Napalm

Original article is at Kompyuferre becoming one of the first Russian winner of the Palm m100, I have not felt much inconvenience from its two megabytes of RAM, except that they had to abandon the large but tasty programs. A good dictionary or a map, as well as "War and Peace" in its entirety - all this for him. But one day, wandering through some palmolyubivomu site, I came across a forum for discussion about the upgrade. It seems that discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the two competing schools. This story reminded me of those days when I by chance found fidoshnoy node, and not just a node, and a major hub, and with a useless modem Sportster 14400. The line was horrible, the relationship now and then vomited out the links (especially non-resident) did not have time to dig soap, debris which grew every night. On a decent modem was not enough money, but fortunately, my Sportster was apgreydabelnym, ie using the programmer easily turn into a top model Courier, put in a good USRobotics modems of different classes of almost the same stuffing. Scraped together some money and taking donations links and point, I went to the attic of some institute, where did one of apgreyderov. The whole country there were then only a few people, and they compete fiercely with each other. However, we must pay tribute, almost always in the form of censorship. If the modem simply reprogrammed the DSP, then the "Palma" upgrade is to increase memory - from two to eight megabytes. He yield, judging from the list on the site apgreydera, almost all low-end models the Palm "," Vayzorov », TRG Pro and other palmoobraznyh. Is it worth it ... if we subtract from the price of m105, which are present unknown 8 MB of memory, the price of m100, where these are only two megabytes, and just get the upgrade price is almost, well, maybe a little more. That is, if you talk to an adult, it is better to buy normal "Palm", because it saves on the upgrade is still a dime. A guarantee, of course, lost. However, I wanted adventure, especially because no assurance from the very beginning of my cars were not. And I have them (adventure) received. Night, an apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, where Max has arrived for a day or two. He comes from another city, if recruited more than twenty orders. It happens about once every couple of months. There in the capital and its apgreydery otherwise orders from Max would be great. Background.

Upgrades "Palma" began as soon as he appeared in nature, then there is a "Pilot". In addition to memory, which can be supplied from 4 to 12 (!) Megabyte upgrade are the processors and other parts of accidents handhelds. So, Palm V successfully accelerated up to speed Vx. One of the nice collection of links on the subject (including the instructions "do it yourself") is located at http://www.interlog.com/ ~ tcharron/Palm8M/upgradeservice.html. What did not come up with craftsmen! Much of their effort is aimed at combating "Guard", "Energizer" and "Dyurasel. You can remake "cradle" that Palm is not discharged, resting in it, or even turn into the charger cradle (http://www.handy.ru/read/konkurs/article14.html, http://sergeyf.palmclub.ru / ch_crdl.htm). Lovers of weirdness may be advisable to alter Palm to connect an external DC source (http://www.fastlight.demon.co.uk/jg/palm.html). These palmovody do not stop, because by using a soldering iron and some parts can create the audio adapter (http://www.massena.com/darrin/pilot/luiz/extaudio.htm). But that's not all. Interested parties can at home to build a simple controller that allows you to connect to the Palm usual keyboard with PS / 2. To control via the infrared port on the computer from which you have taken away this keyboard ... "Palm" falls on the surgery, in this case an ordinary kitchen table. Housing fasten the two screws and four plastic latches.Impression that the m100 specially made ​​so that it crashed as soon as possible, broken, or drowned in the smallest pub puddle. And his owner, has podsazhenny a palm tree, soon ran to the store for the next model. The more so because the contents of the notebook he has more of a piece of plastic with a screen. First, however, flies off the plastic cap, which is based on two small and fragile plastic bumps. With this fight, pridelyvaya a lid springs from ballpoint pens - in the manner common with a spiral notebook. Sit down on the soldering iron bed, one-touch - and the old memory chip falls off from the "motherboard". "The hardest thing - to find suitable vosmimegabaytye modules, - says Max. - It uses ordinary EDO with low power consumption, but its hard to get. " Now, apparently, the memory was found, and the new "cockroach" takes the place of the old. But that's not all, scalpel cut some invisible from a distance meter jumpers and soldered new ones. That's it. Palm, wiser during neurosurgical operations in four times, is again in his body, from pre-cleaned with a toothbrush thick-thick layer of dust. After some time, dust or moisture, are easily penetrate through the holes in the body, destroy m100. But when it will be - is unknown. As Palm behaved farther? As befits his elder brother m105, to a level which he matured more than a year after birth. Everything was great. Except for one annoying detail, as evidenced by the regular change of batteries. In an instant, Palm once forgot all its contents and loaded as after a cold reset. "This is a bug of m100, - replied by e-mail Max. - There lishensky ionistor worth it. The problem is basically solved for 60 rubles. Sources, Materials:

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The authors, translation:

Mikhail Popov