Palm (PDA)

Palm Pilot is the name of the first personal digital assistant of the company Palm from the year 1996.

Due to a trademark dispute with the company from 1997 Pilot Pen the available second generation was called the Palm Pilot. As of 1998, the equipment carried only the name Palm followed by a Roman numeral, such as Palm III. The wide dissemination of Palm Pilots at the beginning of the PDA era ( Palm had until the end of 1996 350,000 units sold) had led to a Palm Pilot became a synonym for PDA.

The Palm Pilot had no keyboard, but was only equipped with a stylus. When the processor Motorola Dragonball came to use and as an operating system developed specifically for the Palm OS pilot was used.

The pilot, there were initially in the two variants Palm Pilot 1000 (128 kB RAM) and Palm Pilot 5000 (512 kB RAM). As of 1997, there were the two models PalmPilot Personal and PalmPilot Professional. Also since 1997, was manufactured by IBM Palm Pilots license and marketed under the name WorkPad.