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cross-posted from: https://mamot.fr/users/thibaultamartin/statuses/113879452911907737

Palms were offline devices that only synced with your computer when put on a docking station.

You could read and reply to emails offline, book or cancel meetings, and sync with your computer later. The latest versions allowed you to snap pictures and listen to your music.

No servers running constantly. No data spilled everywhere. Days worth of battery on a single charge.

The future stole our cables, and it took our attention span and our privacy with it.

#privacy #offline #data

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I miss my Newton. :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

On a single charge? The Palm Pilot used 2xAAA batteries. You could use rechargeables, I suppose, but they would have been NiCads, not Lithiums, in the 90’s. More likely you were using disposables.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My palm treo 650 was the most badass phone ever

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Laptops were offline devices that only synced with any computer when put on a phone cable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The boss already had wifi. But it was a large external antenna and the speeds were terrible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Whoa, that sounds interesting!
(I should have clarified that I meant like the first laptops, at the dawn of computer intraconnectivity)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The III had an IR sync as well, but you had to initiate it and it was line of sight with the IR port on your computer.

I had it working with my Rev. B iMac.

Man, I miss my Palm III. Left it in a jacket pocket too close to a wall heater. :(

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're shockingly useful today as a tool to manage ADHD, since they have a buncha organizational software baked into the OS, with plenty of other productivity apps still available for download off of PalmDB, without the connectivity nor distractions of a modern smartphone. I'm using a Sony PEG-UX50, which uses PalmOS 5, has a built in keyboard, and expandable memory (in the form of Sony Memory Sticks, cause Sony was addicted to format wars at the time.)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh, I remember those sexy boyos!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

It's smaller than I was expecting, but in fairness modern smartphones are gigantic. It's perfectly sized for comfortable usage of the keyboard, and is genuinely worth grabbing one if the interest and budget are there for it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Loved my Palm III. Simpler days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I used to take notes on paper in graffiti cause it was kind of a pseudo shorthand.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had a handspring visor and I miss it. Fold out keyboard dock that fit in one shirt pocket, and the visor in another, I was set for the day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This was college life for me. Took notes on it because I could type faster than I could write. Bitter sweet memories as I have a love hate relationship with my current always connected phone.

But for phones the BlackBerry keyboard is what I really miss. That and the sliding form factor of the palm pre. Then there was windows ce devices. This were cool, but were huge and guzzled battery power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh man I miss my BlackBerry Pearl, those were awesome devices. And the company BES server delivered email faster than anything. I always got notifications a couple of seconds before my iPhone colleagues who had made the switch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Two letters per key and the auto correct was just so flipping good. I could fly on that keyboard.

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