Palm V Personal Digital Assistant
date: label: Date made
content: 1990s
label: date made
content: ca 1999
name: label: maker
content: Palm, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The Sunnydale, California, firm of Palm, Inc., founded in 1992, first sold software for personal digital assistants and then the devices themselves., including several versions of the Palm. The company quickly was acquired by a series of other firms. By 1999, when the Palm V was introduced, Palm was a subsidy of 3Com - the following year, it would be independent once again After various gyrations, the firm was bought out by HP in 2010.
label: Description
content: This handheld Palm V has an aluminum case and a gray-scale display. Unlike previous versions of the Palm, it had a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The PDA includes a detachable cover, a stylus, and a power cord with adaptor and cradle. It could be used as an address book, a calendar, a memo pad, and a calculator. Sending email, writing lists, and playing games were also possible.
label: Description
content: Both the front of the cover and the front and back of the pda are marked: 3Com. The front of the pda is also marked: Palm V.
label: Description
content: As was characteristic of Palm pdas, the Palm V used a "Graffiti Alphabet" to enter text This was a version of the regular typewriter alphabet in which cross-marks were eliminated in letters like A, F, It made it possible to enter text with a stylus without breaking the motion. The characters of this alphabet and of numbers in this form are entered on a chart printed on a sticker inside the cover, along with punctuation marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0011.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0011.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Personal Digital Assistant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 3/16 in; 11.43 cm x 7.874 cm x .508 cm