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This brings back memories. One--how much I liked my TX. (One of the first little devises you could get on the internet with. I was a Goodguy's Liquidation sal

This brings back memories. One--how much I liked my TX. (One of the first little devises you could get on the internet with. I was a Goodguy's Liquidation sale. They had 500 Halo 2 Collector's editions for $5.00/piece. I needed the price on ebay. Everyone had a dumb phone. I went to a closed public library, and logged on with no password. I saw a high of 50 bucks. Went back and bought them all. I thought I had a upper hand in pricing stuff at auctions, etc. A year later, and it seemed like everyone had a smart phone. two--dissapointment over how this company was mismanaged to the ground.

1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
"This brings back memories." Yeah I can remember seeing this yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-09-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-09-09
mysterydip 5y ago
> two--dissapointment over how this company was mismanaged to the ground. pardon the pun, but they had the mobile market in the palm of their hand. They could have exploded as a smartphone provider had they evolved. Instead they faded to nothing. So frustrating.
- numpad0 5y ago
  They did a superb job with Palm Pre/webOS, they did. Only they then gathered people to watch it live a painful death suffocating in Sprint exclusivity. It was like having delivered regular updates about a random person with terminal cancer. To this day I still don't understand why the public had to watch graphic death scenes of Palm and RIM each going down.
  - vlovich123 5y ago
    My observation was that sprint hampered our growth (maybe) but chasing Verizon killed us. It was a terribly negotiated deal. Verizon kept upping the purchase order and forcing us to have the inventory on hand only for the demand to never materialize. This caused the liquidity crunch and eventual sale to HP. At least, that’s my understanding of the story but I was a low IC new grad at that point.
pomian 5y ago
The palm hand writing system was amazing. Instead of trying to teach the computer to recognize everyone's handwriting, people - the users, adapted by learning a few very simple rules, to write notes. It took about 3 minutes to learn. After 5 minutes of use, you could take down written notes, almost as fast as on paper - which were digitised. You could do it without looking at the screen. (20 years later old Palm users still have a few weird handwriting quirks.)
- puetzk 5y ago
  Just FYI, it lives on, and there's an android keyboard app that implements it! mostly useful if you have a device with stylus, of course: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.access_company.graffiti_pro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.access_com...
  - mdp2021 5y ago
    > mostly useful if you have a device with stylus I have been using graffiti since I use Android, and I use it with fingers more frequently than with a stylus: no problem. You do not need the stylus. (But I use a modified application with the option to set the graffiti area height - that may be an enabler on some systems.)
  - 5555624 5y ago
    You don't need a stylus. I've been using this app since I got a smart phone and only have a stylus if I am sitting at my desk. It's much quicker -- for me -- than the keyboard. With Android 11, I've noticed that sometimes it "locks" up and I need to switch to the Samsung keyboard for a couple of characters and then switch back. (This could be a Samsung issue, as I never had a problem with my Sony phones.)
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
  My AST Gridpad (aka Tandy Zoomer) had Graffiti. To this day I still have the strokes in muscle memory.
oneseven 5y ago
> this company was mismanaged to the ground. You've said that twice on this thread. I honestly don't remember; is there a story somewhere? Wasn't there another company (Treo) also building hardware with Palm OS?
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 5y ago
  >Wasn't there another company (Treo) also building hardware with Palm OS? Handspring (later bought by Palm) and Sony were the most notable third-party vendors, although there were many others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palm_OS_devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palm_OS_devices
bluedino 5y ago
I had a Palm Treo that I used to use for looking up things at yard sales on eBay, hoping to find things to flip for huge gains. Damn thing only lasted for about two hours of eBay use so I couldn't even make it through a full morning of garage sales.
mattl 5y ago
Internet or the web?

1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago

"This brings back memories." Yeah I can remember seeing this yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-09-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-09-09

mysterydip 5y ago

> two--dissapointment over how this company was mismanaged to the ground. pardon the pun, but they had the mobile market in the palm of their hand. They could have exploded as a smartphone provider had they evolved. Instead they faded to nothing. So frustrating.

numpad0 5y ago
They did a superb job with Palm Pre/webOS, they did. Only they then gathered people to watch it live a painful death suffocating in Sprint exclusivity. It was like having delivered regular updates about a random person with terminal cancer. To this day I still don't understand why the public had to watch graphic death scenes of Palm and RIM each going down.
- vlovich123 5y ago
  My observation was that sprint hampered our growth (maybe) but chasing Verizon killed us. It was a terribly negotiated deal. Verizon kept upping the purchase order and forcing us to have the inventory on hand only for the demand to never materialize. This caused the liquidity crunch and eventual sale to HP. At least, that’s my understanding of the story but I was a low IC new grad at that point.

pomian 5y ago

The palm hand writing system was amazing. Instead of trying to teach the computer to recognize everyone's handwriting, people - the users, adapted by learning a few very simple rules, to write notes. It took about 3 minutes to learn. After 5 minutes of use, you could take down written notes, almost as fast as on paper - which were digitised. You could do it without looking at the screen. (20 years later old Palm users still have a few weird handwriting quirks.)

puetzk 5y ago
Just FYI, it lives on, and there's an android keyboard app that implements it! mostly useful if you have a device with stylus, of course: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.access_company.graffiti_pro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.access_com...
- mdp2021 5y ago
  > mostly useful if you have a device with stylus I have been using graffiti since I use Android, and I use it with fingers more frequently than with a stylus: no problem. You do not need the stylus. (But I use a modified application with the option to set the graffiti area height - that may be an enabler on some systems.)
- 5555624 5y ago
  You don't need a stylus. I've been using this app since I got a smart phone and only have a stylus if I am sitting at my desk. It's much quicker -- for me -- than the keyboard. With Android 11, I've noticed that sometimes it "locks" up and I need to switch to the Samsung keyboard for a couple of characters and then switch back. (This could be a Samsung issue, as I never had a problem with my Sony phones.)
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
My AST Gridpad (aka Tandy Zoomer) had Graffiti. To this day I still have the strokes in muscle memory.

oneseven 5y ago

> this company was mismanaged to the ground. You've said that twice on this thread. I honestly don't remember; is there a story somewhere? Wasn't there another company (Treo) also building hardware with Palm OS?

xeeeeeeeeeeenu 5y ago
>Wasn't there another company (Treo) also building hardware with Palm OS? Handspring (later bought by Palm) and Sony were the most notable third-party vendors, although there were many others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palm_OS_devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palm_OS_devices

bluedino 5y ago

I had a Palm Treo that I used to use for looking up things at yard sales on eBay, hoping to find things to flip for huge gains. Damn thing only lasted for about two hours of eBay use so I couldn't even make it through a full morning of garage sales.

mattl 5y ago

Internet or the web?