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2020-01-03 16:48:47

christophs@pluspora.com

Vom Zeitplaner zum PDA | HNF Blog

Vor vierzig Jahren erschien ein neuer Computertyp. Der Taschencomputer war so groß wie ein Taschenrechner und besaß Tasten mit Buchstaben; damit gab man Programme ein. Aus dem Taschencomputer entwickelten sich der Laptop sowie eine zweite Gerätegattung, der Organizer oder Persönliche Digitale Assistent. Er ist kaum noch im Handel, doch lebt er in Gestalt des Smartphones weiter.

I am sure some of my followers had one of these early gadgets

#retrocomputing #palm #pda

https://blog.hnf.de/vom-zeitplaner-zum-pda/

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2020-01-03 16:54:17

Mark Nowiasz

buckaroo@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Oh yes, I had some PalmOS Devices, including a Garmin IQ which you could use for navigation. I really liked PalmOS

2020-01-03 17:14:26

Andrea Borgia

abo@pluspora.com

I had a Palm III and later a Vx, marvellous machines for the puny he they had.

2020-01-03 17:15:01

Andrea Borgia

abo@pluspora.com

I had a Palm III and later a Vx, marvellous machines for the puny HW they had.

2020-01-03 23:55:38

David Given

davidgiven@pluspora.com

I still have a Palm IIIe. Interesting device; a very usable 160x160 screen, a single-tasking OS with seamless app loading/storing of state to almost perfectly simulate multitasking, database based storage with no real filesystem, and all your data stored in RAM so every time the battery jiggled all your data went blip. Which it did. Often.

2020-01-04 04:38:30

Stephen Gunnell

steveg58@pluspora.com

I also had a Palm III and later a V but eventually the Palm Outlook link was broken and my one killer app for them was no more.

2020-01-04 15:04:53

Alex Taylor

zeem@pluspora.com

I've got a Palm IIIe with the transparent case. I bought it for £1 for a car boot sale, complete with the serial dock. I used it for a few years as a to-do list and notepad at work - this was in about 2006-7. I replaced it with a Zire 72, also bought for next to nothing, which had the main advantage that I could also use it as an MP3 player with the Pocket Tunes app.

2020-09-16 06:47:33

0mega ✇ [d*]

0mega@nerdpol.ch

I still have a Casio Cassiopeia E-115G and a Siemens IC35.