Palm, Windows CE and REX5000 Software — The PDA Era
The late 1990s and early 2000s saw the rise of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) — pocket-sized devices that brought computing capability to the palm of the hand before smartphones made them obsolete. Three distinct platforms are represented in this collection: the Palm platform (3Com’s Palm Pilot and its successors), Microsoft’s Windows CE handheld devices (including Nokia’s brief venture into Windows-powered PDAs), and the REX5000 — a credit card-sized organiser that slotted into a laptop’s PC Card slot.
Palm’s operating system, originally developed by Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, was celebrated for its elegant simplicity and the Graffiti handwriting recognition system that allowed fast text entry with a stylus. The Palm Pilot became the best-selling PDA of the late 1990s, with a thriving ecosystem of third-party applications distributed on CD-ROM or downloadable via the emerging internet. Windows CE devices offered more familiar Microsoft software but at the cost of greater complexity, while the REX represented an extreme of miniaturisation — essentially a read-only organiser in PC Card form.
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Bonus Pack (palm) L CD
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HandMail (palm) L CD
HandPhone (palm) CIB CD
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Intellisync For Palm (palm) CIB CD
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MS Win CD 2.1 (WinCE) CIB CD
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Palm Desktop Organizer (palm) L CD
Palm Organizer (palm) LM CD
Palm Pilot Software (palm) CIB CD
PalmPilot Software (palm) CIB CD
Psiwin (psion) CIB D
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Sharp HC-4000 (WinCE) CIB CD
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TrueSync (Rex5000) CIB CD