Word: palmpilot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Attention, e-commerce shoppers: Your days of being tied to the PC for your product needs may soon be over. In the near future, currently being envisaged by engineers, you'll go shopping via PalmPilot, via TV with cable-modem hookup, via game machine, via intelligent refrigerator--via any means, it seems, other than a good old-fashioned desktop and keyboard...
...period (Haha! See? Now why can't I do that with I-bankers?). Later I realized the truth: I was afraid. I was afraid of the enraged horde of budding consultants that would inevitably knock down my door, shouting invectives and threatening to stab me with their PalmPilot Styluses. I was afraid that a mob of investment bankers would conspire to give me brain cancer by surrounding me and calling each other with their cell phones. The truth of the matter was that I didn't want to deal with anyone who might be seriously offended by jokes at their...
...around in a Suburban, not the vice-presidential limousine. Gone were the crisp navy suits, replaced by khaki pants hemmed short enough to display at least 6 in. of his shiny cowboy boots. At his belt he had clipped the proud emblem of the techno-geek: a PalmPilot...
...digital assistant, I'd wait. I told Benenson what I can't tell you, since I'm bound by one of those stupid nondisclosure agreements. O.K., I can tell you this much: very soon, Handspring, a Palo Alto, Calif., company founded by the folks who built the original, brilliant PalmPilot, will be launching its own PDA. And if it's as good as it looks in demos, I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy anything else...
...figured that if I spent a lot of time with the new PalmVII, the first wireless organizer to evolve from the blockbuster PalmPilot, my hard-nosed journalist's cynicism would quickly nuzzle aside my techno-infatuation. But after squiring the VII around for a few weeks, I'm more in love than ever. For years the notion of an easy-to-use device that connects man to Net--from anywhere--has been the stuff of geek dreams. Now, at long last, vaporware has been made silicon. On my VII, I've received e-mail from my wife while riding under...