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Downlaoded Pippy and plopped it onto my wife's AlphaSmart Dana.  It worked. A wide screen edition may make it better as a programming teaching tool, and to get featuritus, a 2-column version w/ 3rd for output (w/ simple graphics!) would be a nice twist. For a couple more hundred bucks it looks like you could get a Psion Series 7.

I don't know much about Pippy. I'll have to re-read David Mertz's tutorial article and Stephen Figgins' introduction.

Given that the Pippy is lacking in floating point, I wonder if it would serve as a decent text processing trainer?  David Mertz recently got some great Slashdot press for his book Text Processing in Python. 

The first round if installs didn't work. Not sure if I didn't install the associated library, or installed it onto the SD card. If someone is interested in more testing, please let me know.

Final thought. Is Palm the Apple of the Handheld/PDA industry?

I'm still working on figuring out how to share 1 calendar between 2 palms. (My Visor Platinum, Tam's Dana.)  Pointers appreciated.