U. S. Robotics Palm Pilot 5000
date: label: date made
content: 1996
name: label: maker
content: U.S. Robotics
notes: label: Description
content: U. S. Robotics' subsidiary company Palm, Inc. produced this Pilot 5000 personal digital assistant (PDA) in 1996. With a purchase price of $369, the Pilot 5000 had a Motorola processor that operated at 16 megahertz and 512 kilobytes of memory. A touch screen accepted input via a stylus pen. Unlike the Apple Newton released a few years earlier, the Pilot’s system of “graffiti” shorthand provided users with an effective text input system. The back of this Pilot shows the characters that can be “drawn” by the “graffiti” system. Default applications for the Pilot included an address book, calculator, date book, memo pad, and to-do lists that could be synchronized with a personal computer via a special cradle connected to a serial port.
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Computers & Business Machines
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Daniel Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0095.024
label: accession number
content: 2003.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0095.024
objectType: label: Object Name
content: personal digital assistant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)