Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Monroe, Michigan, USA
Posts: 244

I got my start in PDAs with "one-generation-behind" Palm devices; when the PalmPilot Personal hit the market, the price on the old Pilot 1000 dropped below the $200 mark so I bought one. Cool little device, but 128K of RAM! Got memory upgrades. Busted the screen showing it off to a salesman. Palm III had already made its debut, so I bought a PalmPilot Personal for $179 and swapped memory boards with the 1000. Used it for quite a while.

The Visor Deluxe is the first PDA I ever bought "new." Compared to the Palm Personal, it is stupendous. It's faster, smaller, smarter, has a much better display...yes, it eats batteries much faster (3-4 weeks compared to 6-8 weeks for the Personal w/2MB card), but for the benefits, I'll cough up extra for AAA's. I have the 8MB Springboard, giving the whole deal 16MB...cripes, my first computer was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A with 16K of RAM, no built-in programs (we had the add-on cassette-tape drive), no display, clock speed probably measured in kilohertz!

Yeah, I'd love a Visor Edge, if it had a regulation-size Springboard slot (I'm not giving up my 8MB of power-failure-safe Flash memory, and that sled thing really kills the design) and AAA-cell power (where can you not find AAA cells?).

The only things I would wish for as a very happy VDx owner would be a nice metal replacement casing (not for $200, though!) and a full-size (not M100-size) plastic digitizer so my screen would never break. Then again, when the base Visor price goes under $100 (and it probably will, someday), I'll buy one of those for spare parts!

>I even convinced my 60+ parents to use the Visor.< You've got a lot of parents, man.... (hee hee)

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