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I assume those Palm thingies had like a tablet type screen? They were before tablets though, right?
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Once there was a product war . . .
The products lined up on the sides of:
PDA (Personal Data Assistant) - sort of a palm-top computer with a purpose.
Dumb cell 'phones - the sort that could hardly do anything other than make a telephone call.
The PDA manufacturers developed models that could make telephone calls ...
The Cell 'phone manufacturers developed models that could also perform typical "PDA tasks".
And the product war was on.
The (smart) cell 'phone crowd won that one.
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And nearly unnoticed, a few years ago, one of the developer corner members made an add-in for the touchscreen Kindles that added most PDA features to a Kindle.
She is gone now, left to form her own software company.
But the add-in is still posted and (mostly) still works.