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
Hello! Funny you bring this up. Actually Jeff J I use them for displaying information using an app that presents itself as a Matrox Orbital display device. And for a while a company out there in the wilds of Illinois supported the Palm as an event logging tool. They made available an app that translated serial data thrown at it into Hex numbers and ASCII characters. Which I also use for debugging serial data delivery. I also collect them. Those guys and the Handspring work-alike. ----- 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 as the Doctor reads out loud his notes to the assembled crew, lawyer Perry Mason, with Duke asleep on his lap and Della who had Junior asleep on her lap, and Paul Drake who had one of the two in black asleep on his. Della taking notes asks, "Your saying that the Witness insisted that he saw our client actually bending over the victim?" The Doctor nodded, and adds, "Especially strange since the client has a twin, both are sisters and are the sort who look alike. The sister interviewed by Pauil insists she was nowhere near where it happened. And you Paul says you found witnesses to back that up?" Paul nods and goes, "Six of them it was a small meeting of the sort where they were all Friends of Bill A." From the couch in back rumbles Igor, "What is a Friends of Bill A?" Perry offers, "It's a self help group to allow people who're fighting massive consumption of alcoholic beverages to recover. It was founded by that guy when he saw how doing so damaged badly his family and even his work habits. He recovered, and wrote that book. It's the bible for AA and its related outfits." Paul then adds, "I've got Williams and Faulkner looking for an unknown triplet." From The Doctor meets Perry Mason an as yet unpublished memoir.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 4:42 PM Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Funny you bring this up. Actually Jeff J I use them for displaying information using an app that presents itself as a Matrox Orbital display device.
Very cool. I was going to mention that exact use (I'm a maintainer for LCDproc and I still keep the Matrix Orbital driver shiny and happy) I still have a box of various models but they don't see much sunlight these days, unlike the early 2000s when I always had one with me. -ethan
I have a Garman iQue that had Palm OS with an integrated GPS. Using the GPS feature without it being plugged in I got maybe 30 minutes of use if I was lucky. It was the first and last PDA I ever had. It's been in a box in my closet for over a decade. I don't remember when it came out. It was sort of like the first iPhone without the phone calling. But the handwriting transcription was fascinating. Mark On 12/7/21 13:30, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic 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
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
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