Psion Series 5mx Unboxing after re-finding it from storage [HD/720p]

Yesterday I went and organized one of my warehouses (read: I dove in to the heap of crap) and while at it found something great that I had forgotten there...

As you guessed from the title, the little rascal that I found from there was my some-time ago forgotten Psion palmtop-computer. The Series 5mx machine in question has 16MB of RAM and same amount of ROM, 36MHz RISC-based ARM 710T Processor and a 640x240 touch-screen with 16 shades of gray. The system supports Compact-Flash cards at least up to 1GB. Package is almost complete, but it lacks the connectivity software CD-ROM (sleeve is there but disk is a no-show)...

Series 5mx runs EPOC(actually EPOC32, but always referred just as EPOC), a 32bit Graphical Multitasking(preemptive) Single-User Operating-System with Memory-Protection for PDA's, which later laid foundation for what's known as Symbian OS today... EPOC is base-system for Psion Series 5mx and on top of it is running the EIKON graphical user-interface. Series 5mx is also capable to run Debian Linux (with X) with special kernel hacks to a 2.4 ARM-kernel.

In this video I'll be unboxing it, later there will be a boot-up video...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Psion
• Series
• 5mx
• PDA
• Computer
• CF
• Touch-screen
• EPOC
• Symbian
• OS
• Linux
• Unix
• ARM
• 16MB
• RISC
• Palmtop