“Palm reading, it’s not just for fortune tellers any more!” OK, that was really lame. Regardless of this, it is fun to take the occasional trip down memory lane. And this article in eWeek empowers us to do this with great style.
Introduced 10 years ago, the original Palm device, the PalmPilot 1000, entered a fragmented PDA market and followed a succession of failed pen-based computing platforms.
But, by marrying the pen to the PDA and providing a simple design at a low cost, Palm Computing (now just Palm) succeeded where others had failed.
In the years since, Palm devices have come and gone—and eWEEK Labs (known as PC Week Labs when the Palm platform was first introduced) has reviewed them all. Some broke new ground, while others landed on the scene with a resounding thud. We remember the good, the bad and the (literally) ugly.
PalmPilot 1000
Back in 1996, the first Palm PR outreach involved sending evaluation units to pundits like PC Week’s John Dodge rather than to reviewers. Labs got a PalmPilot 1000 several months after the commercial introduction, and we quickly concurred with John’s assessment: Simple, inexpensive, more efficient than paper, the PDA was reborn. Source: eWeek
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