After the Organiser II escapades of day 1, I’d been hoping for a slower day, and the LZ64 lucky dip delivered, with the first two entries being, ‘Learn about the Organiser Comm Link’, and ‘Add manuals to psion.community’. Exactly the kind of chill tasks I was looking for.

Manuals

Since the Comms Link is a chunky device (especially when paired with the necessary cables and adapters to plug it into a modern computer), I didn’t have it with me over my morning coffee. I therefore opted to start the day by focusing on adding manuals to the Psion Community website.

The goal is to make it easier for folks to find documentation on all eras of Psion computers, akin to Jaap’s Organiser II pages. It’s mostly an exercise in cataloguing what we already have, uploading things to archive.org if they don’t exist, and adding links to the website¹. Alex very kindly shared his collection with me and, combining it with mine, I started working my way through.

Progress was a little slow as I had to make a couple of tweaks to the website itself, but I was able to add links to about 11 manuals across 7 Psion models, uploading 3 that didn’t appear to exist on archive.org. Now that I’ve established a pattern, it should be much easier to add more entries over time—I’ve very intentionally opted for a simple list layout in the hope that this will make it more welcoming and encourage others to propose updates to the page.

Comms Link

While the day proved unexpectedly busy (I found myself judging a local latte art competition), I still managed to find a few moments to poke at the Comms Link.

Just like the 3 Link for the Series 3 and Series 3a, the Comms Link has a built-in ROM which includes all the necessary software for the Organiser. The software uses all 4 lines of the display, telling me that I was lucky enough to pick up a later model with explicit support for the LZ64. While I didn’t get a chance to go further, those menu entries suggest there’s support for manually sending and receiving individual files, and I understand these later versions also have nascent support for the Psion Link Protocol. Something for day 3.