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  1. Imagine a single, hand-held device, that could take pictures, scan barcodes, connect to a wireless network or the Internet, or play music! Maybe not all at the same time, but let's not be greedy... #Palm #HandSpring #HandSpringVisor

  2. Around 10 years after I started my #Handspring Springboard collection... I finally got my hands on an MP3-player springboard. An InnoGear MiniJam. It has two card slots! And it seems when it says "MMC", it means "MMC"! 😌

    This has been a white whale of mine for a while... Now I'm chuffed to bits!

    Now to figure out how to get music to it... I can't seem to read the cards as e.g. FAT and devsaurus.github.io/ has a loader tool but it crashes the Visor. 😌

  3. @sushee I was a hardcore geek in the 1990s. I uploaded text files from Project Gutenberg into the Handspring’s text app, anticipating the day of the ereader. The Handspring was an offshoot of the Palm Pilot. I’ve had some sort of pocket ereader ever since. #Palm #Handspring

  4. My Handspring Visor Neo is up & running again after many years. And yes, I'm going to use it. I already synced my calendar, tasks, etc.

    I remember almost all of the Graffiti letters. In fact I have the feeling that I'm faster now with graffiti than back then but probably it's my buggy memory 😆

    #Handspring #VisorNeo #Palm #PDA #retrocomputing

  5. *imagines a module made for Handspring PDAs that leverage an esp32/s3 to allow for easy connection to modern wifi networks*

    wasn't such a thing already basically concocted for classic Macs?
    #Palm #PalmOS #Handspring

  6. This #handspring visor #pda and it's wonderfull transparent dock are the new members of the family

  7. @iammannyj @s31bz

    In the late 90s/early 00s I used the #Handspring visors for a while (Deluxe in blue followed by Edge in silver)

    Next were the Nokia internet tablets running #maemo, including the #NokiaN950 (#meego harmattan)

    Also the Nokia communicators, including the #NokiaE90

    More recently rocking a #GPDpocket, but that's out of scope for this poll.

  8. ok here's my proof of work. i didn't want to bother with cradles for my #handspring #visor #pda so i put a factory-looking #miniusb #port on it for #hotsync

  9. Wiring An SD card To A Handspring PDA’s 68K Bus With Only Three SOT23s - In 1998 the founders of Palm had a bit of a falling out with the wildly successful... - hackaday.com/2024/01/13/wiring #reverseengineering #retrocomputing #handspring #pdahack #pda

  10. Wiring An SD card To A Handspring PDA’s 68K Bus With Only Three SOT23s - In 1998 the founders of Palm had a bit of a falling out with the wildly successful... - hackaday.com/2024/01/13/wiring #reverseengineering #retrocomputing #handspring #pdahack #pda

  11. Wiring An SD card To A Handspring PDA’s 68K Bus With Only Three SOT23s - In 1998 the founders of Palm had a bit of a falling out with the wildly successful... - hackaday.com/2024/01/13/wiring #reverseengineering #retrocomputing #handspring #pdahack #pda

  12. Wiring An SD card To A Handspring PDA’s 68K Bus With Only Three SOT23s - In 1998 the founders of Palm had a bit of a falling out with the wildly successful... - hackaday.com/2024/01/13/wiring #reverseengineering #retrocomputing #handspring #pdahack #pda

  13. Wiring An SD card To A Handspring PDA’s 68K Bus With Only Three SOT23s - In 1998 the founders of Palm had a bit of a falling out with the wildly successful... - hackaday.com/2024/01/13/wiring #reverseengineering #retrocomputing #handspring #pdahack #pda

  14. I paid too much and had to ship it from the US… But finally it is mine: #eyemodule camera for the #handspring visor #pda

  15. @atomicpoet @rasterweb Exactly this. Well almost, since I had a #Handspring Visor, but still...

    How much stuff you could fit on those 8 MB!

    A friend of mine was convinced back then that the Treo, arguably the first Smartphone and designed to replace the Visor, could never, ever be a success because "How can you take notes or look up something while talking on the phone? We NEED two separate devices!"

    What a pity that Jobs guy did never get the memo... *sigh*

  16. I finally got around to watching @theverge documentary on and it was fantastic! and were both my first mobile devices and this brought me right back.

    theverge.com/2021/12/7/2282057

  17. I have a PDA, with the box somewhere, was exceedingly helpful, once.
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    RT @Grady_Booch
    In case my iPhone stops working
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