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My original Palm IIIx


We’ve been doing some cleaning and purging here at Chez Lefebvre and stumbled across a relic.

While cleaning, my wife was going through a box of what she thought contained old folders and notebooks, but hidden inside an old Franklin Covey Planner (also a relic and popular in the 90s) was my original Palm IIIx! I popped in new AAA batteries and it turned back on to its familiar stylus calibration screen. The PalmDB web site has a page describing how to connect a Palm to a PC, but without a cable, I was unable to try any of it:

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