Editing Palm (PDA) (section)

=== PalmPilot1000 and 5000 (1996) ===
The prototype for the first Palm Connected Organizer was called "Palm Taxi". In 1996 Palm released its first generation PDA, the [[Pilot 1000|PalmPilot 1000 and 5000]]. After the out-of-court settlement in 1998 of a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the [[Pilot Pen Corporation]], the company no longer used that name,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/palm-pilot-part-of-vernacular-despite-pilot-pens-legal-trademark-victory |title='Palm Pilot' part of vernacular, despite Pilot Pen's legal trademark victory |website=CBS MarketWatch |date=2000-03-01 |access-date=2018-07-05 |archive-date=2018-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705233202/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/palm-pilot-part-of-vernacular-despite-pilot-pens-legal-trademark-victory |url-status=dead }}</ref> instead referring to its handheld devices as Palm Connected Organizers or more commonly as "Palms".

The first Palms, the [[Pilot 1000]] and [[Pilot 5000]], had no [[infrared port]], [[backlight]], or [[flash memory]], but did have a [[serial port|serial communications port]].  Their [[RAM]] size was 128 [[Kilobyte|kB]] and 512 kB respectively, and they used version 1 of [[Palm OS]]. Later, it became possible to upgrade the Pilot 1000 or 5000's internals to up to 1 MB of internal RAM.  This was done with the purchase of an upgrade module sold by Palm, and the replacement of some internal hardware components.  Originally, it was conceived that all Palm PDAs were to be hardware-upgradable to an extent, but ultimately, this capability gave way to external memory slots and firmware-upgradable flash memory after the Palm III series.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chris |date=2007-08-27 |title=History of Palm |url=https://historyofbranding.com/palm/ |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=History of Branding |language=en-us}}</ref>