Old School Monday: Pocket Jockey
Old School Monday: Pocket Jockey
Posted 11/08/2010 at 5:09pm
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Since I was still rockin' a super-cool teal pager in August 1997, we got everyone's favorite editor Gordon Mah Ung to chime in on the late 90's PDA craze:
When I arrived at boot, the entire staff had already been admitted to the PalmPilot cult. I soon joined the same cult after miserably failing with my Post It Notes method at the now defunct PC Expo show and was a die-hard Palm supported until Windows CE put its foot on its windpipe and choked it out. Still, it’s hard not to look back on those halcyon PalmPilot days and think that the future had arrived. With your entire calendar and contact list in your pocket, and a modem option, you could even check your email via dialup! Certainly, flying cars and the miniaturized Dick Tracey wrist phone was around the corner!
And it was. We can thank the PalmPilot for today’s smartphones. If the PalmPilot hadn’t caught on, we’d probably all be using smartphones the size of the Newton.
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YoshiHNS
November 10, 2010 at 11:37am
I remember when I got my m500. AND A KEYBOARD! It was the most amazing thing I reall remember of the time. I could type up a document and sync it to my desktop. Battery lasted all day. Eventually, we got the GPS module for it as well. First time using it was driving through the mountains of colorado. We were so amazed that we could see where the road turned ahead of us and when our road was coming up.
m500 has been sitting for a while, but I still use my Zire72 as an eReader.
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