Glad it was interesting to someone besides me, curtw!
Somewhere I still have my original Pilot 5000, shattered screen and all (I broke it while on a business trip to South Portland Maine in March of '98, about 20 minutes before I upgraded to a PalmPilot Professional). I plan to keep it for posterity, as long as I can keep finding good places to hide "posterity's" things from the wife, that is.