On Feb 13, 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/11/2020 10:09 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I wish to enter/store data while away from home. The data will then be >> transferred to my laptop via a USB cable. [Think the capability of one >> of the old Palm Pilots in a smartphone(sic) form factor] >> > > > "Palm Pilot" was the not best visualization. > A better image would be the pocket protector full of 3x5 cards a fellow > engineering student used in the early 60's. He had it organized for quick > retrieval of notes on a specific topic. > [...] > > What I could envision using would be Debian with a minimal MATE > Desktop and a single custom Tcl/Tk app. The bottom of the screen would > have a 4x15 character array emulating a QWERTY keyboard for input of > arbitrary alphanumeric data. Display of "retrieved data" or "data > being entered" would be handled by the Tcl/Tk app.
I am probably way off the mark (and I apologize if I missed a "no" answer to this) - but what about something like the "SDA" project[1]? It's not Debian (or Linux at all), but it seems to tick the boxes you were looking for between the original post and this clarification. It's also apparently a hobby project -- but then again, wasn't Linux a hobby project in the early 1990s? [1]https://hackaday.io/project/35165-sda-the-best-new-pda -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
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