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Deranged40 t1_ixt62yo wrote

There were over five hundred apps for Palm Pilot!?

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STGMavrick t1_ixt74ru wrote

I felt like hot shit with my palm pilot dialing out on a 56k modem to download my road trip directions with avantgo.

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poquito_kale t1_ixt9du8 wrote

I still have my Palm Pilot... Fully functional. The little compact makeup beauty mirror on the back of the slider still gleams.

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MikeLinPA t1_ixt9lae wrote

I miss my various palm pilots. My cell phone does more, but my palm did it better!

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b4-9in t1_ixt9ulr wrote

I jumped from the M100 to the iPaq- TomTom came shortly after that, I moved to a new state and started doing sales calls right away, I miss when we had breakthrough apps that could improve our lives, I wish all social media could disappear for productive apps (except Reddit of course, this is anonymous random entertainment, for entertainment sake)

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bigbabich t1_ixtasix wrote

I still take notes in palm script on paper.

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LaCiel_W t1_ixtbrwn wrote

Haven't heard the name Palm for a while, i suspect many here doesn't even know what they are.

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subgameperfect t1_ixtcdx3 wrote

Replying to UsernameJonesHere (#679,390)

It's the same for facories, oil rigs and giant production platforms that may as well reach to your house.

Turns out that newer features kinda matter less than understanding your infrastructure and having confidence.

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Greydusk1324 t1_ixte6l0 wrote

The most fun I had with a palm pilot was going to Best Buy and messing with the giant wall of TVs using the IR transmitter.

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metametapraxis t1_ixtelw3 wrote

I had an IBM branded one. It looked the shizz.

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Darkace911 t1_ixtjbiv wrote

I guess Jason Scott went on a twitter blocking spree at some point, I've been blocked. I don't remember having an agreement with him but whatever.

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SuperHuman64 t1_ixtjfpw wrote

Man this takes me back. I wanted one for so long, but phones advanced so quickly i had no need for it. Still nostalgic for it though.

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drawkbox t1_ixtkjtk wrote

This is why I donate yearly to archive.org and Wikipedia. Best things on the internet.

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Heklyr t1_ixtljsp wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#679,473)

It was mainly due to a lack of support. Developers had moved away from PalmOS and blackberry and onto iOS and android. Hard to lure them back with just a couple of new phones. I had a pre and loved it. Pretty sure I still have it somewhere.

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IAmNotNannyOgg t1_ixtod4i wrote

Just today I was telling my husband how much I miss the calendar. sigh

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Baconfat t1_ixtq8yq wrote

I think I still have a few clie and handspring devices in a box in my basement. They were great for their time. Surprised the writing on screen thing is not still a thing.

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WestNileCoronaVirus t1_ixtqggg wrote

Replying to Greydusk1324 (#679,777)

Similarly, there was one of those on one of the game boys back in the day, & there was a James Bond game that allowed you to use the transmitter on your Gameboy as a TV remote. I used to sit in the living room with my parents, who were completely unwilling to buy a new TV even though it absolutely stunk. So I’d just use my Gameboy to do random things like change the channel, tank or sky the volume, or turn the TV off altogether. They never figured it out & eventually bought a new TV because they suspected our existing TV was dysfunctional.

It was me. I was the dysfunction. My like 9 year old brain concocted this hair-brained plan to net the fam a new TV & it worked fucking perfectly. They still have no idea 🤷🏼‍♂️

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joeymonreddit t1_ixtrhnc wrote

I had a palm pixie and I loved it. WebOS was so underrated. If I’m not mistaken, webOS got integrated into LG tvs.

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Version-Abject t1_ixtu3vc wrote

I had a Zire71 for a few years. Pop up camera, colour screen, wifi. So baller.

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red286 t1_ixtupz6 wrote

Replying to Version-Abject (#681,599)

I sadly had to get rid of my Windows Phone last year as the final apps on it died. Best damned $70 (CAD, like $50 USD) I spent on a phone (or really anything lol). Switched to a relatively new Android phone, and I'm constantly disappointed with the UI.

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Version-Abject t1_ixtuwtk wrote

Replying to red286 (#681,704)

Live tiles were the best, and the way it kinda flipped around a cube… nothing like it. First device I had with an oled screen too so that added to it.

It was the perfect mix of smart device, but dumb enough that it didn’t steal my attention all day. I’d kill for a new one, apps be damned. A web browser is sufficient imo

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red286 t1_ixtvs0d wrote

Replying to Version-Abject (#681,735)

>I’d kill for a new one, apps be damned. A web browser is sufficient imo

The problem is that the IE version it was stuck with was deprecated, and a lot of sites didn't render on it for shit. After they lobotomized Cortana, it wasn't really useful any longer. Then after the store shut down, my eBook reader app died so I couldn't even use that any longer. Literally the only thing I could use it for was as a phone.

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STGMavrick t1_ixtw7sb wrote

Replying to Version-Abject (#681,577)

I got mine my freshman year in college. At Devry they had some fancy projectors in all the classrooms. They all used IR and there was an IR remote app that let you clone IR signals. I had a lot of fun.

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mtranda t1_ixtwhv7 wrote

Replying to red286 (#681,704)

Been using Windows phones since 2007, all the way from Windows Mobile 5 to Windows Phone 8. Stopped using it in 2018, as I saw the writing on the wall. But even now, five years later, I still miss it and think it was a great phone.

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jamar030303 t1_ixtxk4o wrote

Replying to STGMavrick (#678,894)

When I was in school I somehow convinced my dad to get me a cellular module and monthly data plan for mine. I too felt like hot shit even though I used it mostly for looking up Pokemon cheats and glitches during recess.

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jens-2420 t1_ixu97hk wrote

Internet Archive has weird book conversions. And nearly all of the books are for temporary reading now. I lost interest.

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donald_f_draper t1_ixuc6eg wrote

I’m using a Palm Pilot within a browser within Reddit within my iPhone. I need to lie down

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00DEADBEEF t1_ixucs6n wrote

Replying to FireyFrost34 (#680,258)

Palm Pilot was a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) with a stylus-driven touch screen. These were popular in the early 2000s as business devices which could do emails and basic web browsing.

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PotBaron2 t1_ixuewrm wrote

12 year old me loved dope wars

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ConciselyVerbose t1_ixufktr wrote

Replying to MikeLinPA (#679,215)

I wouldn’t actually convert but there are times I wish I could do a physical keyboard and stuff like this unihertz Titan is really tempting. A case the replicated the slide out keyboard a few phones had back in the day would be golden.

Ultimately you can’t pry me away from iPhone regardless but that’s about the only thing I miss.

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sevens-on-her-sleeve t1_ixug9o7 wrote

In 2003 I used a Zire72 at my job as a RN. It had a drug book app that kept me from having to carry a physical drug book in my pocket, so I could look up drug uses, interactions, and side effects right from my Palm. Fucking magic

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redditKad t1_ixujhje wrote

Replying to 00DEADBEEF (#683,787)

When the iPhone came out, most of us were thinking: so the Palm I've had for years, but without the stylus... it had emails, it had apps, calendars, games, some models were phones, etc.

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farcaller t1_ixuk7ft wrote

My favorite game was something about star trek, a strategy with small ships moving around the grid. I remember playing it on an emulator even before I had a palm handheld.

Makes me wonder if I should just get a new charger somewhere off ebay and revive mine.

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CockerSpankiel t1_ixulcye wrote

I had a Palm Pilot pro my senior year of college. I remember shelling out over $200 for it. It became my brain and was so helpful! Absolutely no regrets. But this is funny xD

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queef_vaccuum t1_ixull19 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#679,473)

fuck no. the pre was fine but the pixi was too buggy imo. i vividly remember being in the car on the highway and a cool car was driving alongside of us. i whip out my pixi to take a photo and the whole phone freezes. i had to reboot it but by that time the car had drove away. i nearly tossed the pixi out of the window that day

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jrutz t1_ixumutt wrote

I had a Kyocera Smart Phone I got cheap from CompUSA, and would use Vindigo all the time. Many cities and countries. It was a life saver, especially the public bathrooms guide.

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EnigmaWithAlien t1_ixumxqu wrote

Agendus (earlier known as ACT Names) was a wonderful program. I can't find anything like it in the phone world. Not here either, worse luck.

Besides, on the Palm you could design your own icons.

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EnigmaWithAlien t1_ixuntqh wrote

Replying to Version-Abject (#681,639)

I loved my Zire 71. When I saw it in the store as soon as the guy pulled up that screen and scanned it around and I saw the store in it, I was hooked. It's still around somewhere. I should get it out and revive it.

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Nakotadinzeo t1_ixuqa77 wrote

Replying to subgameperfect (#679,585)

We really need to make a middleware platform for this software. The runtime handles translation between adapters and such, and the software just has to handle doing its job to control whatever hardware.

This is what UNIX was made for on the software side. A UNIX program from the 70's can usually be compiled on a POSIX OS like Linux or MacOS fairly easily.

Problem is that Windows isn't one of those POSIX platforms, and you can't compile what you don't have the source for anyway. That also doesn't change how the software interfaces with the hardware.

The hardware and the proprietary software are the big issue. 3ven if we find a fix, it's a fix for future machines and not present ones.

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Nakotadinzeo t1_ixuqqh8 wrote

Replying to MikeLinPA (#679,215)

Your palm pilot didn't need to communicate with EAs servers to validate your DRM before starting Tetris...

Your tip calculator didn need to send a report to crashalitics every time it opened successfully.

I got a Knox based firewall, and holy crap does a lot of shit reach out to a server for useless unneeded reasons.

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Nakotadinzeo t1_ixurdqs wrote

Replying to b4-9in (#679,257)

Mastodon is replacing Twitter pretty rapidly, and being organized more like email servers... It feels a little bit like that. I'm using the tool, it's not using me. No anger headaches.

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Waste_Return_3038 t1_ixusaoc wrote

The amount of times I dramatically folded out my palm portable keyboard dock to jot down some info thinking I was so cool makes me cringe hard today 😩

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crumbled-feta t1_ixut0hw wrote

I had a few Handspring Visors, Sony Clies, and Palm Treo Phones. I used to nerd out pretty hard over Palm Pilots.

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securitypro669 t1_ixuv3a1 wrote

Replying to Baconfat (#681,201)

I remember when Handspring first showed up and there was a clear divide between Palm and Handspring users. Not like the divide between PocketPC and Palm OS but it as there. Handspring were very well made devices.

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Tohu_va_Vohu t1_ixuzute wrote

Replying to gizamo (#679,725)

I made a few game apps myself. Lost a lot of money doing it. CodeWarrior was like $500. I didn’t sell many copies, and got sued for mentioning Tetris in my ad copy.

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n3rdopolis t1_ixv0q6w wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#680,931)

PalmSource (the makers of the OS) invested all in their Access Linux Platform which was even more vaporware than Cobalt was. Palm Inc, the makers of the hardware, failed at the Folio, and then WebOS.

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TheDeadWriter t1_ixv3eyo wrote

This archive makes me wistful my transparent orange Handspring Visor, long since donated. (Yet for some reason I keep coming across replacement styluses. I'd load up the storage Springboard with games like Ultima 3, Bejeweled and what ever Chip's Challenge or Pengu clone I had.

There are still Alpha Smart Dana (Palm OS based) users that are both going to love finding these apps easily available and hate learning that this archive exists, as most use them as dedicated word processing devices that are "distraction free"- not so distraction free now!

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Blazien t1_ixv65u1 wrote

Replying to Nakotadinzeo (#685,704)

I had the HTC M8 which also had one internally. There is all sorts of options on Amazon though that can plug in externally via 3.5mm or USB C(compatible with both Android and iPhone).

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gizamo t1_ixv8stq wrote

Replying to Tohu_va_Vohu (#687,370)

Ha. Nice. Not for the Palm, but I once got sued because my app icon had a bird. Apparently, some company claimed all bird icons as under their (unregistered) trademark. Lol. Some people are idiots.

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brock1samson9 t1_ixvc5t8 wrote

Replying to throwaway_ghast (#679,339)

Unfortunately I can't find a way to enter amounts while playing on my phone. I can only buy/sell max value and can only pay the laps shark the full debt which I can't get to the full value and therefore can't pay. So inevitably I end up with my legs broke

NVM I figured it out with the numbers on the virtual pad. $62k and change high score

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TAG_X-Acto t1_ixvg901 wrote

Someone just give me an honest recreation of Bike or Die. That was the best mobile game I ever played. Nothing could match it. I played the shit out of it on my Treo 650.

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FTTraveler t1_ixvp5ec wrote

I feel like such a nerd to think of this as /r/upliftingnews

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DBDude t1_ixvqde1 wrote

Looks fun, but I am not going to take the time to relearn Palm script (and I was quite fast back in the day).

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MikeLinPA t1_ixvt3r2 wrote

Replying to Nakotadinzeo (#685,936)

Yeah, this! Data mining and DRM not only invade our privacy, they waste our bandwidth and cycle time. We have to wait our turn to use our own devices!

Remember, we're not men, we're wallets, put here solely to be exploited for profit. If we momentarily forget out place, our devices will report us!

*No, I'm not actually a conspiracy nut, but the US very often put profits above human well-being. For example, take the phrase, 'pre-existing condition". In any other developed nation, it never existed. It was simply your medical history. Profit is a major evil in our society.

Sorry for the rant. Enjoy your weekend.

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tmefford t1_ixw2gjn wrote

Had a Palm in Nursing School. Literally had a stack of books in it so didn’t have a knapsack full of books to drag around. Second year, the head of the school said they wouldn’t allow them as they wanted the students to learn how to use the reference texts. My response: “What? The new students don’t know how to work a book?” I kept using my Palm.

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enThirty t1_ixw3vta wrote

I remember working for this guy who had a palm treo. It was that it a blackberry or maybe some weird Nokia… I had to sync that phone to his computer file maker pro data base contact list. Whoa. That took several pieces of software and hours upon hours to transfer the data over. It was ridiculous.

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mountainsofjello t1_ixw9o3f wrote

I remember putting a NES, Gameboy and SNES emulator on an old Palm device in 2020. Back at the height of my pandemic boredom. Found the emulator files online and uploaded roms into the phone through Bluetooth

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Square_Possibility38 t1_ixwb0e6 wrote

A lot of people mentioning how useful/fun the it blaster was…I wish they kept those around

I had a htc phone years ago with an ir blaster and it was incredibly handy for when you lose the remote or when you wanna fuck w the Fox News crowd at the barber shop or when you’re at a restaurant want to watch something specific and no one is watching whatever nonsense is on.

I get it’s not really going to be useful in the future, but if I always had one in my pocket I’d have used it quite a lot over these last years

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BeakersWorkshop t1_ixwzm20 wrote

I had three, the last one (still have it) was a Tungsten. Love that device. I worked for a service company and it was my constant companion. Job lists, Po’s contacts, parts lists, and of course the best todo list ever. Love that device.

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bozodev t1_ixx6yfn wrote

I got my first taste of software development on a Palm Pilot. I miss those days. It was some of the most fulfilling work even with all of the challenges and limitations.

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cacraw t1_ixxjaht wrote

Replying to Deranged40 (#678,773)

I made one that I released freeware and is one of the 565 on the site. (“Grafaid”) In the “license” I said if it was included in any compilations (books with CDs of software were popular) you had to send me a copy. Similarly, if you used it as part of development of paid software you had to send me a free license. Got a few books and a couple of programs!

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pinchies t1_ixygyhx wrote

Massive, massive props to Christian Speckner who had a good idea and has seen it through to completion in an awesome way. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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