FS: Palm Pilot Personal & Tungsten E2

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Palm Pilot Personal & Tungsten E2 plus accessories - all work and shown operating
Comes with bottle cap games SD.
Play the built in games or add more.

$30 plus shipping
 

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Oh man...that brings back very fond memories! My first job out of college I bought and used a Palm Pilot Personal...amazed how extendable and versatile it was.

Upgraded to a Palm Vx (what a beautifully built unit) and used that for several years before the PDA era died out.
Loved using my Palms...you could load it with games, ebooks, even basic email and web browsing. There was a app called "AvantGo" that you could sort of 'pre-load' all kinds of web content and access it while you were on the go or waiting somewhere. Kind of a pre-smart phone way of accessing the internet

GLWS!
 
Thats cool!! I didnt start with Palm OS. I started with Windows Mobile, which I absolutely loved. Very powerful and capable. I remember how amazing it was to me in 2007. It really hit me when I was Sitting on a curb in the parking lot of my mechanic waiiting for my car's new tires to be mounted. I was on my XV6700 sitting there listening to mp3s on my sd card, chatting on AIM, and playing an NES emulator at the same time. I thought ...wow...this is a really awesome device. Look at everything now. :p
 
I used to play a game called Space Trader on my Tungsten E, that I absolutely loved.

It was one of those mostly text (with some single-image graphics) adventure games where you travel around a virtual universe, buying resources on various planets and selling them to others to build wealth, which you use to buy bigger ships and weapons, etc.

You could fight thieves you'd encounter while traveling around, or go rogue and become a vigilante who would fight the police instead of the thieves (basically becoming a bad guy). So it was one of those games you could play to completion multiple times, but take different paths each time. It was incredibly well done, and I spent countless hours on it.

The game involved a lot of tapping on the screen. The only problem was you had to tap in the same places repeatedly, which led to me literally wearing a hole in the upper right corner of my screen, and the digitizer eventually stopped working.

The whole PalmOS was amazing. To this day it had a better calendar than any iPhone. The graphics and overall UI were much nicer to look at. All it was missing was the phone.

I miss the days when we had choice when it came to technology, and companies were actually competing to make better products, not just capture our attention.
 
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