PSION Organiser II ================== Well, a PDA from the second half of 1980s [1]. Much older than any Palm (Pilot) PDA. It has no touchscreen but the actual keyboard (but a weird and reduced one, for sure). And the screen is black and white LCD with 2 (two) text lines. The latest and greatest LZ and LZ64 models had 4-line displays (though the physical size of the screen is the same so the text on four-liners is much smaller than on the old two-line models). I have had two working Organisers. One of them has been the LZ model (four line screen and 32kB of RAM) and the second one has been the older CM model (two line screen, 8 kB of RAM). During the time I have got a lot of peripherals (the external memory eraser, two - now defunct - portable printers, a barcode scanner or the thermometer). And several memory modules with various software, of course (a spreadsheet, some translators and so). The problem was that I have not wanted to use the LZ for everything. Moreover, some software is in older versions which were designed for two-line screens. The LZ can use them but the top and bottom lines (and some columns on sides) are not used. So this software uses only a small part of the display. So it have made sense to use an older device in such cases. Unfortunately, the CM model has too small RAM so many of these software pieces refuse to start on it at all. So when there was an opportunity then I have opted for the more modern XP model. It's still a two-liner but it has 16kB of RAM. The machine I have hot is somewhat used but it works and the screen is intact. At the moment I only tested the Spreadsheet [2] (I have versions for both sizes for the screen). I didn't worked in the CM but here it works! A side note: As I wrote in the previous post I decided to limit my purchases of unnecessary gadgets. I ordered this one well before such decision but it arrived only y now. These two-liners have their problems - for example they cannot work with dates after the December 31, 1999 (so, they actually have the Y2k bug). Ihis is not fully fixable, unfortunately. Probably no one expected that they can survive for so long... The LZ models have no such problems. All the models have hard-coded database of cities and counties. So my time zone is "Czechoslovakia" and more eastern time zone is in the "USSR", for example. And there is a West Germany (Bonn) and the East one, too. ;-) The PDA functions are of course somewhat limited, the LZ models are better than the older ones but they still are not comparable with the earliest Palm Pilots (of course, the oldest Pilot is at least 5 years younger than the youngest Organiser II). They are cool and durable devices, anyway. By the way, do the rechargeable 9V batteries exist? References: [1] http://archive.psion2.org/org2/brief1.htm [2] https://www.jaapsch.net/psion/mansprdsht2.htm