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Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Dec 14, 15:20 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Dec 14, 15:20 -0500
Robert- Yes, a Palm and a Palm Pilot are one and the same. The Pilot Pen Company sued the original Palm company claiming trademark dilution since Pilot could make a stylus for the Palm, which would then be a "Pilot Pilot" instead of a "Palm Pilot" etcetera. So "Palm Pilot" refers to an original model, the later ones are all "Palm"s of various models and prices. There's nothing wrong with a Palm IIIxe or other older model, ued or refurbed, although I strongly suggest getting 8MB of memory (the IIIxe not the older III, etc.) if you want to run nav applications and more toys. The newest latest ones add color and memory cards, and quickly ramp up from $100 (older used/refurbed) to $500 (high end new color, but nice). Web site? www.palm.com and the links from there. Any office supply store or computer store should have them live to look at, being the salesman some coffee and a doughnut in the slow morning hours and they'll spend the day with you.Oh yes, the Palms all have infrared built in. They can beam anything back and forth to each other, and make great universal learning remote controls as well.