History of Palm OS
Overview of PDA's equipped with Palm OS from the beginnings to today. 1996 (Quarter 2): Palm Pilot 1000 The first handheld with Palm OS was presented by the manufacturer US Robotics in the beginning of 1996. The department "Palm Computing" was transferred to 3Com in June 1997 and became independent in March 2000. In Germany this model was not available. 1996 (Quarter 2): Palm Pilot 5000 In contrast to the Pilot 1000 this model had 512 KB RAM. The manufacturer was US Robotics with its Palm Computing division. 1997 (Quarter 1): Palm Pilot Personal Beside the new operating system Palm OS 2 the Pilot Personal also features a backlight. 1997 (Quarter 1): Palm Pilot Professional In comparison to the Pilot Personal the Pilot Professional comes with TCP/IP support, mailfunktion and more memory (1 MB RAM). 1997 (Quarter 3): IBM Workpad (10u) IBM starts selling palms under its own label. This model is a clone of the Palm Pilot Professional. The only diff...
