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Re: getting MemSafe to work on a Palm Vx

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On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:55:50 -0700 (PDT), JGE wrote:

>I'm still using a Palm Vx.  I gave up on Desktop/Hotsync support a long time ago; I just use a MemSafe for backup (it's a little flash-memory based device that plugs into the connector on the Vx).  I have a new Vx I bought off eBay, and I'd like to restore the contents of my MemSafe to it.   But it doesn't have the app.  So I need to do a one-time HotSync that installs the app (it puts it into flash memory on the Vx).
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>Any thoughts about how to do this ?  I have the install CD for Palm Desktop. I guess I just need to get ahold of a Windows machine that's equally ancient (I believe it has to be 32-bit machine running nothing newer than Windows Vista or XP.  If I could find one, it'd probably be cheap :-)
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>Any other suggestions (besides joining the 21st Century and using my smartphone for this stuff) ?

Is your old Palm Vx still working? And is the MemSafe program
installed on the old Palm Vx? If the answer is yes for both questions,
then you could try to beam the MemSafe program by IR from one Palm Vx
to the other.

Alternativly you could look for an old(!) cellphone with IR support
and a SD-Card. Copy the MemSafe program to the SD-Card by any PC, and
beam the File from the phone to the Palm Vx by IR. (This works for my
old Nokia 3110c [and an even older Palm IIIc].)

Cheers, Heinz

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getting MemSafe to work on a Palm Vx JGE <jge@cs.unc.edu> - 2015-10-26 14:55 -0700
  Re: getting MemSafe to work on a Palm Vx Heinz Stege <public.215.967@arcor.de> - 2015-10-27 06:34 +0100
    Re: getting MemSafe to work on a Palm Vx JGE <jge@cs.unc.edu> - 2015-10-27 21:36 -0700
    Re: getting MemSafe to work on a Palm Vx JGE <jge@cs.unc.edu> - 2015-10-28 11:59 -0700
      Re: getting MemSafe to work on a Palm Vx Heinz Stege <public.215.967@arcor.de> - 2015-10-29 00:09 +0100
        Re: getting MemSafe to work on a Palm Vx JGE <jge@cs.unc.edu> - 2015-10-28 18:14 -0700

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