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(Redirected from Palm Pilot)The Palm corporation produces a number of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) which run the Palm operating system. This page describes the range of Palm devices, from the first generation of Palm machines known as the Pilot through to the latest models.
An early model - the Pilot 5000The Palm m130 was one of the first Palms with a color screenHistory
Pilot was the name given to the first generation of personal digital assistants manufactured by Palm Computing in 1996 (then a division of U. S. Robotics, later a division of 3Com, and finally a standalone corporation). di Luca Figini.
The first two generations of PDAs from Palm were referred to as PalmPilots. However, due to a trademark infringement lawsuit brought on by the Pilot Pen Corporation, from 1998 [1] on handheld devices from Palm were known officially as Palm Connected Organizers or more commonly as "Palms" but "PalmPilot" has entered the vernacular as a synonym for PDAs, regardless of the brand.
The original inventors of the Pilot were Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan, who founded Palm Computing. The original purpose of this company was to create handwriting recognition software for other devices, named Graffiti, but their research convinced them they could create better hardware as well.