Never had a Palm but ever the trend bucker, I did have a Handspring Visor; am I remembering correctly they were colorful pastelly plastic like the early iMacs? At Microsoft we all got an iPAQ acourse running windows mobile. They were chrome and shiny like Cylons. I still have mine, I'm sure of it.
I sort of appreciated how the original founders of Palm sold it to 3Com, left and created Handspring, licensing Palm OS and building a better Palm Pilot. I hope they made a killing.
I never was much on Windows Mobile. I had a couple of them - but preferred PalmOS, Symbian or even CrackBerry.
You weren't alone in not being a fan of Windows Mobile. Crackberry ... I had a gig at BofA at the time and they ran on those. Had so much fun with RIM's BES servers. Their downfall is a story kind of the opposite of Palm.
I loved that era! The Palm was certainly the best PDA of its day. I wrote (and sold) a few apps for it, which you can still find here: https://strout.net/pilotsoft/intro.shtml ...provided of course you can figure out some way to load them!
I too thought Graffiti was a very clever solution, but not the fastest possible input method for the hardware. I developed an alternative (for later Palm devices) called HexInput, which evolved into the QUONG layout: https://strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html
Nice! My first Palm was the IIIe - which I loved so much (and it had no upgrade path) that I ended up upgrading to a Handspring Treo. PDA & cell phone in one.
And my IIIe still works today. Slap new batteries and she fires right up.
I had the original USRobotics PalmPilot - still have it but it stopped working. Man that thing was awesome. I was so good at graffiti that it replaced my regular handwriting.
Never had a Palm but ever the trend bucker, I did have a Handspring Visor; am I remembering correctly they were colorful pastelly plastic like the early iMacs? At Microsoft we all got an iPAQ acourse running windows mobile. They were chrome and shiny like Cylons. I still have mine, I'm sure of it.
I sort of appreciated how the original founders of Palm sold it to 3Com, left and created Handspring, licensing Palm OS and building a better Palm Pilot. I hope they made a killing.
I never was much on Windows Mobile. I had a couple of them - but preferred PalmOS, Symbian or even CrackBerry.
You weren't alone in not being a fan of Windows Mobile. Crackberry ... I had a gig at BofA at the time and they ran on those. Had so much fun with RIM's BES servers. Their downfall is a story kind of the opposite of Palm.
I loved that era! The Palm was certainly the best PDA of its day. I wrote (and sold) a few apps for it, which you can still find here: https://strout.net/pilotsoft/intro.shtml ...provided of course you can figure out some way to load them!
I too thought Graffiti was a very clever solution, but not the fastest possible input method for the hardware. I developed an alternative (for later Palm devices) called HexInput, which evolved into the QUONG layout: https://strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html
Thanks for a very fun stroll down memory lane!
Nice! My first Palm was the IIIe - which I loved so much (and it had no upgrade path) that I ended up upgrading to a Handspring Treo. PDA & cell phone in one.
And my IIIe still works today. Slap new batteries and she fires right up.
I had the original USRobotics PalmPilot - still have it but it stopped working. Man that thing was awesome. I was so good at graffiti that it replaced my regular handwriting.
As a tech obsessed child I stole my mother’s Palm then went on to buy myself the trios when they came out.