[pianotech] [OT] PDAs used for tuning

[Gregor _]

Here in Europe (at least in Germany) the Palm Treo comes with Windows, not with Palm-OS.

Gregor

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:51:05 -0600
From: jim at moypiano.com
To: pmc033 at earthlink.net; pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] [OT] PDAs used for tuning

Certainly in the tech world it is "obsolete," existing in a state of not being desired, up-to-date, or update-able.  Not to say it isn't useful, in the same way Windows XP is.  I know you can still buy software for Palm OS, but even its vendor has moved on, and in its last couple of years on Treo I'd say the writing was on the wall that it was on the way out.  And so it goes...


Jim

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:32 PM, pmc033 at earthlink.net <pmc033 at earthlink.net> wrote:





Hi, Jim:
    I'm not exactly on the cutting edge of PDA evolution, but I use a Palm Treo.  I know it doesn't run Tunelab or RCT, but is it really obsolete?  I have never used a more bulletproof program as the Palm.  Yeah, it's slow as molasses compared to other OS's but it always works.  I'm not aware of it becoming obsolete or unsupported.  Is there something I don't know?  Curious..

    Paul McCloud
    San diego
 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Jim Moy 
To: pianotech at ptg.org

Sent: 08/16/2009 7:13:45 PM 

Subject: Re: [pianotech] PDAs used for tuning


No, the Tungstens all run Palm OS, a now-obsolete PDA operating system on which Tunelab will not run.  I do not know of any ETD programs that run on it.  I bought a $60 Dell Axim on eBay to run Tunelab.


Jim


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Edward Steltzer <steltzer at 207me.com> wrote:

Hi - please pardon a newbie (to this list, but 20 years in tuning....)  for a question that may have been answered before (maybe more than once!).


I have some familiarity with Tune-Lab;  I own a Palm Tungsten E PDA, but have never used anything other than my old standby Korg AT-12 tuner for the actual tuning.  I use the "Documents-to-go" spreadsheet in the PDA to record my tuning business time, distance, total and customer information.


Perhaps someone will enlighten me about possible uses of my PDA in the actual tuning process.   Thanks so much!

Ed Steltzer,     Kennebunkport Maine 




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