The Palm pilot became the most successful PDA (personal digitial assistant), a computer that would fit in your pocket and sync all your data, so you could access email, calendar, contacts etc on the move. With app you could install, and access to the internet you could be forgiven for thinking of it as a smart phone, but with the phone bits missing.

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00:00 - Intro 00:25 - A word from our sponsors 00:54 - Palm in the beginning 06:42 - Hot Sync 17:00 - The hardware 23:55 - Developing software for the Palm 34:39 - The PDA market 37:39 - What happened to palm 44:22 - Thanks