Hardware

CPU StrongARM SA-1100
RAM 16MB

Software

If you’re looking for a catalogue of Psion software, try the Psion Software Index. You can also find many programs on the Internet Archive.

Essentials

Folks often ask what software they should start with. Here’s my list of must-haves:

  • Symbian Text Editor—a clean fully-featured text editor
  • nSwitcher—a lightweight dock/NextStep-style task switcher
  • nOPL+—an essential if you want to really take advantage of the Psion’s support for writing OPL programs on the go
  • Thoughts—a bit of a cheeky one, this is my own journaling helper
  • Draw5—a vector-based drawing program with support for embedding in other documents
  • PDF+—while support is limited for modern documents it’s useful to be able to read PDFs on the go
  • Vexed—a great puzzle game with support for full color graphics that showcases the Series 7 well

Highlights and Reviews

Outside of the essentials, I wanted to showcase a few highlights and provide extra notes on software that requires more involved installation steps. Ultimately, I’d like to roll this into the Psion Software Index (see above), but that’ll take time.

Synchronization

I use Reconnect—my own modern solution for macOS—to connect Psions to my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro.

Previously, I’ve had good luck using PsiWin 2.3 in a Windows XP VM using UTM1. plptools also works well on Linux.

Screenshots

Community

There’s a friendly and thriving community over on the Psion Discord, details of which can be found at psion.info.

Replacement Parts

Publications

Reference

  1. Windows XP UTM Template ↩