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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: MM0FMF
date: 2019-02-02 19:49:00
subject: Re: Connecting to an iPad

On 02/02/2019 18:53, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:36:18 +0000, mm0fmf wrote:
>
>> On 02/02/2019 14:39, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> On Sat, 02 Feb 2019 08:27:53 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>>> The Ipad should show up as another  storage volume if you're running
>>>>> a graphical file manager on the RPi.
>>>>
>>>> You have never worked with an iOS device, have you?
>>>>
>>> ..got it in one. Never owned a tablet: never needed one.
>>>
>>> PNAs are a different case - essential for some stuff I do. Now that
>>> WinCE is no longer a thing I wish you could buy PNAs with 3.5" or 4.2"
>>> transreflective touch screens that run some form of Linux, but an RPi
>>> with 2.8" or 7" touch screen (and no case) is about as good as it gets.
>>>
>>>
>> I've a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux PDA for sale.
>
> That looks like a well made bit of kit - very similar in size to a iPAQ
> 3630 by the look of it, which makes it too big for my requirement - I
> can't use anything bigger than a 3.5" screen or it will start obscuring
> stuff on the panel behind it. The Medion GoPal S3747 I'm currently using
> is 105x82x26 mm:
>
> https://www.gopal-navigator.de/wiki/S_3747
> https://www.gregorie.org/gliding/pna/
>
> The second link shows my one, running my preferred LK8000 software and
> sitting in an apple tree in my garden.
>
>
I had to spend some time searching for a measuring stick calibrated in
such archaic units. My old schoool ruler from 1974 was pressed into use.

The visible screen is 2.9 x 2.4 of your imperial units.

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