November 9, 2000 held an event that had been brewing for a very long time. Long and well (though in absentia) familiar to conference people in one way or another connected with the PDA Palm, gathered together to meet and resolve the issues that are difficult to discuss with the help of electronic means.
The action has already started about seven in the evening, when near the entrance to MakTsentr where and held the first meeting pilotomanov gathered the first fifteen people. Actually, the appointed time (19.30) in the dining room MakTsentr present for about forty people, which was a complete surprise to all. According to the experience of similar collections from St. Petersburg, expected about 10-15 people, but Moscow - a city more, and interest in the CCP appears to be higher here. So that the chamber of the situation did not work - dining room was apparently small:). This does not prevent communication and exchange, electronic business cards and programs on the IR port.
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The meeting started with a few uneasy, but as soon as all the little obzhilis, began a fruitful discussion and heated debate, were born Palma of all sizes and colors, flashing infrared ports (that nobody saw, of course). As promised, Alexander Moiseev gave a hand, "elephants" in the form of tips for the stylus, which were analyzed with the greatest eagerness, as already very well known and does not scratch the screen. Conversion in action. On the tables there were cakes, sweets and tea.
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From hPCru on the tables appeared Sony Clie c Memory Stick, Visor Deluxe with the module SpringBoard Xircom Modem, TRG Pro, as well as a folding keyboard for Palm V (Vx), finally Russified and running without glitches. Large and well-deserved interest was the Sony Clie: easy, fast, stylish, with the right, in the opinion of many, backlight and clear screen. In general, the materiel was the most diverse. At present several pilotovke Palm IIIc with my very happy owners, many PalmV, several Palm Vx, Palm III, IIIe, IIIx, and at least two TRG Pro. None Visor, except maktsentrovskogo noted.
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Talked a lot about systems, GPS. It was as a GPS receiver, and how their relationship with the CPC, as well as the currently available maps and a map to a grid. Odzhin of working with the Palm variants was demonstrated by Comrade. Stirlitz (aka Boris Yeltsin in the recent past), for which a dense group of the most desperate had to go to an already frosted patio. Especially waiting for Mr. Aleshin, which represents the standard Windows CE, which is indeed often the case using GPS. Upon arrival, Aleshin dense group made a secondary round of the courtyard, where they were on the right to assess some of the advantages of Cassiopeia in relation to GPS.True, the intricacies of wires connecting GPS receivers and PDAs, have caused some skepticism. At the meeting, the participants appeared, and all without the CCP. Very sober reasoning that such a meeting can learn much more than the sellers stores, they zadvali lot of questions that received no less than pleased to answer. Present were even two people from Dnepropetrovsk with questions about the use of Palm and QuickSheet for automated collection of information on production. On the sidelines were talking and Palm M100, its success / failure as a mass device. Widely and sadly condemning the subject incomprehensible demise of the St. Petersburg team sites palm.spb.ru. Details, so no one knows. Another big topic of conversation was the discussion of organizational issues: what to do next, how to organize pilotovki etc. It was clear that for such gatherings wall maktsentrovskoy dining room too small - we were preparing for an influx of less. That resolution, adopted unanimously: 1. Pilotovki will be held once a month every second Thursday of the month.
