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

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 all run in proper Palmpilot or Palm OS emulators, so you do get the actual feeling of using the device right down to the Graffiti writing (which took me a few minutes to get used to again (it’s been a good 30 years since I last used a Palmpilot).

Partly the power behind Palm was the ability to install 3rd party community apps, and there were really some very good ones. It may look awfully simple today but that was the limitation of the graphics and devices of the time. This was long before smartphones and up to this point we mostly only had dumb fixed ROM pocket organisers.

See archive.org/details/softwareli…
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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

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

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 the standard notes, calendar, contact, etc functionality (like the Sharp ZQ-3200 organiser with 64kB of RAM and a serial link). The PalmPilot also allowed 3rd party apps to be installed. It would also interface with some PC apps to sync data when you pressed the sync button on the cradle.

I think I moved to a Psion 5 after the Palm Pilot. Its EPOC OS was the forerunner to the Symbian OS that appeared on Nokia phones later on.

The 1990’s was an exciting time of innovative breakthroughs in all sorts of consumer computing devices.

There is a pretty good history and context and the link below and covers both the rise and the fall of Palm.

See arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…
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