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by awayand 5043 days ago
lets not forget the palm. combined with intellisync it was truly the best thing on earth.
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Along with a Stowaway folding keyboard:

http://danbricklin.com/log/stowaway.htm

People used to be amazed when I showed them how much real work you could get done with a Handspring Visor and a Stowaway keyboard. It kind of amazes me that today we have portable devices that are a thousand times more powerful than the old PalmOS devices, but only feel really useful for consuming media, not creating it. Shows you the importance of input devices in the creative process, I guess.