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[I Think Im Dumb]

Hey everyone share you old Pda tales here!

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[I Think Im Dumb]

I remember my first palm....Palm Vx I loved that Vx i would play on its outdated screen 4 hours. Then one day it died :( and i was sad so parents bought me a new palm and I am glad :D

Good Story eh?

Na it sucks :D

[zackepceo]

Whoa.. it's like a Mike P with the shift key.. j/k :D
I used to stay up at night and read Avantgo on my visor neo by the crappy reversed backlight.

[I Think Im Dumb]

Good Story:D

[inomad]

i would impress the hell out of my 7th grade class with my visor 8mb, years ago. I had a 120x120 b&w camera module on it. The total cost was $380 for the uniy and camera.

I have had many advanced pdas in the past, and have been told countless times to never bring them to highschool again.
(but i dont listen)

[I Think Im Dumb]

Cool :D

[zackepceo]

They told me I couldnt brink my visor to school once, then I made a great big deal about it and they kinda shut up :D

[I Think Im Dumb]

Thats happening at my school now :(

[kjbad]

I used to think the backlight on my Hansdspring Visor was the coolest thing! Then I got the Visorphone and everybody at work was drooling...until the Treos came out!!! I recently gave my Visor (minus the Visorphone module) to my 7-year old...he uses it to play all my old B&W games and as a universal remote for the TV. It used to be the only ORANGE PDA I could find...until the SJ33 came out!

[Fez]

I would impress everybody with my old M130. I loved that little PDA because it was built like a tank, I once accidently drop kicked and it didn't do anything at all. All the adults would find the fact I could read CNN on Avantgo amazing.

[zackepceo]

You accidentially kicked it? Okay...

[Fez]

I dropped it and ran to grab it but I hit it with my foot accidentally.

[A1CPete]

Years and years ago, my girlfriend at the time called me at work from school in tears because she broke the screen to the Palm IIIe I had bought her. I didn't think it was really that big a deal (it was at the time when they were on closeout at staples for like $120), she then proceeded to break the screen on the new on too. About a year later we broke up.

Then, once I was at a pharmacy taking a note or something on my handspring visor edge, and someone looked over my shoulder at it and said "oh that's pretty cool" I made a sound something to the affect of "mmph" as the guy was walking away I looked at him to realize it was Steven King (I live in his hometown). Yeah. Guy makes 22 million a year in book sales. I said...mmph. I'm a bright one.

[Fez]

Originally posted by A1CPete

Then, once I was at a pharmacy taking a note or something on my handspring visor edge, and someone looked over my shoulder at it and said "oh that's pretty cool" I made a sound something to the affect of "mmph" as the guy was walking away I looked at him to realize it was Steven King (I live in his hometown). Yeah. Guy makes 22 million a year in book sales. I said...mmph. I'm a bright one.

Best Palm Story Ever.

[I Think Im Dumb]

HA:D thats good!

[I Think Im Dumb]

Awhile back me and my friend where staying after school getting palm games. This is when we had our first palms and we were excited, (I had a Vx, He had a IIIxe) He put some games on and handed it to me to take a look I walked over to a table and looked at the games. When I was done I was going to put in the hotsync cradle when I DROPED IT! He looked at me and looked at the palm I picked it up only to find the screen was completly smased. I said I would replace it and that I felt really bad:( He said dont worry about it and he left

The next day he came to school with a brand new TJ25!:eek:

:mad: I was so Jelious :mad:

[strider_mt2k]

My first real PDA was a PalmPilotPro.

It was offered to me to fix when the screen wouldn't work properly. The ribbon cable had been worked from it's slot and had to be reinserted.

Great piece at a great price. ;)

[marukosu]

You kids, with your fancy-shmancy gizmo-mabobs! :D

My first PDA was a piece of string I used to tie around my finger when I wanted to remember something. Of course, back then, PDA stood for "Personal Digit Assistant."

My friends were so jealous when I upgraded to a blue rubber band! You could play more games with that, you see. ;)

[I Think Im Dumb]

Ha:D

[strider_mt2k]

Originally posted by marukosu
You kids, with your fancy-shmancy gizmo-mabobs! :D

My first PDA was a piece of string I used to tie around my finger when I wanted to remember something. Of course, back then, PDA stood for "Personal Digit Assistant."

My friends were so jealous when I upgraded to a blue rubber band! You could play more games with that, you see. ;)


Wow, was that the Zire model?

(I bet the specs were better.)

[ebook junky]

Originally posted by A1CPete
Years and years ago, my girlfriend at the time called me at work from school in tears because she broke the screen to the Palm IIIe I had bought her. I didn't think it was really that big a deal (it was at the time when they were on closeout at staples for like $120), she then proceeded to break the screen on the new on too. About a year later we broke up.

Then, once I was at a pharmacy taking a note or something on my handspring visor edge, and someone looked over my shoulder at it and said "oh that's pretty cool" I made a sound something to the affect of "mmph" as the guy was walking away I looked at him to realize it was Steven King (I live in his hometown). Yeah. Guy makes 22 million a year in book sales. I said...mmph. I'm a bright one.

He is one of the first authors to believe in the ebook. One of his books even came out in ebook before it came out in print. He must have one by now. Hey, maybe you are the one who inspired him to check them out.

[NJL!2016]

One time, my old Palm m100 went through the washing machine. And that was the end of my m100.

[I Think Im Dumb]

Ouch:O

[dotelpenguin]

Well back when I was a youngen (hehe) I had the first palm. the original 512K memory unit. yes I did say 512k. This actually was the 3rd generation palm. First one had 128k, second 512k, third had 512k AND a indiglow backlight. this was about 1992/3ish I think. I wsa in hs. I built a portible 2400baud modem (alot of you will have no idea what that is) about the size of a pack of cigaretts. Used to dial chat bbs's and play text rpg's, but clipping the little modem into the pbx phone systems at my school. Had a termianl program that let me access all that stuff while sitting in my classes. And the cool thing was it was so advanced at the time, teachers had no clue what I was doing. I just told them I was taking notes, on it.

Of course I'm also the same guy that wired an IDE flash drive up to My TI-85, calculator and added dsp (sound card) to it. so I could play tetris with sound on it.


Electronic geek + Boring class + farming town = mutated electronics in class

[ClieBen]

Since most of us are telling tales of how one of our PDAs has entered the after-life, I'll share one of mine:

I had purchased a PalmIIIxe to keep track of my school & work schedule along with all the other PIM functions one would normally use and I even bought a 33.6kbps modem expansion kit which I used with my existing Earthlink dialup service (those were the days:eek: ). I had all the latest software for it including AvantGo and MultiMail to grab my content on the go. I was a happy camper.

Then, one day after a very long & hard week I came home from school to some even worse news involving my mom and literally came to my wits end ("the straw that broke the camel's back"). I threw my backpack across the room slamming it into the wall. CRAACKK (moment of silence) Guess what was in the backpack :)

Still in a bit of a rage I opened the backpack starting to tear up and sure enough there she was staring back at me, cracked glass and all. There went $300.

Fast Forward to today, I've learned my lesson. :) If I get angry and want to throw something, I'll use one of my stores of AOL CD's and diskettes to flush out that inner toil.

To be continued...

[Astrogiblet]

oh yes, AOL cd's make for good uses. you can use them as beer coasters, frisbee's, knives (if you break em), and lots more

[A1CPete]

lol. When people start making knives out of AOL cd's is when I begin to think there's a violence problem in America.

[Unregistered]

I like my industrectable Vx. I did everything to that. I have droped it down two stories (straight, not on stairs). Then, over the summer, someone spilled juice in it, and it sat for 2 months, soaking. While washing it off, I accidently droped it into the sink, completely underwater for a few minutes. Undamaged. I had to give it up when the glue came apart, and the buttons kept falling out and getting lost. Now my mom has it...