen mapping: that is, where I tapped wasn't where it would read the input as coming from. This is more than annoying when the area needed has been mapped off the edge of the screen. I'd been dealing with this by keeping a close eye on it, and redoing it every day or two whether it seemed to need it or not. And, when that failed, a hard reset would fix it. (Once, dropping it on the floor fixed it.)
Today the hard reset didn't solve the problem: in fact, it left me with a machine that believes the date to be 2 October, and I can't get to the part of the screen that should tell it to set the date to today. Running a Q-tip around the edge didn't help, though it picked up significant dirt. Dropping the thing didn't work.
I think I'm going to be spending more money I don't have, to replace this: but I'll be getting the cheapest usable solution (I want a PalmOS device, and while I'll accept low-end--I'm not using the 8 MB I have on this Vx, and I don't have color now and thus won't miss it--under the circumstances I don't want to go on Ebay or any such and pick up someone else's used machine, lest I find myself where I am now except poorer).
There's a paper address book around here somewhere, and all the data are safely backed up on my hard drive.
It's had a bad habit for a while of losing the screen mapping: that is, where I tapped wasn't where it would read the input as coming from. This is more than annoying when the area needed has been mapped off the edge of the screen. I'd been dealing with this by keeping a close eye on it, and redoing it every day or two whether it seemed to need it or not. And, when that failed, a hard reset would fix it. (Once, dropping it on the floor fixed it.)
Today the hard reset didn't solve the problem: in fact, it left me with a machine that believes the date to be 2 October, and I can't get to the part of the screen that should tell it to set the date to today. Running a Q-tip around the edge didn't help, though it picked up significant dirt. Dropping the thing didn't work.
I think I'm going to be spending more money I don't have, to replace this: but I'll be getting the cheapest usable solution (I want a PalmOS device, and while I'll accept low-end--I'm not using the 8 MB I have on this Vx, and I don't have color now and thus won't miss it--under the circumstances I don't want to go on Ebay or any such and pick up someone else's used machine, lest I find myself where I am now except poorer).
There's a paper address book around here somewhere, and all the data are safely backed up on my hard drive.