Today I have got the last planned addition to my Palm PDA collection:
the US Robotics Pilot 5000 (there is no word "Palm" on the device).
It is the second of the Palm Pilot line (the first was the Pilot 1000
with 128 kB of RAM but I think that they were released in less or more
the same time).
My Pilot 5000 arrived with the "2 MB RAM upgrade" already installed. It
makes it much more useful (the upgrade includes not only flash for OS
upgrades but it already includes an OS 3.0 and the IR port) but also
much less authentic. The 5000 originally indicated the 512 kB of RAM and
not 2 MB...
So I swapped the cards between this device and my recently downgraded
Palm Pilot Personal (I wrote here before few weeks what I have had to
put the 512 kB card with OS 1.0 into it).
Thus now I have complete and original Pilot 5000! (and a second Pilot
Personal upgrade to 2MB with IR, yippee!)
The Pilot 5000 seems to be only slightly used: (there are almost no
scratches on the screen and the Graffiti area looks like new).
But there are traces of battery leak in the battery compartment.
Fortunately, it works anyway.
So there are two effects: not only I have an authentic Pilot of the
first generation for testing (I have little experience with OS 1.0.)
but also a range of Pilot Personals for daily use (now I have THREE of
them and TWO of them have 2MB+IR upgrade - I do not have 3 of any other
Palm model). It's funny, isn't it?
