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I went $300 into debt to my parents when I was 9 years old for a Handspring Visor Deluxe. It had 8MB of RAM, a 16-ish MHz DragonBall processor, and ran Palm OS
by alexjplant 5y ago
I went $300 into debt to my parents when I was 9 years old for a Handspring Visor Deluxe. It had 8MB of RAM, a 16-ish MHz DragonBall processor, and ran Palm OS 3.1H3. I vaguely recall the Handspring version (H3) of the OS having a few additional goodies like a world clock and better notes app. A year or two layer my buddy Will bought a Palm Vx at a yard sale and I beamed him the Space Trader PDB because it was my favorite game.
Good times. I remember reading about the Springboard modem modules that were available and thinking how cool it would be to have the internet in your pocket and chat with friends on the go... if only I knew :-P
- discardedrefuse 5y agoSomeone had previously posted this short documentary about Handspring. You might enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_Vh9h3Ohw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_Vh9h3Ohw
- space_ghost 5y agoThanks for posting that, I really enjoyed watching it. I had a Treo 650 in the 2000s and loved it, despite its flaws.
- rvanlaar 5y agoI really enjoyed mine as well. Sometimes it would just drain the battery, and gone was all my data. As a young adult, all my appointments would be gone and I was left wondering if I was forgetting an appointment.
- tralarpa 5y agoI just discovered that the original source code of Space Trader as well as Java and C# ports are available on github.
- anthk 5y agoAnd for Android, you have it on FDroid.
- seanc 5y agoI bought an MP3 Springboard module. Friend of mine asked "Where is the 'stop' button on that thing?" "There isn't one. There's nothing to stop."