#palmpilot — Public Fediverse posts
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In a bout of early-mid 2000s nostalgia (thanks @thomholwerda ), I pulled my Palm m125 PDA out of its box on the shelf, popped in some AAA batteries, and was met with a flickering setup screen. Crap. Took it apart expecting to find a delaminated or disconnected display ribbon cable, instead I found the two coin cell capacitors were both leaking.
Thankfully they hadn't leaked onto the board yet, just themselves; praise be to the board designers who wisely installed them "upside down" so the seal was facing up and contained the leaks. I quickly got them desoldered and found that they are still made in the correct form factor with solder tabs already spot welded to them. The replacements should be here in a month.
I also found some broken plastic inside the housing, but that's expected on a relatively inexpensive piece of tech from nearly 25 years ago. Nothing a little Loctite super glue can't fix.
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Anybody remember these? I loved my PalmPilot. I had a hissy fit when they took it away from me at work.
#PalmPilot #EarlyElectronics
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À la pointe de la modernité !
#palmPilot #palmPowered #PalmPilotShouldHaveWon -
@thomasfuchs
The good old times.
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So, it's 2026 and I've just had my ~30 year old Palm III given back to me. Batteries seem to have leaked, but cleaning the contacts has done the trick and it's working!
It's got IrDA and 9-pin serial, which none of my modern computers have, and no removable storage. How the hell do I get software on this thing in 2026 with a linux laptop? I've got a USB to serial dongle, just got no idea what software to use.
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Una mas para la coleccion..
#palm #palmpilot #pda #RetroComputing -
I’m not a hardware guy — I don’t understand any of this — but I want this tiny little USB-C ↔️ Palm III adapter board
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One of Palm’s entry level PDAs in the early 2000s: the Palm m105
#RetroTech #PalmPilot #00sComputing #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #2000sTech
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This is the PDA that got me through college: the Sony CLIÉ PEG-SJ33. I thought the built-in see-through cover was so cool!
#RetroTech #00sComputing #PalmPilot #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #2000sTech
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Got a new battery for my Palm Zire!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/115897573715448100
I hesitate to boost this impression that #Palm #PalmPilot people needed or wanted keyboards. making up a simple alphabet we could scrawl quickly was the BEST ui ever! Remember when palms were the ur Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)?
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It's a big enough ask to say "do you remember Palm Pilots," but it's an even bigger one to ask "did you know they made a _camera_ for them?"
Because of course they did, and of course I had one (even though I only had the lowest of low-end Palm Pilot model), and of course I still have all the pictures I took with it.
I was taking retro digital photos before it was cool! *shakes fist at cloud*
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More portable #retrocomputing philosophizing: Whether a machine has "Instant-On" makes a huge difference in the tasks it's useful for. By this, I mean whether the machine returns to the same program and screen where you left it, when powered back on from inactivity.
Without "Instant-On", the machine demands to be used for long sessions, (else the boot time is too inconvenient) and demands your constant attention (else the power draw of leaving it sitting around powered on is wasted). Using the machine involves clearing your schedule and devoting yourself to it, like reading a book.
Examples of machines without "Instant-On": DOS-era laptops, #Book8088, #GameBoy, #MailStation.
With "Instant-On", the machine is useful for PDA-style quick jottings, grocery lists, etc. It is also useful for fun activities even in circumstances where you are likely to be interrupted.
Examples of machines with "Instant-On": #HP200LX, #HpOmniBook, #PalmPilot, #PocketPC, #TI92 (and other TI calculators), and, of course, smartphones.
While machines in the first category may offer a more immersive experience, they are far less useful to me than machines in the second category. It's like the difference between a luggable and a true mobile computer.
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today's retro rescue is a palm tungsten T5 - the late flagship model in the tungsten line of PDAs
ten years ago i had nothing but a tungsten for all of my computing needs - i wrote emails and letters on it, and played a lot of Infocom text adventures at night. with a wireless keyboard (which uses the IR port!) it was surprisingly useful and got me a year and a half of daily driving.
the T5 is just the right balance of features and performance - it has the fastest intel XScale processor @ 416 mhz, built-in bluetooth, and a beefy 320x480 lcd.
the previous owner appeared to have turned this into his mp3 player.
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Graffiti was so well-designed that I still remember nearly all the strokes 20 years later!
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Taking a look at my Palm IIIx
https://www.goto10retro.com/p/taking-a-look-at-my-old-palm-iiix
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My wife was cleaning our basement today and uncovered this old relic of mine.
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So I rocked a Zire 72 then a T|X back in the day. The T|X was the first device I owned personally with Wi-Fi. I remember walking around the streets in my neighborhood looking for open networks.
Those were the days.
kracked dude (If you know, you know.)
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#PalmPilot
"You didn’t spend the money on a Palm Pilot to play games or scroll social media. You spent the extra money on a Palm PDA because you had a job to do. Palm Pilots were the original productivity monsters, keeping us on schedule and connected..."I still have mine and I know it works.
I still use a Palm Pilot in 2025, and you should, too
"So many products offer to help us disconnect, but sometimes you need to look to the past."
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Wow, this is a 25-year-old Palm Pilot still being used in 2025
“They were the original distraction-free technology before we even needed such a thing. You didn’t spend the money on a Palm Pilot to play games or scroll social media. You spent the extra money on a Palm PDA because you had a job to do. Palm Pilots ...continues
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/wow-this-is-a-25-year-old-palm-pilot-still-being-used-in-2025/
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Wow, this is a 25-year-old Palm Pilot still being used in 2025
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-a982db01-52a27c11a79c1b25
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This "never delete data" thing ... seems I still have backups of my Palm Pilot in my backups.
I'm going to search if there's an emulator I could load that into next am I not
