HowTo: Using the Palm PDA in 2023

Dmitrii Eliuseev
Geek Culture
Published in
11 min readJun 9, 2021

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My first PDA was Palm m105, I used it in 2001. 20 years later I decided to check, how the last generation of Palm OS devices was looking and to check if it’s possible to use Palm OS nowadays.

Palm m105 was a nice device for its time, it had a grayscale screen with a “stunning” 160x160px resolution and a 16 MHz Motorola CPU. Compared to it, Palm TX looks much better — it was released 4 years later, and it has a 312 MHz CPU, 320x480 TFT screen, USB, WiFi, and Bluetooth support. It looks much more promising, and when I saw Palm TX on eBay in a brand-new condition, I decided…

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Dmitrii Eliuseev
Geek Culture

Python/IoT developer and data engineer, data science and electronics enthusiast