Rex 6000

The Rex 6000 is a complete PDA the size of a PCMCIA card. It was produced until August 2001 by Xircom.

He is the successor of the Rex 5001 and has (as opposed to its predecessor ) via a touch screen. It is powered by two flat button cells ( 2 x CR2016) with electricity and has a Z80 - compatible processor and 2 MB Flash RAM, which retains the data stored on the device even when the batteries. The monochrome display has 240 × 120 pixels.

To enter data, a keyboard appears, a handwriting recognition feature is not implemented. The standard version has a U.S. keyboard layout, and has a calendar, an address directory, a task list, a notepad, a world clock and a calculator. With the help of the supplied software the Rex 6000 can be synchronized with a PC or laptop. Either you put it directly into a PCMCIA slot or connects it with the included docking station to the PC.

The Japanese company Citizen has had a similar mini- PDA Dataslim2 named in the offer, for a software development kit was available. With its help it was possible to write several additional programs, all of which were provided free of charge, for example, games, a scheduling overview, scientific calculator, a drawing program, a mini -piano and many others. Using a special program, some owners changed the keyboard layout and the built-in character set; There were not only various Central European Rex -6000 versions, but also Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew.

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