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
I wish I still had the dock for mine, I still have my Palm pilot.
I still have the dock, but it’s got a serial port, and I can’t manage to connect it even with a serial to USB adapter. Doubt the software would run anyway, that was under Windows 3.11 I think? 95 at best.
I just want to be able to charge mine. I love to occasionally reminisce on old devices.
Would be neat if there was Linux software for it based on reverse engineered protocol.