Some of the original Palm devices. I had a Palm IV or V and later a Palm Zire. Bought the former from Malaysia and the latter on a trip to the US. Both were gre

Some of the original Palm devices. I had a Palm IV or V and later a Palm Zire. Bought the former from Malaysia and the latter on a trip to the US. Both were great devices, considering both hardware and software. Instant booting back into the app you were last using after a shutdown, good bundled set of productivity / PIM apps, many third-party apps (I even tried Pippy, a port of Python for my Palm IV/V, but while it worked some, sadly, it crashed a lot), great-looking bright colorful screen (in the case of the Zire; the IV/V was black and white), light weight, the Graffiti handwriting recognition system, etc. One not so good thing was that net connectivity was via separate add-ons like small modems. This was before wireless Internet access became ubiquitous. Unfortunately, as often happens, later changes of biz and tech direction led to changes in products and to the company later closing or being sold, don't remember which. There was also a similar product company started later, called Handspring, IIRC by one or more of the founders of Palm. They too may have had a good product, one might have been called the Treo. Didn't get to try it. Lost track of what happened in that product field after that. Later there was Palm OS, which I think HP bought and then sold off, the usual corporate buy-keep-sell sort of story that happens a lot.