Thanks!

reminds me of the nokia n900, which we used to run Debian on.

No idea why I was recommended this video but I guess KZfaq know what I might want to watch before I go lol. Cool stuff. I suppose I do like repair videos and this is extra cool

i still use my sharp zaurus sl-5500 (s) angstrom and open zaurus was a blast

God that’s super cute

Can it launch the game " Global Thermonuclear War."?

Holy shit, a few months ago I was trying to find an old game I played in my childhood and I couldn't remember the name. I wasn't expecting to find it in a totally unrelated video lmao (it was Heretic).

try sunvox on it. should run fine.

Depeche mode! Nice song

for old Pc like this one I recommend : Xfce , LXDE/LXQt , Flubox, or maybe batocera for emulation.

What kind of output does it have? I like the form factor. Would be awesome if it is modernized with usbC input/output.

I love the convertible laptop format, It makes so much sense. Versus the yoga format where you flip the thing in half and now you have an exposed keyboard waiting to get damaged and dirty on whatever surface you put it on and yes in some cases still functional so don't bump any keys. I've been running around with a GPD pocket three for the past year and every time somebody sees it they're like what is that thing. And I can't help but think that is what laptops could've been but instead the convertible format didn't go very far other than a select few models and it's not like it's that much more complicated to build.

Ah, yes: the Depeche Mode Menu.

i had the w810i and i loved it, later i got the w880i and i still miss that one, it had a web brower so i could scroll the news and listen to a podcast on my way to work

Well that was a lovely little story. Also this is 100% what men do with everything.

And I have 3.19 GhZ + 2.80 Ghz Still I think I Don't have powerful device

Now We have Android powerful than others old devices 😢 But I wish I could enjoy those When I was 5/6/7 😢😢 Whatever we have Windows Emulator now...

I still have my original Zaurus, in good condition and running X11 instead of Qtopia, complete with a suite of applications I wrote. It's a cool little thing. I used to use it as a second screen at my desk, like export a window from my desktop with a reference manual open while I was working, or display system stats from my PC on it. Or I'd use it as a book reader. I even made it work as a wireless controller to pilot a miniature submarine I was working on, complete with live video from underwater. But while it could do a little bit of everything, it wasn't particularly good at any of those tasks, so I eventually stopped trying to use it as a PDA and got an old Palm m500 super cheap. I'm pretty sure I used that Palm at least 10X more than I ever used the Zaurus, since it was really good at things I genuinely needed. Meanwhile, with the Zaurus it was a struggle to find ways it could be useful to me, and what I found was mostly just novelties I could live without. Its deskop-linux-like community software ecosystem never got a chance to flourish, because of Trolltech and then Google placing profit above the common good. I still wonder what could have been, without corporate interference.

Never experienced but Experienced by You Awesome technology

I love Themes From Nokia Symbian, Nokia Java & Windows 7.. Themes are dead for nokia nowadays so I hate nokia But Thank You Xiaomi For Themes Samsung has too but I love Xiaomi themes same as Symbian, Nokia Java, Sony Ericsson or Windows

I had my First nokia In 2012/12/12 It was Xpress Music It was my first As A pc or Console Or Camera Or MusicBox I was 13/14 😢 I have played so many best Games on my phone

You're so brilliant, I know phones a2z Just When It's on if it dead dead I can't fix it I love your work I wish I could learn

I wonder if can be used as a terminal for remote desktop telnet and stuff like that

Cool video - but what to do with it? Would you be able to install another linux distro like ubuntu?

the hard drive sound was better than most asmr videos, also your voice with the background noise is relaxing

making and designing theses probably harder than making a flash drive.

You can pretend to be a hacker from 2005 and go to a bunch of ATM's and random keypads, attach a wire and see how people react! (also film it)

Hey Janus, great video! You gave me an itch to make a cyberdeck linux machine again! Something just like this. Thanks!

My Linux handheld is an NDS lol

once i heard the sstv signal i was immediately like "Portal!"

I want one of these so badly now

I want one now lmao

very nice video!

Cabaret Voiltaire used as a test track.... i approve

Yes! Finally someone in recent times interested in the Sharp Zaurus. I bought 2 of these in 05, 06 and they were very fun at the time, There were many different "ROMs" made for these back in the day. it's too bad Sharp discontinued these after the SLC3200. I heard that Sharp Japan developed these clamshells to show off their LCD screen technology in those days. I have a 3100 and a 3200. Both with expired batteries. I have since taken out the batteries, but replacement batteries are not available in stores these days. There used to be a large forum with many users with their Zaurii devices. The main forum was called OESF forum. I think that stood for "Open Embedded Software Foundation" It may still be on the wayback machine. I don't think anyone ever developed a 'G' driver for WIFI G. By then these were discontinued.

I wanted one of those so badly

This is what I have been trying to build with the rasoberry pi / orange pi zero for years. Its been on te back burner but with the release of the orange pi zero 2w and radxa zero 2 I think it well within reach.

That Microdrive is awesome!

A new Janus video always means it's going to be a good day. I absolutely love your video style, unique devices, and expert information. Your troubleshooting is next level! Awesome video!

when I was young, I thinked pocket pc is future, I dreamed about this

Telstra-branded SD card? Intruiguing! Where'd you get this from? Cause that logo is for the largest Telecommunications company here in Australia.

I'm shocked you didn't try to play quake!

Excellent narrative and presentation of debugging and getting an old device to work. Always was fascinated reading about these tiny marvels back in the day and now that we have much more powerful phones in our pockets daily, it is a bittersweet joy to mentally return to the days when these highly integrated devices were a practically unattainable curiosity from far away lands. Thank you for the journey!

Awesome video as always! A few small notes: 2:42 if you happen to have a link to the original JP manual, I can let you know how direct the translation is. Something tells me that's not even close to the original though :) 5:12 Windows XP doesn't recognize any of the Linux filesystems, and will just report the partitions as Unknown or RAW. If it were unformatted, the bar above it would be black, and it would say that. I was going to say that I'd love to see Windows 2000 running on this thing, but I don't think there were any publicly available ARM builds...

Motorola also made a phone called the i886. The candybar phone runs Android, but Motorola said that the OS is not Android.

let's GOOOO! cool little machines that are little and cool

My dad still uses this to this day. He takes it every where he goes. It's his mp3 music / internet raidio (He built the app that runs on linux)

4:41 Not a Toshiba.

very nice choice of outro music. Subbed because of good content, reminding me a litte bit of LGR's Oddware series of weird computer peripherals and such.

Hidden service menus save lives - some time ago I bought a Sony Ericsson Xperia X2. There are no tools for flashing this phone. For my luck there already was installed system with my native language but it was code locked. I found only one video that showed how to access hidden service menu which had an option to wipe data and reset device. So now I am one happy owner of Xperia X2. Anyways, another great video! Glad there is someone with love and enough patience to save such rare devices - pieces of long gone world :)