Last Tuesday my old Palm Pilot sync'd up after 15 years on the first try

I dusted off my Palm IIIxe from a drawer and figured the battery would be dead or the screen would be shot. Charged it overnight and it booted up like nothing happened lmao. Found the old serial cradle and Windows XP laptop in the garage too. After installing Palm Desktop 4.1 from a CD that still worked, it sync'd my 2008 contacts and calendar in under 2 minutes. Has anyone else had a vintage PDA just fire up and work perfectly after a decade or more?

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anderson.spencer8d ago

Make sure you backup that old data before the Palm Desktop CD gets scratched again" - yeah, that's a really good point, I've lost a few old drives to scratches myself. Man, it's such a good feeling when something from that era just works, like a little victory against planned obsolescence. Hope you get those contacts and calendar saved somewhere safe in multiple places.

abby_martin288d ago

Make sure you backup that old data before the Palm Desktop CD gets scratched again.

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