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
You should be able to get a generic RS-232 to USB cable that will work as an adapter. They’re still used for microcontroller and old hardware.
As for drivers, run the software in a VM with a 32 bit OS. That may work.
Also there is apparently a currently maintained piece of Linux software called J-Pilot that seems to replace Palm’s actual syncing software so you don’t have to run crunchy old 32-bit Windows software.