Psion

[Lynne]

Is there any chance that my Psion will work with an Apple Mac Mini if I get one? Any ideas?

[Jim Cooke]

I know nothing about Macs but the only thing that works is Mac Connect anyway. If it works with your present Mac, it should work with your new Mac but I have no way of knowing if that's the case. I certainly wouldn't buy the new Mac before knowing if connecting to the Psion is important to you.

[cshandley]

Thats not true. There is the freeware Java Psion Link program, which is designed to work on modern Macs:
http://www.littlespikeyland.com/psionlink/
or
http://website.lineone.net/~john.montgomery/psionlink/

[Lynne]

Oh thanks for that info, I have sent the link to my son who has a mac and also works with Mac's. I presently have a PC but have been having trouble with it, so I was considering getting a Mac. The Psion was the sticking point, so the links you have sent will be very handy. Thanks again.

[Lynne]

BTW my Psion is the Revo 16Mb. -Incase that is relevant.

[Lynne]

Hmmm, looking at it I wonder if it will do what I need. I need to synchronise my agenda and contacts with the computer. I can do it with no problems with my PC, but what about a Mac? It doesn't look to me as if that is what this will do.

[markdeppe]

good links thanks Chris

Lynne, a possible workaround might be to run epoc simulator on Mac and then view the psion files that way

[Lynne]

Thanks for that Mark, my son will try this on his Mac to see what can be acheived before we decide on what computer I should get.

[Colin Messer]

There is aSync that synchronises with iCal - this from Martin at the rather excellent www.psience5.net

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/home/384/

English page of Noriyuki Mihashi's EPOC software. Most notable is aSync -

"This application makes it possible to sync your Psion's Agenda file with iCalendar(.ics) file created by iCal on MacOS or Mozilla Calendar(Sunbird) on various platform."

Colin

[Lynne]

Well, I made my mind up and decided on a Mac rather than a PC. It will be here sometime in the next 2 weeks and I will try my damdest (using all your advice) to make my Revo work with it. Failing that, I will have to resort to plan B and I don't know what that is yet.

Thanks again for your help (any more ideas will be very gratefully recieved).

[cshandley]

I will have to resort to plan B and I don't know what that is yet.
Run a virtual PC on your Mac? (not ideal, but it'd work)