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I have a large quantity of REX 6000 units available (in the hundreds) with docking cradle, protective case and PC cables. I am interested in taking large quantity and small quantity offers. If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Has anyone seen this new sharp handheld? It is a Sharp Wizard in a new form factor (Dimensions: 2.7x4.3x0.5", 3.9 ounces) . I wonder if it can use standard Wizard addins? RadioShack.com has them on sale for $69.99 with a $20.00 rebate. For $50.00, I might have to check one out myself. http://www.sharp-usa.com/files/org_man_oz800.pdf
I want to buy a "like new" standard leather wallet for the Rex 6000. Please send me an email if you have one and how much you want. I can pay you through PayPal, money order or by check. Thanks, Dan Harper
Hello. I recently purchased a few hundred brand new Rex 6000's in bulk from overseas. They are garenteed and come with the case and stylus only. The software can be downloaded for free and the USB Docking cradle can be bought on ebay for 11.00. I'm selling them for 135.00 each. I am a 6000 user myself and know they are almost impossible to find except for on Ebay which they are selling for up to 235.00 each. My email address is teamtuna@mail.com Regards Jeff
Windows XP Code 10: Cannot start device. I finally resolved this issue for myself on Windows XP... The problem is not with the drivers, it is with the resources used by the drivers. After you have successfully reinstalled the old PCMCIA Modem driver for your REX 6000, try setting resources for the driver manually. Click the "Resources" tab in the Properties for the modem under Device Manager. Keep trying different configurations "Basic Configuration 0000", "0001", "0002", etc. until you find one that makes the Code 10 Warning go away. Good luck! Tony
sorry I linked you a wrong one http://www.novatek.fr/novatek_an/
I posted here before and was a rex user... though cant buy one anymore... If you are like me looking for alternatives, you can also check this one out... though I personally dont have it... for now Im still waiting for one good small pda, should be at par or better than rex6... http://www.novatek.fr/novatek_an/fiche.php?PHPSESSID=75ed4c1 7e5d75b2ea2aa93626933a270&pg_code=33303
Thanks for the info. I have a account with Yahoo and use to sync it with turesync as a backup to truesync.com. In Sep I was notified that they are discontinuing service to truesync. After your note I again check and found this: Effective September 15, 2002, TrueSync for Yahoo! will no longer be offered as a download for use with Yahoo! Address Book or Yahoo! Calendar. If you would like information about using TrueSync Plus with another web-based PIM, please email: support@starfish.com for more information. Also, you can still get Intellisync for Yahoo! in the options area of your Yahoo! Calendar or Yahoo! Address Book. Please visit Intellisync for Yahoo! for more information Is there a way to make Yahoo work with a REx that Iam missing. Again Thanks for any help. kl
Hello, I just received that $20 rebate check from Xircom I had asked about a few days ago. You all have happy and safe Holidays!
kal564, you can try my.yahoo.com. Its calendar and address book can sync with REX and outlook. Actually you can download a Truesync Plus from there for free.
I have been using the rex 5001 for yrs alone with the truesync.com calender. The syncing worked great using truesync plus software. I was notified today that the truesync.com calendar is going away later this month. Does anyone know of a online calender that will work with the rex 5000 pda? Yahoo online calender use to but no longer will. Any suggestions. Thanks
Rex 5000 are currently available through Amazon.com for worldwide delivery at http://tinyurl.com/2rjw Rex 6000 are currently available through Amazon.com for worldwide delivery at http://tinyurl.com/2rjt
I got my $20 this morning (Tue. 3 Dec. 2002), heading says: "Xircom, an Intel Company" and "Full and Final Settlement". None of us have heard about anything that would require a settlement, have we? This rebate is something that came out of the blue to all we "Rexers" suprise. But they call it a "Full and Final Settlement". My check is dated 11/11/2002 and is void after 02/09/2003. I wasn't sure if I'd get a check, because I had a 'confusing senario' and thought mine would be processed last, if ever. I originally had a problem with my REX, and it had been replaced. I couldn't remember if I'd synced both of them with the REX site, or only the first one. I sent in the serial number for each and hoped for the best. Glad they figured it out. I only got one check, not 2. But 1 is better than none. Happy REXin everybody! madigan@bellsouth.net
Hello Die-Hard REX fans, I mailed the rebate back in 9/26/02. No word back and worst no money back. Anyone getting any?
Tom: I suspect that you saw my notes in REX6000.org about the Rex 5000 under Windows XP (I am the "Skip" who originally sent this information to Dana). Unfortunately, I haven't seen your problem about "running out of memory". However, (fortunately?) I have had many cases of something-wrong-with-the-data -- especially with using the Rex 5000 with my Jornada 720 PDA -- which finally caused me to move off of the 5000 and on to the REX 6000. You may wish to try putting together a "clean" (built from scratch) set of information -- my guess is that it will transfer to the 5000 without problem. Then comes the real problem of finding the "bad" entry (or entries) which is causing your download to fail. Good luck -- it is a toughie but if you get through it all should be well. - Skip
Further to yesterday's post, I found some excellent instructions on setting up the Rex 5000 in Windows XP at www.rex6000.org/Content/rex-os.htm. This helped me to get the Rex working and TrueSync talking to it. However, my second problem still exists. When I was synchronising Outlook 2000 with TrueSync I got an error message: TruesyncRE-E0001:Rex Pro has run out of memory and can not fit amy more records, or the connection to it has been lost. Although it said 43 records had been added (I had over 2000 previously) there were none in the Rex when I looked. Any suggestions? Maybe if I tried running TrueSync in compatibility mode (this was also suggested in the rex6000 page).
hi Beth, you can find info on how to get rex6000 to work under winNT and win xp environment at Dana's www.rex6000.org
Can anyone help me with getting my REx 5000 Pro to work with Outlook 2000 under Windows XP Pro? It previously worked with Outlook 2000 under Win 98 SE but when I upgraded (no choice in the matter) I encountered two problems: 1. Windows did not see the Rex in the PC Card slot. I downloaded the Win 2000 fix and the Rex is now recognised. 2. However, when I start Truesync it keeps telling me the available memory in the Rex is low and may not fit all the information (it all fitted previously). There is an "ignore" button on the warning window but it is greyed out so the only choice is to cancel the synchronisation. It's very frustrating. Tom
Hi everyone: I just bought a new REX 6000 off of e-bay, and delivered via UPS 2nd day delivery, I paid a total of $170(still wrapped in the manufacturer's shrink wrap). I don't have it yet, but I can't wait to get my hands on the little guy.... Has anyone used a REX in a Windows NT environment? Does it synch well? I have Windows XP at home, but Windows NT at work. Something tells me I'm in for some surprises! Thanks. Beth
USD700!! For that price I can buy a iPaq with 400M CPU, 128M RAM, built-in bluetooth and transflective bright screen. :)
An interesting creditcard-size PDA running Linux at: http://www.invair.de/english.html Although it's claimed to be creditcard-sized, its almost 2 cm thick... Still it runs at 133mhz and has 32MB of RAM. The price is slightly higher than for a Rex: roughly USD 700 IIRC. The device has got a USB connector, which might make it possible to connect a keyboard or other USB devices that have Linux support.
hi Dana, trying to send an email to you, but it seems that your mailbox is full.
You can find the sync software at this site: http://www.rex6000.org/ John
Hello, I lost the cd-software that contains the truesync desktop agenda, and want to reinstall in my system, is there any chance to download it??? anybody can help me?
B(2), Otavio, I would buy one too... Let's hope that this time Citizen will market it by itself to US. Franco
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You are right, Otavio. It is a little thicker, though the length and width are the same if memory serves me correctly. I think I would buy one, if they were available in the US market and had an english language OS and apps. B(2)
Yeah Joe, but the fact is... It is not the form factor, PC CARD, as REX, so it's BIGGER!
I went with my motorbike, September and October, touring Spain and Portugal. The third day I dropped my Rex, tripped, stomped on it, goodbye Rex. Now I'm back (by the way, Dana, I found the plastic case that you imported for us from Japan, thanks), I got myself an other Rex, come here to check all the wonderful news for the last 3 months, and nobody is here, there are almost no news. Zero. Zilch. Nada. ...and I was so happy to be back in the Rex community, that in the past was so alive and wonderful and full of zest... Looks like Chicken Little has been visiting Rex Rumor Central. Franco
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You can see the rex replacement here, including specs. http://www.citizen.co.jp/english/release/02/02pda/02pda.htm Joe
Good question Antmelnat. When Alan Henrik said he was going to take the forum down soon (in the next few days) on October 3 - I think we all just stopped posting here, expecting the end to come at any moment. I guess whatever action remains is at The Rex Zone or on the e-mail lists. I occasionally check both to see if the REX 7 has been released. ;^) About seven weeks later, RRC is still up and running, though few of us post here anymore. And B(2) is beginning to wonder if it was all a little joke on someone's part. Has anyone contact the sysop by other means and confirmed this "ultimate rumor" was true? And, am I the only one who noticed the recent posts from "PH"? Remember "Ph" and his impersonations? Hmmmmmm. Was the 10/3 post yet another cruel attempt to thwart the RRC crowd, or a legitimate message from the real sysop? I guess it might be worth checking the IP hash in the source, but I don't have the energy to go back and check it against his IP hash back when he first instituted that feature. I think it might have been spring of 2001. (The logging of the IP hash in the source was intended to thwart the impersonation antics of "Ph" as I recall.) We are truly an apathetic bunch these days. We all have our little stashes of REX cards and we wait for the day a new release of Outlook or Windows breaks the synch software - knowing that will be the end of the REX. Maybe I'll go over to Linux at that point and start synching that way. Might be worth it. B(2)
Just testing to see if RRC is still working. No posts for some time...where is everyone?
You're both wrong! Stother Martin, playing the role of Boss Shorty in Cool Hand Luke, had the famous line, "What we have here, is a failure to communicate."
A better picture of the next generation REX, the Wireless DataSync Card from Citizen. Good shot of modle holding the device...Why can't we get this thing already? http://it.zaobao.com/pages3/it081101d.html
Not as small as the LPMS from Myster's post but looks very promising for a Pocket PC device. http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/2589,3.html
Check this out .... http://www.luciditytek.com/ It looks like Novatek http://www.novatek.fr/novatek_an/ is an OEM made by them and they have a colour version with really amazing specs (mp3 player,CF expansion card, handwright Rec etc)!!!! If you check also the OS manufacturer http://www.penbex.com/ they have already a lot of addins and an SDK for developers I couldn't find a price for the top model but the cheapest model( Novatek is 99 Euros) is dirt cheap ....
Meert, Thank you for your response. I was able to find to find the original email in one of my backups. So, I finally filled in the form, and sent it off.
Dan Gulley: I have copyed ALL the content of this site, just in case Alan Henrik shuts it down. http://www.cybermais.com/rex/ The forum only starts when this one closes!
Sinan, I got an email from Gus Bojorquez Gus.Bojorquez@cpginc.com but it said specifically not to reply to that email. The address they send me was: Dept. # 35015 REX Rebate Program P.O. Box 52900 Phoenix, AZ 85072-2900
REX.net rebate: I seem to have deleted the email with my claim number. Does anyone know who to contact to find out that number or get a new claim number? Thanks. Sinan.
Alan, I made a request to the Internet Archive to save this site one more time before you close it for good. You probably know of them, but their address is http://www.archive.org/ and they have a mission of archiving as much of the internet as possible for historical purposes. I go to their site when I can no longer find a site and about 50% of the time I can find the page I'm looking for archived there. Please keep the REX site open at least until they have archived it (if they will do it). I, of course, have no inside control over them. But, maybe if enough of us ask them, they will make a special effort to archive it one last time before you close it. The last time they archived it was 10-30-2001. I found your REX site about 6 months ago when I bought a REX 6000. I have since become dependant on the little buggar and have lurked at this site several times a month (sometimes a week) since then. I even bought a second REX as insurance against having to be without one in the near future. Thanks for the upkeep of the site and the very best wishes to you for the future. Dan Gulley Cleveland Hts., Ohio
Alan: http://www.rex6000.org/Content/rex-updates.htm ...If you use the BIN file here to reload the firmware to your 1 MB REX, the memory display will then read 2 MB. This doesn't mean that your REX now has more memory, just that the firmware update changes the memory display to 2 MB. To determine the amount of memory on your REX, tap "Controls" and then tap "Memory." See here in our REX FAQ for more information. We have not heard of any problems related to running the firmware file here on a 1 MB REX.
I recently found and purchased a Rex 6000 unit in Asia. To my surprise the unit indicated that it only had 1 MB Flash Memory. However, after flashing firmware it now reported 2MB memory. Does anyone know how to test how much MB does this unit really have? Thanks.
i also received the same email as Meert. i wonder if the part on "invalid Product ID" has got anything to do with the fact that i exchanged my Rex twice becoz of faulty unit. may have loggin first time using the returned unit and gave them the id code of my present rex.
Well, seems they are still busy with the Rex Resubmission. Apparantley they weren't able to read my crappy handwriting :( Going for a second try. -----This is your Resubmit Form ---- ----PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND VIA EMAIL. PRINT AND MAIL TO ADDRESS PRINTED BELOW--- Thank you for participating in this promotion. Unfortunately we could not honor your request because of the following reason: We did not receive a valid Product ID and/or Claim Number with your request. To resubmit your claim, please fill out all the information requested below, and mail to the address provided below
COOL SITE: Rex 6000 PDA USB docking station support in Linux http://www.bakketun.net/rex/
the rex6000 in mass quantitys can be found for $45 each on 10 units on ebay even. 2,000 units should sell for much less each in one lot!
If it may concern to someone, I can take 15 units @ 60US$ plus shipping
Mike: See the REX FAQ on my site - there's a link there to Tice's site (in the REX 3/Pro/5/5000 Series Update paragraph), where you can find the TS Plus for Yahoo software. Dana http://www.rex6000.org/
Does anyone know where I can download the free version of truesync plus from yahoo? They removed the download from Yahoo but I was hoping someone still had the exe... If someone has it and would email me the file I would be very greatful! Thanks!
Another proposal from Mr. House. I don't think he'll consider breaking it up into smaller packages, such as 100. Hi Greg, I have a proposal that may help. Rather than taking all 2000 units at once, take 1000 units at USD 60/unit and I will hold the other 1000 units for one month at USD46/unit. That represents a USD1.00/unit increase in price but up front you only require USD60,000 rather than USD104,000. Let me know what you think. Wayne House Contact me at greg_searle at hotmail dot com with any leads.
Greg provided me the details that he ferreted out- they are in the News on my site. Nice work, Greg. Wayne also contacted me about this, he does seem intent on getting the word out.... A new game developer library has also been released, details also in the News. Dana http://www.rex6000.org/
Greg: Can you ask how it would cost to buy, lets say 100? I think if the price is good we can make as DS2 cases!
I've been contacted by a business that purchases discontinued items and sells them to retailers. He has 2,000 REX 6000 units and wants to sell the whole lot. Unfortunately, he is not set up to sell individual units. If anybody knows of a retailer who may be interested, please send me an e-mail.
Mitch G: Meert has some screenshots of Rexcade highscores on his site (one above 5000): http://meert.kicks-ass.net/rex/high.html Highscores of the ecompatible (to my best knowledge) Cascade game are here (they are 7000+): http://www.revoworld.com/dbShownews.asp?ID=332 BTW: The screenshots made with Rexcade contain a secret 'watermark' that indicates if the score is real or has been tampered with! :-)
Has any one else gotten over 5,000 points on rexcade?
Great Greg! I sure could use one more backup! TubaLips
I just got a lead from Wayne House on an impressive source for REX 6000s. It sounds too good to be true, so I'm checking it out. Hopefully it's legit. I'll definitely let everybody know how it turns out, either way...
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I have really enjoyed the "Lines" game. However, I have only been able to score a max of 96. Would someone please suggest some "strategy" for the game? Thanks! TubaLips
Anyone already hear anything about the Rex Rebate offer?
GPF: Game goal is to arrange balls of the same color in a straight lines (every direction). 5 or more balls on a straight line are removed and points are given. Longer lines give more points to you. Crossing lines count together. Hope that helps. DK
The Lines games looks quite interesting, but I have no clue how to play it :(. Can someone write a quick readme doc? Thanks!
Thanks for the RexLines add-in. It's another time and battaries killing game. My highest score is 229. DK
Jerry, Otavio, please note that there is a new version 0.6 of the encrypt addin. Just a bugfix. The server was down when you tried it, Jerry. Gerd
New addin released! By Sergey Khachatryan LinesRex http://www.stochastica.org/members/SKhachatryan.html
REX RUMOR CENTRAL Replacement Site: http://www.cybermais.com/rex/index.html WHEN and IF Alan Henrik shuts RRC down!
Alan, Much thanks for hosting this site over the years. An end of an era... hopefully not an end for the REX! REX ON! antmelnat
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jerry: try again, it is working for me, here is the direct link: (unwrap it first!) http://xtide.ldeo.columbia.edu/~krahmann/rex/encrypt05b.zip
Does anyone know where I can download the "encrypt" addin? I've tried this site here (http://xtide.ldeo.columbia.edu/~k rahmann/rex/rex.html) but it seems to be dead. Anyone out there that has a copy of this addin that could email me I sure would appreciate it. Thanks......
I've found a lot of useful information here over the years. I currently own 4 Rex-3's that I bought on eBay so that I can use Rex for years until finally they all die. Thanks so much for the web site. Good luck in your future endeavors, whatever they may be...
Alan, Thanks for this site. I found it to be valuable, and your efforts have been greatly appreciated. Paul
Can anybody tell me how to get data from a Franklin Rolodex RF-192 Organizer into Palm Pilot format? Thanks for any hints on this matter!
Junior: Try www.starfish.com and www.truesync.com and www.mot.com for starters. I looked on starfish.com and did not see the v70 phone specifically listed, but if Motorola says it is supported and provides connectivity, then surely Starfish (a subsidiary of Motorola) will support you. Every Motorola phone has a toll free telephone number on it under the battery or in the documentation and you can easily reach a real person at that number who will go to the ends of the earth to assist you. At least that has been my experience. Give them a call. Best of luck, B(2)
It's getting harder and harder to find a REX 6000 for sale these days. I just replaced the eBay logo on my page with a few links for REX 6000 sources. These sites list vendors who probably still have them in stock. As I find more of these lists, I will add more links. Avoid Amazon.com for now, as the vendors there are taking advantage of the shortage in supply.
Hi Alan, thank you very much for providing this forum to the Rex community. Since I discovered it I highly appreciated this source of information. If it wasn't for this forum I would have trashed my Rex shortly after I bought it. As far as I know it's the only forum of this quality around. At least there is nothing as informative, educative and (sometimes) entertaining in my main language (german). Alan, you surely have written a small part of computer history - at least for me. bye Tom
I've recently bought a motorola v70e mobile. I have been trying for the last few days without sucess to get it to work with the turesync software. I can't seem to find the right drivers to make it compatable. Is there anyone out there who can help. Cheers
Thanks, Alan. This site entertained and educated me.
Thank you for a great forum. I have no doubt the R6K would have died a lot sooner had it not been for RRC. Good luck in your future endeavors! As to you other posters...See you over on RexZone! TubaLips
Thanks for all your hard work and expense. This was my favorite forum. The unthreaded format provided insight into so many solutions. Even to problems I had no idea would develop. Wish you best in your future endeavors.
So sad to see this forum go.. Thanks Alan.
Alan, thanks
Alan: Thank you very much for your time and effort maintaining this site! It was one of the most informative sites about the REX6000! The unthreaded feeling is great! And the very simple "contribute"-option is terrific! Thanks again, PH
hi Alan thank you very much for your generosity. you've been a great help to the Rex community. ym
Alan: Thank You Very Much! This site has been the soul of REX comunity [by the way I just copyed ALL the archives of RRC in case of someone needs it in the futere ;)]
Mike: P.S. Follow the instructions on removing old drivers and installin new ones very carefully!
Mike: Yes, you have to install the drivers for it, (use the new ones) Driver [REX6000_101.EXE] (7836KB) (unwrap the following link first) http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?P roductID=647&DwnldID=3201 After that you shoud see in your Device Manager > Ports (COM & LPT)> something like this: (COM4)USB Serial Port 0080A1351BB-S1 And at Device Manager > Universal Serial Bus controllers > (That must be enabled on BIOS) something like this: Xircom USB Rex Cradle 0080A1351BB Good Luck!
Hello, I have a Rex 6000 that I have been using for a few months with the serial cradle. I just purchased a USB cradle and cannot get Intellisync to recognize this cradle on my system (running Win98). Is there something I have to do so that the system will see the Rex in the USB instead of the serial cradle? Thanks, Mike mrdowns@comcast.net
Hideo Morotomi released Biorhythm Calculator Add-in for REX VERSION 2 on September 27, 2002. It can be downloaded from the author's download site: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qn6o-mrtm/ds2new/addin/download_ e.htm The site is in English and the online manual is in English. Version 2 of the Biorhythm add-in reads birthday data from the memo. DK
Alan, Yeah, that's life: something appears, develops, matures and then ends. Thank you very much for this site! It's really been the center of the Rex community for all the time of Rex existence! I really appreciate your efforts and I guess everybody can only thank you very much! Georgy
Alan, I also very much thank you for this wonderful tool. While I didn't know about it when I had my Rex3, I found it shortly before buying the R6K and owning both rex's would not have been the same without this. I agree with B(2) I always liked the unthreaded style and always checked this site first daily. I hope the info lives on in someone else's archives.... Eric
Alan, Thankyou for sticking it out as long as you could. This has been a great resource and format. John
Alan; I was already having kind of a bad day and your announcement about taking RRC off the air made it a lot worse! I intend that only as a great compliment, and not with any bitterness or purpose of asking you to change your mind. I have absolutely loved this forum; it is the break I take when I'm swamped with work and the reward I give myself when I've finished a task. But, I know how it is to have way too much to do, and I'm sure this has taken a lot of your time. Good for you for recognizing that in life some things have to go, and making the tough decision. REX will live on, in large part because of the energy you've given it. Thanks so much for all you've done and best wishes for success in your other endeavors. Jim
Thanks so much for Rex RC!!! It has been extremely valuable to me!!! Chuck
Alan, many many thanks. Franco
Alan- Thanks so much. Double-Ditto the previous comments & suggestions. In curiosity, since you haven't had a REX in a while, what sort of PDA do you use? Thanks again. All we REXers owe you a debt of gratitude. madigan@bellsouth.net
Alan: Thanks for all your time and effort maintaining this forum. While we all owe a debt of gratitude to those who've already developed alternative forums including the very useful Rex Zone, nothing will ever have the elegant simplicity and unique personality of this forum. It has truly been one of my absolute favorites on the Net in the last five or so years and it is one of a kind. I believe the unthreaded format always drove the open discussion here and that led to the current cult-like devotion of so many of us to the REX. REX Rumor Central MADE the REX work as a niche device when Citizen, Franklin, Starfish, Xircom and Intel could not make the product work as a viable PDA. I certainly should have realized that you had expenses and effort associated with running the site, but it really never occurred to me. I guess I was vaguely aware the domain registration renewals had to be paid and the periodic archiving of the contents of this page must have been taken some time, but the scope of the work involved never occurred to me. It would also be my hope that the RRC archives can also be permanently hosted somewhere like www.rex6000.org, that Dana's idea of a pointer or link from here to another replacement forum can be realized and kept in place, and (really dreaming) my fondest hope would be that the unthreaded look and feel of this forum could be recreated somewhere else. Thanks again for your fine contribution to the REX community. I'm not the only one who is going to really miss this place. Best wishes, B(2)
Alan: Thanks for keeping RRC in the air for such a long time. I think Dana's suggestion to move discussions to the Rex Zone msgboard is Ok. If I remember correctly there is a RRC archive at the rex.mamy.to website, but it's always good to have a (downloadable) copy at e.g. www.rex6000.org. regards, Bertus
Alan: First - thanks. I was so pleased when I found this board after I got my first REX 3 when they were released. Saved me from a bunch of trouble over the years and several REX models. Second - there's a lot of info on this site in the archived pages. It would be great to keep that info available to the REX community. Are you willing to pass the RRC archives on so that we can keep them online? Third - thanks. :-) Fourth - The REX Zone at: http://www.michiganwideweb.com/cgi-local/ib3/ikonboard.cgi is a good alternative to if/when RRC shuts down. If it goes that way it would be useful to have a redirect or pointer to that site. I don't think any of us have ever made any money off the REX (neiter us hobbyists or Franklin/Xircom/Intel). Thanks for sticking it out as long as you have. Dana http://www.rex6000.org/
Just to let everyone know, I've decided to shut the REX Page down in the next few days. REX Rumor Central has been a great discussion forum for an interesting product, and the best part about it has been the dedicated contributions of the users. You have taken a simple, unsophisticated web page and made it valuable by the quality of your contributions. However, the web site has never paid for itself, and it has been a long time since I personally had a working REX. And obviously several parts of the site are severely out of date. Even if I did have a REX, this site would still be an expensive hobby, and would take a lot of maintenance time to keep up to date. One option is to just shut down the site immediately, but I figured it would be nice to offer you all a chance to talk amongst yourselves for a few days first. I'm not looking to extend the life of the site, but am basically looking to avoid sinking more money or time into it. If anyone wants to buy the entire site and help me recoup some of my past expenses, that would be great, but it's probably too much to hope for, and it's not my goal. My goal is just to remove it from my task list, with a gentle transition to something else. Rather than participate in a vigorous discussion on this, I'm likely to just check in after a couple days or so and read what people have written. I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just pretty busy with other things right now, but I do need to simplify my life which includes getting the REX Pages off my plate. Hope you will all understand this. Please note one important point: I am not looking for free hosting, or cheaper hosting. If that was the goal, I already have it elsewhere (my own home broadband connection; I could host at no additional cost). I'm just looking to simplify. I know some of you have appreciated this forum a lot, and the expressions of appreciation have helped keep it alive -- but that's not what I'm looking for now. What would be great to see would be a migration of users from this site to another forum site, hopefully one as open and free and as high quality as you users have made this one to be, so you people aren't left in the lurch. Good luck! Alan
Jack: I think you'll need to use REX Tools to initialize the REX - that will clear all data off it. I think Otavio's suggestion will remove only your user info. Dana
Jack Mangan: Rex Tools >> Set User Information >> Delete All Fields!
Does anyone know how to erase all data in a REX 6000? I sold mine on eBay; however, I can't figure out how to erase my personal info. Thanks!
I'm sorry, I forgot the link: http://www.novatek.fr/novatek/fiche.php?PHPSESSID=5468d03e3d 3a868e8d4f5dec8dbba58b&pg_code=30648
Hi all! Some time ago I read on the REX Zone forum about a possible "successor" to REX6000 - NovaTek LS-506. The information on the forum was probably a computer translation of the french text and therefore was hard to understand. Here is the translation: (found on the page a button to switch to English.... ;-)) "The smallest PDA in the world Technical Specifications : - As small as a credit card - CPU : Motorola Dragonball 68EZ328 - 16bits - RAM : 8 Mo EDO RAM - ROM : 4Mo Flash ROM - LCD resolution : 160 x 160 - LCD color : Gray Level, backlight - LCD type : FSTN - LCD size : 45 x 58 mm - Input bottoms : 2 Key (Power, Esc), Jog Key (Forward, Fast forward, enter, Bakward, Fast Backward) - Full Screen Handwritting Recognition, S/W Keyboard - User interface : Graphical user interface operating system. Pen touch/acess easy navigation, Easy One Dial switch phonetic, hand Writting recognition, Standard QWERT Visual Keyboard, Symbol & Numerical Keyboard - Infrared IrDA 1.3 - Weight with battery : 82 g - Size : 90 x 62 x 11 mm - Operating Temperature : 0 to 40°C - Power Lithium rechargeable - Communication : Infrared Baud Rate : 115K, UART (RS232) - Support TCP/IP protocol - OS : Penbex Inside the Box : - PDA - Operation manual - Software CD-Rom - PC sync cable - Spare stylus - Adaptor - Carrying bag 2 years warranty - high quality, great design - Mini price ! " Regards to all, BIG thanks to all developers !!!
Hello all, I was hoping that any of you experienced users might be able to help me with a problem. I'm having difficulty getting outlook XP to act as the PIM for my REX 6000. I'm using the PCMCIA connection. Install works fine, but when it comes to selecting MS Outlook as the Translator when configuring in v.1.0, I am unable to map the outlook file it says the "database file is missing or set to zero" and the default area is grayed out, yet when trying to locate the file (by browsing) no files show up to map. In v.1.01, when I select Outlook as the translator, I immediately get an "error report" message. I've researched quite a bit and have not seen a solution to this, and I've read that Outlook XP works with PCMCIA. I know I must be missing something simple, because I initially got synching on my old computer (when I first got the REX) using Outlook XP. [First time using it on the new computer and this is the problem I'm having]. Thanks in advance for your help.
Ammar - It would take a lot of patience, care, a tiny soldering iron, a solder wick, and a heat sink. With so many connections, it would be easy to overheat many of the components on the board. The solder connections look simple -- there are just a lot of them.
Ammar: You'd better see it first! http://www.hyperip.com/Rex6000/
Ariel: Not sure which REX you have but you can try here: http://support.intel.com/support/peripherals/xc/pda/
I have a used Rex 6K that I am willing to sell for $70 firm. It has a Serial cradle and 45 new Panasonic batteries. E-mail me if interested at Scowllie@worldnet.att.net. I can send pictures if interested.
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