Palm Pilot

[Sawtooth1]

What older model Palm PDA are usefull for paperless caching? Got a line on a Palm 111/c for 25.00. Thanks for any help. Sawtooth1

[+bwick99]

I picked up a palm Vx on ebay with all accesories and it works great for paperless cacheing..

[+Miragee]

I have a Palm M500. It has a slot for a memory card which makes it more versatile.

 

I also like the battery, which I've never had to replace in nearly three years . . . and it never runs out of power even if I don't recharge it for days.

[+WanderTwins]

I actually have a palm IIIc that I got for free and it worked perfectly for paperless caching today. My only complaint was that at times the screen could be a bit hard to see because of the sun, but besides that it worked great. The battery held up for 5 full hours of caching (with a little less than 50% used), so if you need it to go for days and days of caching without a charge, that could present a problem.

[+FlyfishermanMike]

I have an older Sony Clie (runs palm OS - identical to palm) PEG-SJ22. Great little pda. Has sony memory stick slot, high res color screen, and an internal lithium rechargable battery. Two years ago I paid $100 for it at a retail store. You could probably get one for pretty cheap on eBay now. GSAK on the computer and Cachemate on the palm. Add a pocket query and I have the best of the paperless realm. Life is good.

 

^^ike

[+kevenh]

I'm a Palm newbie!

What is the history of these units?

Above you've mentioned several models, but which is the newest, etc.?

This topic must come up often, are there older discussions on line?

 

Searching for 'palm' is overwhelming!

Ta

[+kevenh]

OK, this is a good place to start here

[xrabohrok]

I have a palm/magellan snap-on. It just goes right onto the back of the m515 and wala! What I do is copy and paste the coords, hints, and desicriptions into the "notes" part of the sync program. Then, after syncing, I copy and paste the coords to the gps program. Copy and pasting is a little hard with the graffiti pad, though.

[+Polar B's]

Any palm work just the same as the other. However to use Cachemate Palm OS 3.0 or later is required.

 

edit to add: which is all of them except the very two oldest (pilot and palmpilot)

Edited October 7, 2005 by Polar B's

[+kingquad]

I have a Palm IIIC, and it works awesome for paperless caching,.....the only thing you might want to get after is cachemate for 7-8$, and download GSAK. it's the best thing we ever had for caching. we go on a week trip somewhere, I load up all the caches for that area on my 60C and the Palm, 500 or so caches. and while driving I check on the gps map and when we see a cache, take the palm out and read the description of the cache, and if it seems easy or fun enough, we just do it.

[+TeamAO]

Most Palms work very well with paperless caching.

 

However, our team uses Pocket PC's, which I feel are INFINATELY better.

 

But, my brother uses Palm and it works swell.

[rynd]

I think walmart has the Zire 21 for 49 bucks.

[+GSVNoFixedAbode]

I've got an old 2nd hand Palm M100 with cachemate - brilliant, fast, simple paperless caching .