Hello! Weather is promising to be as bad as it was for Day Three of the VCF East this year, but I'll be there, at Festivus at InfoAge I mean. And the reason why I chose thread to announce is that I'm bringing three members of my collection. This is a Palm 3X appropriately loaded, and with no accessories, a Palm 3X wearing an accessory, a Kodak Palmpix device. And a Palm 5x also fully loaded. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 1:30 PM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
According to Wikipedia, The Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000 were the first generations of PDAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant> produced by Palm Computing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA)> (then a subsidiary of U.S. Robotics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Robotics>). It was introduced in March 1996.
Is anyone still into them? Are there any surviving archives or repositories?
I reluctantly retired my Palm PDA as my electronic calendar because my Android phone's Google calendar is always with me and auto-syncs to other devices :-/ But I have heaps of accessories worthy of keeping them running for other uses.
I remember when the trains were full of business people "beaming" each other contact info and notes using the Palm Pilot, Casio BOSS or Sharp Wizard. Now it's just a cellphone app :-/
Citing Sharp Wizard - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Wizard> The *Sharp Wizard* is a series of electronic organizers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_organizer> released by Sharp Corporation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Corporation>. The first model was the *OZ-7000* released in 1989, making it one of the first electronic organizers to be sold.
Citing Throwback Thursday: The "personal organizer" we had before the Newton : Apple World Today <https://www.appleworld.today/2015/05/28/throwback-thursday-the-personal-organizer-we-had-before-the-newton/>
Back before the Newton MessagePad made a splash in 1993 as the first “Personal Digital Assistant”, several consumer electronics companies were making handheld devices designed to do all of the things that we take for granted now on our iPhones and Apple Watches — take short notes, check our calendar, make appointments, and look up phone numbers. One of these devices was the Casio B.O.S.S. SF-8000 ... B.O.S.S. stood for “Business Organizer Scheduling System.” This device came out in 1990
And there's the first smartphone:
IBM Simon - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon>
IBM debuted a prototype <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype> device, code named "Sweetspot" in November 1992 at COMDEX <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMDEX>
Telxon made handheld barcode scanners that were essentially PDAs, as early as 1983 but I cannot find any references. Does anyone have any pointers?
-- jeff jonas
And after the Doctor assisted Williams and Faulkner in producing the Twin Sister who was actually one of a Triplet and that Triplet was produced, he then discussed what happened when they were produced in Court. The Judge was suitably impressed, and the DA was fit to be tied. Della looks up and offers, "You're saying that both girls look like our client enough to confirm the Triplets theory? Of course you are.", Perry comments, "Questioning them as Witnesses for the Defense and watching them be questioned for the Prosecution was an interesting experience for them. Ideally it will cause great upset to their case." Igor rumbles, "When people look at us or at Duke and Junior they see the two of us or our cousins the same way. Despite the fact that both Ivan and I are well part of the same litter. Duke and Junior are not either. ". Mr. Tiger offers "People see my cubs in the same way, and cannot tell them apart." Perry smiles and goes "Those are good ones."
From Doctor Who meets Perry Mason an unpublished Memoir