Still carrying a PDA? Type notes wirelessly on the cheap

The $5 IR Keyboard:  Targus
If you happen to still have a PDA and you’re looking for a cheap IR keyboard, look no further than BG Micro. BG Micro has slashed $55 off the former retail price of the discontinued Targus Universal Wireless Keyboard (PA870U). For a Lincoln (that’s $5 not 1¢), you can quickly start jotting notes on that antiquated Palm OS or Pocket PC handheld with nary a stylus in sight. Just grab the drivers from the Targus archived support section and you’re in business. That is, if your business still runs on a PDA.

(Image: Targus Group International)

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This is exactly what I'm looking for... maybe. Will this work with a Zire 72? The Zire 72 is a Bluetooth enabled Palm, but I have no clue as to whether it can handle IR like the older models did.

Is there a computer adapter available that will allow you to use this with a modern Windows Vista laptop?
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I feel very bad that you folks are having so much difficulty with your $5 keyboard.

Had I noticed that the chart said V3 was the minimum required for a T5, I probably would have thought twice about it. I guess I got lucky. But I caught mention from someone a while back, in a different thread, probably on a different site, that only difference between V2 and V3 was purely cosmetic. I don't know how they determined that and I've since lost track of the thread.

I got a V2 and I believe that's all BGMicro has. This V2 works fine with both my E2 and my TX with the same driver (IRKeybd5.prc) on both.

This KB does not *recieve* anything. When a key is pressed it transmits a string of IR pulses. Probabaly ASCII because that's the most "universal" language and it's very easy to code and makes for a small file size. This is why I'm convinced that if the TX is clicking, the keyboard is sending and the TX is receiving, but something else is preventing the TX from decoding the ASCII and displaying it on screen.

In the upper left corner of the KB there are two disimilar bumps. The one to the left is an alignment pin used when the KB is closed. The one to the right is the on/off switch. Also used ONLY when the KB is closed. The "Lock" is not a switch. If you leave the KB open when not in use, it will ultimately drain the battery. But lithium batteries have a significantly greater life that alkalines - at higher cost.

FileZ reports two parts get installed during Hotsync: IRKeybd5 and IRKeybd5DB. The latter is probably language specific. Is everyone using the automatic setup installer???

I'm just babbling on now because I'm so preplexed.

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