Handspring Visor Deluxe Personal Digital Assistant
date: label: Date made
content: c 2000
name: label: maker
content: Handspring
notes: label: Description
content: The Visor "handheld computer," sold by Handspring, Inc., offered users an electronic address book, a date book, a to do list, a memo pad,and an electronic calculator, as well as the possibility of synchronizing data with a computer. The battery-operated device fit into a black leather case (one mark of its being the Deluxe form of the instrument. It also could be charged using a cradle that plugged into a wall socket. This example of the instrument comes in its original box with quick reference guide, an instructional cd that could be read using a computer, and a catalog of add-ons.
label: Description
content: The device is marked in the battery section: PATENTS PENDING (/) ASSEMBLED IN MALAYSIA". It is in its original case and appears not to have been used.
label: Description
content: Founded in 1998 by discontented employees of Palm, Inc., Handspring, Inc., of Mountain View, California, existed as an independent firm until 2003. The Visor and Visor Deluxe were among its earliest products.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Malaysia
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.07
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.07
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Personal Digital Assistant Accessory
label: Object Name
content: personal digital assistant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (not defined material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 3 in x 1 in; 13.335 cm x 7.62 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: container: 8 1/4 in x 10 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 20.955 cm x 27.305 cm x 8.89 cm