My First PDA – Sharp Wizard

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My first PDA was an old Sharp Wizard which carried 64k of data! It was over $300 back in the day, and was considered to be a high-end model. I could add things to my calendar and keep track of what I had to do. My calendar from 1989 is still intact even! I added memos and contact lists, since there was no such thing as an iPhone. It doesn’t have a Qwerty layout, which was confusing as heck. This was literally state-of-the-art back in the late ’80s. Can you even believe that?

I relied on this a lot back in high school and even college. I used it to track assignments. Heck, I admit it… I even used the translator in Spanish class! It did have the ability to hook up to a computer using a cable and software. However, it was a pain in the butt, and not really worth doing.

So, let’s hear it. What was your first PDA? Do you even remember? Do you still have it?

If you tell me your first was something like the iPhone, I think I’m going to cry.

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9 Comments

Justin G.

November 25th, 2009
at 10:43pm

My first real one was a Casio branded PPC. I loved the crap out of that thing, I think it had Windows CE 3.0 or something the like back in 2000 or so. MP3 players sucked ace back then and its nice little CF slot made it great for the 10 mile bike ride to work (Radio Shack at the time).

Bill Gerrard

November 25th, 2009
at 10:57pm

My first PDA…

Apple Newton MessagePad 110 (purchased in 1994 at a discount as my employee was a NewtonOS software developer)

I still have it in a box somewhere…

Marty

November 25th, 2009
at 11:42pm

Palm V – and I’ve managed to transfer my contacts all the way along. To my Sidekick, to a motorola device and eventually to my a 1st gen iPhone and to my current 3gs!

Devir Kahan

November 26th, 2009
at 5:49am

Oh gosh! My first was a Symbian Palm device that had a barcode scanner at the top… My great uncle actually worked for Symbian and “hooked me up” with that “cool” device. From that I went to an old black an white Palm to the Palm Zire 31 (I beleive) and now I got myslef an iPod Touch.

Dang we’ve come a long way…

Dennis McClune

November 26th, 2009
at 10:19am

My first at least had a qwerty KB
it was a Psion 3 (1991 or 2)
Great little machine….
had they added a phine circuit, and a color screen
it would still be state of the art…..

I miss it

Aryeh Goretsky

November 27th, 2009
at 8:47pm

Hello,

I think you meant that your Sharp Wizard had 64KB?

I’ve had a lot of PDAs over the years. Some of the ones I dimly remember are a Casio Zoomer, an HP 95LX, a Palm Pilot 1000, a Poquet PC and a Psion Series 5mx, in addition to many other Palm OS and Window CE devices.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

David Anasco

November 28th, 2009
at 6:37am

Palm Pilot Professional with a whopping 1 mb of RAM, running Palm OS 2.0, it ran on two AAA batteries, I paid around $200 for it and it still works.

matt

November 28th, 2009
at 7:17pm

i got a couple things…
you made a typo at the first line of your post:
in the video you said 64kb… you typed 64mb
My first PDA was a newer sharp wizard
it had 128 mb of data holding
it was a basic touch screen
it was almost state of the art when i got it for around $40
it died, and the batteries it uses aren’t made anymore… :(

Chris Pomfret

January 14th, 2010
at 2:48pm

My first was also a Sharp organizer. The ZQ-770PC or 0Z / Wizard as Americans like to call it :)
Cost £79 and I thought it was great.
Can’t find any of the old sites/forums I used to visit though :(

My First PDA – Sharp Wizard

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