Object Details
- U.S. Robotics
- Description
- U. S. Robotics' subsidiary company Palm, Inc. produced this Pilot 5000 personal digital assistant (PDA) in 1996. With a purchase price of $369, the Pilot 5000 had a Motorola processor that operated at 16 megahertz and 512 kilobytes of memory. A touch screen accepted input via a stylus pen. Unlike the Apple Newton released a few years earlier, the Pilot’s system of “graffiti” shorthand provided users with an effective text input system. The back of this Pilot shows the characters that can be “drawn” by the “graffiti” system. Default applications for the Pilot included an address book, calculator, date book, memo pad, and to-do lists that could be synchronized with a personal computer via a special cradle connected to a serial port.
- Credit Line
- from Daniel Henderson
- 1996
- ID Number
- 2003.0095.024
- accession number
- 2003.0095
- catalog number
- 2003.0095.024
- Object Name
- personal digital assistant
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- American Enterprise
- Computers & Business Machines
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1191267
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-59f4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
