Comments on: Psion Fever – Breaching a digital data island

By: Shane McKee

Shane McKee — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:42:20 +0000

Hi Richard, stumbled across this here in 2026 – amazing post, and a lot of real wisdom there. There’s a burgeoning group forming on Discord – link from the https://psion.community website – both geeking out on old Psion kit and trying to understand the user experience that made these such iconic devices. I’m using my Ericsson MC218 daily in my work as a doctor in Genomics, and loving it. I also have a 3mx and a smattering of other Psion machines, lovingly maintained. They’re such cool devices, but the lesson is that it’s not the modernity of the chips or tech, but the *workflow* that drives the productivity.

By: Chris Cole

Chris Cole — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 11:53:27 +0000

August 2024.

Repeatedly tempted by ancient small solutions for portable writing, despite having a fairly luggable M3Max 14″ MacbookPro.

There are a couple of Psion 3a’s in great condition going locally.

Any reason this won’t work:

Psion 3a Psion Serial adapter/cable (D9) $5 RS-232(D9) to USB cable MacbookPro ???

Assuming the D9 end of the Psion RS-232 unit should be voltage compatible with the USB adapter?

Cheers!
Chris
Australia

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 21:55:42 +0000

I was still able to sync my Psion 5MX and port my tasks into Outlook on a Surface Pro2 Windows 8 platform. Unfortunately my screen cable broke for the 4th time since ownership back in 2000 and I haven’t sent it back for repair yet. However, I still run the Symbian EPOC Emulator on my 64bit Windows 10 ver 2004 Computer, No probs!

By: Linda Rush

Linda Rush — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:08:39 +0000

In reply to Stephen Moore. Hi Richard. My husband both have psion 3c. We would desperately love to retrieve all our date Do you know anyone who could read our Ssd cards? I will await your reply with excitement.

By: Richard Warrender

Richard Warrender — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:25:35 +0000

In reply to Stephen Moore. Hi Stephen, thanks! Yes I've been talking to Alex actually, there is a Slack group you can join if you message him. We were playing around with a prototype SSD card reader. I was very tempted to create a polished Mac product and some hardware for it but not sure the level of interest - it would require quite a bit of effort and time!

By: Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 22:57:31 +0000

Hi Richard, Great post! I’ve a Psion 3a, 3c, 5 and just picked up a German 5 MXPro. The keyboard on the ‘5’s’ is about as good as it gets. Would you divulge more detail? I’ve a Mac G5 that I’d love to connect to either the 3c, or the 5MXPro. I had wondered whether you could do this via an SSD. Alex Brown is trying to do something similar on Hackaday & FaceBook.
I’ve wondered whether the infrared could be replaced with BlueTooth.
Love to hear from you
Steve

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By: Making a Psion Series 3a/c/mx USB power cable - Richard Warrender

Making a Psion Series 3a/c/mx USB power cable - Richard Warrender — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:21:04 +0000

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