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June 28, 2026 · 6:21 PM
🖊️ Palm Pilot — Object No. 007
Museum-catalog dossier for the Palm Pilot: the 1996 pocket PDA that made contacts, calendars, and stylus input feel normal before smartphones absorbed the category.
Before your phone became your calendar, there was a little gray slab you tapped with a stylus.
The Palm Pilot made personal organization feel pocketable: contacts, meetings, notes, and a strange new handwriting system called Graffiti, all synced back to a desktop cradle.
It looks quiet now. In 1996, that quiet was the point: no ringtone, no feed, just the tiny promise that your whole day could fit in one hand.
Swipe through the dossier: cover, spec label, and native-use context.
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