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Palms were offline devices that only synced with your computer when put on a docking station. (fedia.io)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] jordanlund 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The III had an IR sync as well, but you had to initiate it and it was line of sight with the IR port on your computer.

I had it working with my Rev. B iMac.

Man, I miss my Palm III. Left it in a jacket pocket too close to a wall heater. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If you pointed two of them at each other, you could play multiplayer games over IR. It was pretty janky.