Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Palm Pilot PDA: 25 years old!
If you are into the PDA thing check out a nice documentary on YT about Handspring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-LmyroJKw Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone (2021) I still take my T|C out and play with it every few years. Amazing device when you add wifi. -andy
On Dec 7, 2021, at 11:10 PM, madodel via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
From: madodel <madodel@mac.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Palm Pilot PDA: 25 years old! Date: December 7, 2021 at 11:10:47 PM EST To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org
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.
On 12/10/21 8:53 AM, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
If you are into the PDA thing check out a nice documentary on YT about Handspring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-LmyroJKw
Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone (2021)
I still take my T|C out and play with it every few years. Amazing device when you add wifi.
Still have a few Palm Pilots. My wife loved her Palm Phone (I still have it). Not sure if she liked the iPhone better. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
I had a US Robotics PALM that I gave away at one of the repair shops, the screen had slowly stopped working on it. I had bought a Palm TX with IR keyboard around 2005 or 2006 that I used as an MP3 player and calendar for several years. It eventually had a weird screen drift issue where even immediately after doing a screen recalibration the resistive touch screen taps wouldn't line up with where you were clicking. I also donated a Netwon 2100, 2000 and eMate 300 to the museum with wifi cards and an old wifi router that worked with them. They were fun to play around with. The person I bought the 2100 from had originally used it for some kind of engineering or architecture work and included some software related with it. When I worked at Sears in 2007 they had an inventory system that used handhelds with built in laser scanners that ran on an older version of palm os and I was always having to reset them and show people how to write in Graffiti 2 (there was also an identical looking version of this that ran windows CE but I never saw one in real life). They still used them up until around 2012 at that store until they replaced them with iPod and iPad based stems with a case that had a built in barcode scanner. Another interesting documentary about handheld companies would be "General Magic <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1uJAEAXlXk>" I cant remember if this is the one where they talk about having stacks of modems laying around that they couldn't do anything with or if that is a different documentary. -Matt King On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 8:54 AM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
If you are into the PDA thing check out a nice documentary on YT about Handspring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-LmyroJKw
Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone (2021)
I still take my T|C out and play with it every few years. Amazing device when you add wifi.
-andy
On Dec 7, 2021, at 11:10 PM, madodel via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
From: madodel <madodel@mac.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Palm Pilot PDA: 25 years old! Date: December 7, 2021 at 11:10:47 PM EST To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org
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.
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