Post Ab61j4w95CD1t9TIwa by SinclairSpeccy@bitbang.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6gSSqY0pKcllo0 by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:28:50Z
       
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       magine it's 1997 and you're a Japanese businessman. You're traveling the country for work, and want to update your personal web page with photos of interesting things you see. You have an early digital camera you bought, and you have your work-issued PDA, but obviously without a PC such a multimedia task can't be completed? You're going to have to wait until your get back home...#RetroComputing #PDA #HandheldPC #WindowsCE #mb
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6ho7pUvvW5uaCu by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:32:13Z
       
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       Now this included software doesn't just transfer photos. In fact, it doesn't even have a "just transfer photos" function.Enter Casio Argo-Builder. It's a program for Windows CE that lets you make websites. It has templates for all kinds of databases - recipe collections, favorite restaurants, and one option is called "QV Album".Within QV Album it lets you import fotos, add a title and some metadata, and when you save it, you get a little gallery website!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6ibOsILfyuxw0m by nishi@hkgk.nishi.boats
       2023-10-24T11:34:58.264048Z
       
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       @kalleboo >家族リスト?? what who would forget their family
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6igiYWbOFPSBIe by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:29:49Z
       
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       But that's where you'd be wrong! As long as you were fully in the Casio ecosystem, all you needed was this little cable, and a world of integration opens up!Software built-in to the Cassiopeia supports transferring photos directly from a Casio QV-series digital camera, letting you view it in 4 shades of grayscale glory!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6iynTJ419TucTo by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:34:14Z
       
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       Now you can put this on your PCMCIA flash memory card and stick it in your PowerBook 540c, but you're a Japanese businessman, so stuck a PHS card in there and FTP up your site wirelessly! OK so I can’t do this anymore since those networks are dead, but there *are* Orinoco Wi-Fi drivers for this thing which I am going to have to try. And I found a Buffalo Ethernet card in the bin of PCMCIA cards at HARD OFF where their driver download page for Windows CE is still online… https://www.buffalo.jp/support/download/detail/?dl_contents_id=60424
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6j0vLOlVG4uJnM by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:30:45Z
       
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       Interestingly enough, when you select a photo to import, the preview of what image you’re about to import is shown on the camera screen, not the PDA screen. This is obviously because the actual serial transfer of the photo is way too slow for preview purposes, but it's kind of odd in practice.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6jMC4JmMK2rIwq by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:40:16Z
       
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       @nishi A Japanese Businessman in 1997, clearly!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6k83CO3miTFWXg by nishi@hkgk.nishi.boats
       2023-10-24T11:40:35.075954Z
       
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       @kalleboo damn 1997 was dementia year then
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6kvKFBTXBIIsLY by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:41:11Z
       
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       @nishi All those mandatory drinking events kill braincells I tells ya!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5t6mJp3afHVYlxAW by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:34:48Z
       
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       Now this digital camera also supported being hooked up to bunch of other stuff in Casio's broad range of products. You could import photos into their word processors, they had printers, and even a special floppy drive so you could save photos to floppy without a PC in the mix!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab5tXYv6yqprluzAky by SinclairSpeccy@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:45:38Z
       
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       @kalleboo @nishi If I go back to 1997 will I get dementia? 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab61j3rr3fBOZYSMcK by kalleboo@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:46:25Z
       
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       @SinclairSpeccy @nishi You’re not a Japanese Businessman, are you? Then you’ll be fine
       
 (DIR) Post #Ab61j4w95CD1t9TIwa by SinclairSpeccy@bitbang.social
       2023-10-24T11:47:10Z
       
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       @kalleboo @nishi I hope I am NOT a Japanese businessman 👀