Thanks for the trip down memory lane! My best friend and I bought a pair of these the summer before our senior year of high school 1997-98. Memory is hazy, but I think they were around $250 USD (65 hours of work at my min wage fast food job). I used it to do a few writing assignments, and I remember us transferring games and files back and forth in school using the built-in IR blasters. I also bought a PCMCIA 28.8k modem, and could surf the internet on it (given access to an analog phone line). It had a road atlas as well, no GPS obviously, but it was still pretty cool as a new driver. Certainly a waste of money given the limitations of the device, but I still remember how amazing it felt at the time to have a computer small enough to fit in a pocket. I ended up giving it to a girlfriend who didn't have a home computer, and she dumped me a few weeks later. :) Such is life.
Cool unit. It's amazing they run on double-A batteries. And apparently they're still prohibitively expensive 25 years on. No chance that I could get one... the interface reminds me quite a bit of Windows 3.1 which I used back in school.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! My best friend and I bought a pair of these the summer before our senior year of high school 1997-98. Memory is hazy, but I think they were around $250 USD (65 hours of work at my min wage fast food job). I used it to do a few writing assignments, and I remember us transferring games and files back and forth in school using the built-in IR blasters. I also bought a PCMCIA 28.8k modem, and could surf the internet on it (given access to an analog phone line). It had a road atlas as well, no GPS obviously, but it was still pretty cool as a new driver. Certainly a waste of money given the limitations of the device, but I still remember how amazing it felt at the time to have a computer small enough to fit in a pocket. I ended up giving it to a girlfriend who didn't have a home computer, and she dumped me a few weeks later. :) Such is life.
Yeah. I just wanted a pocket computer also at that time. It was great.
Cool unit. It's amazing they run on double-A batteries. And apparently they're still prohibitively expensive 25 years on. No chance that I could get one... the interface reminds me quite a bit of Windows 3.1 which I used back in school.
Keep an eye on ebay I think is the way to get one. Its a great piece of kit.