A request...

[katster]

So, dwhagar has been a very good and longtime friend of mine. And he knows that I know a lot of geeks. Thus, he was hoping I could use my network to find him a cable that he cannot acquire any other way but really needs.

He writes (the post is flocked, so I can't point you directly at it, but this is the important part):

...with some luck the opportunity came along to get (for free) an HPJornada 690 Handheld PC. It runs Windows CE v2.11, has full officecapabilities (as in Pocket Word, Access, Excel, and Outlook) however, Ihave no cable for it so I can't sync up Outlook and Word docs have tobe in either very old Word formats or RTF/TXT. I'm using the latter ofthose options. It has a keyboard... Specs Here, with image!

Anyway, he's looked for a cable, and he can't find anybody selling one, so if you either have one, or know somebody who would have one, we'd both be in your debt.

Thanks in advance for any possible help.

Comments

looks like

[andreas_schaefer]

part F1224-80004 is what he needs - check HP site for cost , a search at e-bay got me : http://cgi.ebay.de/HP-F1224-80004-CABLE-SERIAL-SYNCH-F122480004_W0QQitemZ120008385186QQihZ002QQcategoryZ162QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
which I file under "charging an arm and a leg AND for the cost of the cutting off and the knife" - if HP is too expensive an ongoing search&alert on ebay may help.

Other than that: looks like the Jornada has a PCMCIA slot - it should be possible to plug some interface there ( serial?,ethernet ?) and work through that. ( there might be a slight problem with finding and installing drivers if that hardware is not recognized by the CE system )

[neverupdated.livejournal.com]

Ebay!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120013185933&category=3762

[fb.livejournal.com]

I'm unclear exactly what cable you're looking for, but I doubt I could help anyway. Have you checked Fry's? It's right on 80, don't think it's too far from you. There's also an electronics/computer surplus store somewhere in Sacramento called HSC that might have something.