[nylug-talk] OT - city wide GPS question???

[R. Drew Davis]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 12:16 -0500, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, R. Drew Davis wrote:
> 
> > My SONY TJ37
> 
> Refresh my memory: didn't Sony stop production of the Clie (when I first 
> came to NYC, I worked for a PDA seller...).

Sigh, yes.   They discontinued all their PalmOS PDA's.   There still
seems to be a brisk interest in them on eBay.

> > has a PDF viewer in it, but when I downloaded a PDF file of
> > the NYC subway map from the web to my memory stick, it wouldn't open in
> > the PDA.   There were no messages, but I figured it was something to do
> > with memory limitations that kept it from opening even a peephole view
> > of the big map.
> 
> I sometimes come across this problem too. I can open a PDF of the NYC 
> subway map on my 770 but not a PDF of the London subway map - go figure.
> 
> An expensive alternative is to find a really really small PC like the OQO 
> (oqo.com) which has more memory and beefier processor.

A really small PC is still a really big PDA.

Drew