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by swiley 1871 days ago
This sounds exactly like an older palm pilot.

They used ram for persistent storage because the battery life was so long (due to a very slow dragon ball CPU and those dot-matrix displays.)

The palm III was probably one of the best hand-held computers ever made, if there were a way to put a modern modem in it to get texts I would probably use that instead of my phone.

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I actually had a pager add-on PCB in my Palm Pilot. Worked great.