The History Of Tiny Computers (PDAs) - Where Did They Go?

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  @psivewri · 3 years ago · pinned

  Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed this style of video. More content on its way soon :) - Nathan

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  @TRISTRAMY · 3 years ago

  I still remember getting my 5MX, I felt like I was living in the future. It was almost entire useless, but that didn't stop me loving it.

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  @JeremyLevi · 1 year ago (edited)

  &quot;Where Did They Go?&quot; &lt;-- They weren&apos;t eclipsed by smartphones, they literally <b>became</b> the first smartphones pioneering the market. For reference see the Palm Treo, Qualcomm pdQs, Samsung SPH/SCH/SGH palmOS phones; the Motorola, HTC, later Palm Treo, and Samsung PocketPC phones; etc.

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  @BuckeyeStormsProductions · 3 years ago

  When I got my first, &quot;big boy job,&quot; my wife bought me a Handspring Visor Prism as a gift...since I needed to do adult things like have a calender, and contact book, and a paper organizer just wouldn&apos;t cut it. I played a lot of SimCity on that thing! I even got the cellular modem Springboard and remember showing off getting my emails to a friend at the bar. He was like, &quot;wow, now your work can bother you even on your day off!&quot;

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  @sihamhamda47 · 3 years ago

  And now the term &quot;personal digital assistant&quot; is transforming to just &quot;digital assistant&quot;, and now it&apos;s in a completely different form (as a built in assistant and AI chatbot in the phone and computer)<br><br>The time flies

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  @ArthasProVEVO · 3 years ago

  I wanna be honest , as a 90s kid i still love those AAA &amp; AA Rechargeable Batteries because we don&apos;t have user replaceable batteries these days , and the abundance of AAs &amp; AAAs is also a plus point

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  @wireproof · 3 years ago

  I still collect the old PalmOS and Windows Mobile devices. Always fascinated by them as a kid, I was lucky to have a Zire 21, and later as I got older was able to collect all the Tungsten T and E series phones, lots of WM5 and WM6 devices as well. My first Palm device was the Palm IIIe, and I now have the IIIc in my collection. Love your videos!! Should do more on PalmOS!!

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  @moracomole8090 · 3 years ago

  Public Display of Affection

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  @ArthurFelipedasChagasMartins · 3 years ago

  I&apos;d add the Casio Cassiopeia to this list. I had an A-11 with 4MB RAM, manufactured somewhere between 1996 and 1999, and used it up to 2009: it was a great companion to take quick notes and transfer them back to the PC through a serial cable (at least until serial ports where a thing on PCs). Great memories.

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  @atsridge · 3 years ago

  How quickly we all forgot what it was like carrying around a phone, and iPod and a PDA all separately! We knew no different, and it was peak personal technology at the time. I remember using the HP iPaq RX1950. I feel as though they must have been a common model in their time, but man was it ever useful to have one of them. Always enjoy your videos Psivewri!

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  @shawnhardgrove8517 · 3 years ago

  I remember around the year 2001, one of the local doctors where I worked had a pda with the plastic pen and he was constantly using it for phone contacts, and other uses. To him, it was a neat gadget that served its purpose at the time. I did not have one, but he used it all the time.

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  @angieandretti · 3 years ago

  Yeah I was obsessed with PDA&apos;s that looked like little laptops back then too... and ACTUAL little laptops too for that matter.

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