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| These are still, in my opinion, the most user friendly PDAs. In addition to Palm themselves, companies like Alphasmart and Sony have produced devices which use the Palm Operating System (also known as PalmOS). | These are still, in my opinion, the most user friendly PDAs. In addition to Palm themselves, companies like Alphasmart and Sony have produced devices which use the Palm Operating System (also known as PalmOS). | ||
| - | ====== Backing Up ====== | + | ====== Backing up to a Workstation ====== |
| PalmOS provides an effective and well debugged process for storing an image of the PDA's memory on a host computer's disk. Called 'Hotsync', this stores all the basic data held in the PDA to a user directory on the host. | PalmOS provides an effective and well debugged process for storing an image of the PDA's memory on a host computer's disk. Called 'Hotsync', this stores all the basic data held in the PDA to a user directory on the host. | ||
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| Under this path may be found various directories and individual files. | Under this path may be found various directories and individual files. | ||
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| + | ====== Backing up to a SD Card ====== | ||
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| + | Several Palm devices, as well as some from other manufacturers, are fitted with a SD card slot. Palm does not supply software to save the PDA's memory to a card, which may seem a strange omission. Fortunately, others have taken up the challenge. There are various programs available, some of which are free. [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/handypalmstuff/files/NVBackup/|NvBackup]] is both free and effective. | ||
| ====== Retaining a History ====== | ====== Retaining a History ====== | ||