I thought the unit had 128 MB of storage, not 64. As for applications, you can always try some audio games. For instance, here's a link for Audio Archery that should work with Windows Mobile.
https://agarchive.net/games/lworks/arch … t%20pc.cab
Here's Chopper Challenge.
https://agarchive.net/games/XSight/chop … mobile.cab

I wouldn't recommend connecting it to the Internet. It's using an ancient version of Internet Explorer that probably doesn't work well with modern websites. There may be a ton of malware out there now, so it's not worth it IMHO.

Amd as for internet, I wouldn't be browsing with it because the version of IE that it has... Meh. The only reason is for internet capable apps like GS player, and what not. and I thought I remembered finding a zip archive with all the games for the pac mate like Eamon, Drug Wars, Chopper Challenge, Etc...

Could you do a Pacmate recording sometime demonstrating the old features and some of those games like Audio Archery? I'd be really interested to hear that.

Some of these prices on eBay are laughable. $1,500? Yikes.
I'd be interested to hear your experiences with this unit. I'm all for preserving old tech.

I will be doing an audio review of my experiences with the pac mate as soon as I can get a power cord. I guess getting compact flash cards isn't quite necessary for getting it up and running. I'll describe what condition it was in when I got it, demo some software, etc, and speaking of software, Datajake, could you help a bruhtha out and gimme some stuff to use?

I'll be searching for a Charger tomorrow. I'll be Amazed if I can actually Find one, and even more so if the thing still manages to hold a charge. And I don't know if you would be allowed to do this, but it would be cool to be able to get my hands on  the braille soft games for the PacMate.WhenI tried to get to the web site I got sent To some survey that Was not unlike a Census  form, With website nowhere to be found except for questions about my income, household, political views, the corona virus, etc. With no obvious indication that the site still functioned.

The ElBraille is probably the best modern device we have today. Still, I know what you mean. I never used a PacMate, but it does seem to be the coolest device of legacy note takers.

Does anyone know what the specs of the previous PacMate models are? I think the newest one has 128 MB of user storage, 64 MB Ram, and a 400 MHz ARM CPU. Those are laughable specs today, and maybe even back in 2007. Still, if what I heard about the unit is correct, it managed to do the most with Windows Mobile than any of these other devices. Can the PacMate still be used to authorize JAWS for Windows?

I haven't even used the pac mate yet, and I'm already seeing a very similar approach to the note taker in what they did comparing to HumanWare. The PacMate didn't modify the windows CE experience so heavily unlike the other windows CE note takers of the time. They perfectly managed to make a ballenced hybrid of blind friendly note taker and main stream, something that anyone would know about if you mentioned the Today  screen, for example. HumanWare did this about 10 years later with the touch. Although you can't buy a touch with out a braille display, I feel that HumanWare might have taken a few ideas out of Freedom Scientific's book. The fact that when the omni came out, they offered the possibility of sending in your PacMate BX or QX, not the first gen, I forgot what they called it, but the point is, you could send in your BX or QX and they would turn it into an omni. Sense the omni used the same body as the previous generation they would replace the internals and send it back. Doesn't that sound familiar? Also, again, the idea of not modifying the experience of the OS too much beond original was done with the touch, not necessarily with the home screen, but all the apps minus HumanWare's apps are straight up stock android. The HumanWare apps also had user interfaces that didn't feel out of place on android, unlike the polaris where even though the apps under the hood are completely different, if you had a win CE model before the polaris, you wouldn't notice any differences in the default hims apps because they made them function exactly the same. So, I find it funny that 15 years ago, the philosophy of the PacMate is finally being taken  up by the companies that thought the PacMate was too complicated, and said that it wouldn't work. When I make my audio review, I will talk more about this, and even include snippets of a certain FS cast episode where Jonathan Mosen was talking about the at the time, not released omni, because some of the points he made about the PacMate philosophy still stand true today. Example, he was talking about why their unmodified, fully open windows mobile experience was better than the other note takers, and he said something to the effect of When you buy a note taker most people buy it to meet their needs that they have at the moment, school, work, etc.  As you live, your needs might change, and if your nlote taker doesn't change with you, it quickly becomes obselete. I fully agree, and there's plenty of proof. Let's compare the BrailleNote apex, and the BrailleSense on hand, plus, and later on, the u2. The apex was basically the same as the mPower, accept with more storage, more ram, a newer version of the OS that they never took advantage of, and a better processor, more up to date IO and a new form factor. Software wise, it was the exact same as the mPower. The BrailleSense did things that HumanWare claimed to be impossible, like YouTube, Imap support, shuffling playlists, recording in daisy, a better file explorer that had more clear support for  hierarchical directories, FaceBook, Twitter, need I continue? Even though they were both technically closed off heavily modified systems, the BrailleSense was far more capable. As for the specs of the PacMates, the 400 series had windows mobile 2003, 32 megs of ram, 64 megs of flash that was reserved for the system files and other things, but you couldn't store anything on it, it also had an intel xScale arm processor clocked at 500 or 520 mhz, I forget. The omni uses the same body as the 400 series, but updated with a 128 mb flash disc so data wasn't stored in ram anymore, if you ask me, they should've done that from the beginning, the mPower was the exact same specs, accept with a lower clock speed, I think like, 480 mhz. I mean, why would you store everything in ram? That's just asking for trouble. This explains why on both the first gen and the 400 series the device would shut off at 12 percent, to provide you with enough standby time to find an outlet. The omni was also upgraded to windows CE 6.0, and funny enough, it was the first note taker to jump to 6.0.. It was released in february of 2007, and the fs cast episode about the omni came out  in july. The apex wasn't released until 2009, and the BrailleSense u2 wasn't released until 2012 I think.

how do you add plugins and what not? I assume that's how the BrailleSense got youtube.

Wow... Just wow.

Neat you got it working. Would love to hear any kind of recordings you make interacting with/using it.