hporter
Active Member
I loved my Palm Pilot's. I bought my first one when it came out in 1996.
It really blew the minds of the office staff in our headquarters in San Diego when I could send in reports over the Palm Pilot modem accessory real time from the bridge of a Drill Ship in the Gulf of Mexico.
I had bought an Epson digital camera that same year. It could hold 10 or 15 images at VGA resolution on it's built in storage chip. You had to transfer them off with a DB-9 connector cable. Easy to use with your laptop and to be able to send images over the laptop in an age when 35mm cameras were normally being used - and you had to get them developed before sharing them which was hard to do when at sea. Incredible technology at the time, but laughable now. But incredibly useful doing sea trials and trying to get good information back to the software programmers. I still have that camera, I need to put some AA batteries in and see if it still works. Trouble would be finding a computer with a DB-9 connector these days.
Sorry you lost your data. I found one of my Palmpilot backup's last year and was surprised all the data from so long ago was still readable. I still have several Palm Pilot's around here somewhere in a box as well as my Palm Pilot based cellphone that I had at one time. It was good technology for it's time. I could "type" faster using the plastic stylus and it's handwriting recognition technology than I can with my stupid iPhone in which my big fingers always manage to hit the wrong buttons.
It really blew the minds of the office staff in our headquarters in San Diego when I could send in reports over the Palm Pilot modem accessory real time from the bridge of a Drill Ship in the Gulf of Mexico.
I had bought an Epson digital camera that same year. It could hold 10 or 15 images at VGA resolution on it's built in storage chip. You had to transfer them off with a DB-9 connector cable. Easy to use with your laptop and to be able to send images over the laptop in an age when 35mm cameras were normally being used - and you had to get them developed before sharing them which was hard to do when at sea. Incredible technology at the time, but laughable now. But incredibly useful doing sea trials and trying to get good information back to the software programmers. I still have that camera, I need to put some AA batteries in and see if it still works. Trouble would be finding a computer with a DB-9 connector these days.
Sorry you lost your data. I found one of my Palmpilot backup's last year and was surprised all the data from so long ago was still readable. I still have several Palm Pilot's around here somewhere in a box as well as my Palm Pilot based cellphone that I had at one time. It was good technology for it's time. I could "type" faster using the plastic stylus and it's handwriting recognition technology than I can with my stupid iPhone in which my big fingers always manage to hit the wrong buttons.