Palm IIIxe Personal Digital Assistant
date: label: date made
content: ca 2000
name: label: maker
content: Palm, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The Palm IIIxe Personal Digital Assistant was introduced by Palm Inc. in February 2000. It has a removable black plastic flip lid to protect the screen. The unit is approximately the size of a 3x5 index card, ½” thick, and weighs about 6 ounces.
label: Description
content: Located on the top of the unit is the infrared port, on the bottom is the RS-232 serial port door, and on the left side is the contrast control knob. The back of the unit has the stylus storage slot, reset button, and the battery compartment door.
label: Description
content: The enhanced 160x160 pixel grayscale touch sensitive screen displays the applications and stored data. The lower part of the screen has a rectangular area with shortcuts for the calculator and application list on the left side and the application menu and search function on the right. The center of this area is used to input data using either the “Graffiti” alphabet or the onscreen keyboards (alphabetic and numeric).
label: Description
content: Below the screen are seven physical buttons: power/backlight, date book, address book, up and down scroll buttons, to do list, and memo pad. These buttons (except for the scroll buttons) can be used to power on the unit.
label: Description
content: The IIIxe is powered by two AAA batteries. The top battery inserts backwards--the positive terminal on the battery contacts the battery spring; the bottom battery inserts the usual way with the negative terminal on the battery touching the spring. NiMH batteries could also be used.
label: Description
content: The unit shipped with Palm OS 3.5, 8 MB of RAM, 2 MB of ROM, and PDA software applications for address book, calculator, date book, expense, mail, memo pad, to do list, and hotsync.
label: Description
content: The infrared port is used to beam (transmit and receive) data to another Palm handheld, printer, or personal computer.
label: Description
content: The serial port is used to “hotsync” (update data) to and from a desktop computer using the docking cradle. The serial port also supported various peripherals including a camera and a portable keyboard. In order to “hotsync” data the personal computer needed a serial adapter and one of the following operating systems: Apple MacOS 8.5 or later, Microsoft Windows 95/98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or later.
label: Description
content: See 2017.3053.01-.02 for related documentation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Mexico
topic: label: Subject
content: Computers
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In memory of John Anthony Daly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0113.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0113
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0113.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: personal digital assistant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: screen: 6 cm x 8 cm; 2 3/8 in x 3 5/32 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 2 cm x 8.5 cm x 12 cm; 25/32 in x 3 11/32 in x 4 23/32 in
label: Measurements
content: cradle: 5.5 cm x 9 cm x 10 cm; 2 5/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: cable, cradle: 241 cm; 94 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 9 cm x 12 cm; 4 11/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 4 23/32 in