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Magic Cap Resources

This is a collection of resources for the Magic Cap device owner. Magic Cap was the operating system used in several handheld computers including the Sony Magic Link, Motorola Envoy, and General Magic’s own DataRover 840.

Magic Cap

Magic Cap Device Gallery

This page lists many of the Magic Cap devices which existed at some time or another, including both production machines and prototypes. Sony HIX-300 Sony's first Magic Cap device, never released to …

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Magic Cap

Before General Magic There Was Paradigm

General Magic was the company that created the Magic Cap operating system and hand-held devices including the Sony Magic Link and Motorola Envoy. Many concepts from Magic Cap went on to new lives in …

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Magic Cap

FAQs & HOWTOs

Frequently asked questions and how-to articles for Magic Cap device owners.

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Magic Cap

Rosemary Software Archive

This is an archive of stuff pulled from kelp.icras.com before it went down. Currently it's (almost) exactly as it existed on kelp, no better, no worse. An invaluable resource for new DataRover owners. …

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Magic Cap

Magic Cap Developer Documentation

These are documents from the Magic Cap SDK which may be of interest to the community, particularly those into software development and usability. Warning to developers digging for ideas: some topics …

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Magic Cap

CujoChat: IRC for Magic Cap!

CujoChat is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Magic Cap communicators. IRC is a multi-user, real-time conferencing/chat system running on the Internet. Users talk on topic-oriented channels, …

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Magic Cap

MagicHTTP: The Portable Web Server

As I was digging through some backup CDs I stumbled onto this little gem from my General Magic days. MagicHTTP was a web server I built in early 1996 that ran on Magic Cap personal communicators. Not …

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