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Tag: palmpilot

Wow, this is a 25-year-old Palm Pilot still being used in 2025

2025-03-292025-03-29 Danie
A hand holds a Palm V PDA showcasing its menu, with a blue crocheted creature in the background, set against a wooden surface.

“They were the original distraction-free technology before we even needed such a thing. You didn’t spend the money on a Palm Pilot to play games or scroll social media. You spent the extra money on […]

Blogpalmpilot, retro, technology

The Internet Archive has hundreds of full usable Palmpilot apps that you can run in your browser

2024-05-082024-05-08 Danie
A Palmpilot about screen with text: About HanDBase. HanDBase V1.10 UNREGISTERED by DDH Software sales@ddhsoftware.com For more Palmpilot software go to http://www.ddhsoftware.com or call +1561-432-7DDH for a free catalog. Bittons at the bottom show as OK and Register with a time of 30 days left shown.

This really brings back memories, and I was even able to run the HanDBase app, which was a database app you could use to easily create a database with properly defined fields etc. The apps […]

Blogpalmpilot, retro, technology

Palm OS and the devices that ran it: Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets, and Palm did them best

2024-04-252024-04-25 Danie
A grey coloured PDA device resting in a cradle on a desk. At the bottom of the PDA are four round buttons, with a small green button to the left, and in the centre bottom are two smaller rectangular buttons for scrolling up or down. Bottom right of the cradle is a single round button.

I remember my PalmPilot very well. I used its Graffiti handwriting recognition to take many memos and keep my life organised. I’m pretty sure before the PalmPilot I only had fixed ROM organisers which had […]

Blogpalmpilot, retrocomputing, technology
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