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I am obligated to point out that the plastic phone dialers that fit on the eraser end of a pencil were functionally superior to a silver Tiffany’s one.
But that’s not the point, of course.
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it probably is, but without Audrey, i mean, i just can’t be bothered.
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Honestly, Shirley MacLaine would have been better casting.
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Did somebody say Tiffany?
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Speaking of handhelds, it was much later, but I got one of these beasts dirt cheap on a closeout sale:
It was designed so that you could throw it down a metal staircase into a puddle on the pavement and it’d still work just fine. Thing was, Windows CE wasn’t compatible with anything. And with that keyboard and screen, it was a beast to type and program on. Ended up trying to sell it on Ebay and then just giving it to someone.
Apparently it now sells for $2000. I missed out on that!
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That’s a neat little time capsule there. Windows CE lasted a long really time and was popular in some industrial, embedded, and enterprise contexts. I had a few WinCE smartphones and palmtop devices and they were pretty great - for their time. I also had some weird form factor ones for certain projects and experiments and they kind of sucked.
Fun fact: the Sega Dreamcast supported WinCE APIs (although it never actually ran the OS - and basically nothing used it).
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There’s a reason they named it “wince”
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Found these whilst moving some stuff around in the basement yesterday. The Handspring one is original, but I bought the apple stickers off of eBay 20 or so years ago.
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Speaking of Handspring…
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It looks like a landscape-oriented Game Boy.
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i have some of those Apple stickers, too, and i used to have a Handspring back then. loved that thing, but omg things are so much easier now.
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Wow, I remember the Handspring. I think Mrs. Ficus even a Visor. It was such a weird diversion in the short-lived and thankfully dead PDA era — “here’s a Palm Pilot clone … with USB!” (when that was a novel thing) and an expansion slot (that almost nothing used). Despite Handspring being started by some Palm defectors unhappy with the Palm Pilot, Handspring up just being eventually absorbed into Palm.
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Well, isn’t it true that one can’t perform a handspring without a palm?
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I always desired a Trēo.
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I had a visor, and later a Treo 650. I wanted the Visorphone add on, but could never justify the price.
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I need a small simple notebook.
I have an awful record of mangling notebooks by opening them, or trying to write in them, or occasionally spilling water in them.
I also need to be able to remove pages and scan them.
I figure a fancy notebook is a bad idea, unless I can replace the pages as they get mangled. I hate spiral notebooks, because just opening them is enough to mangle them, and writing in them can too, and tearing out pages leaves fringes which can mess with scanning them. So a perfect, or tape, or stable-bound notebook, with perforations to remove pages, small enough to carry everywhere, thin enough that it’s not too much of a waste when it gets mangled, would be handy. Especially if it can fit in a removable hard cover, to help with writing.
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