Pilot 5000
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Today I have  got the last planned addition to  my Palm PDA collection:
the US Robotics Pilot 5000 (there is no word "Palm" on the device).

It is the second  of the Palm Pilot line (the first  was the Pilot 1000
with 128 kB of RAM but I think  that they were released in less or more
the same time).

My Pilot 5000 arrived with the "2 MB RAM upgrade" already installed. It
makes it much more useful (the  upgrade includes not only flash for OS
upgrades but it  already includes an OS  3.0 and the IR  port) but also
much less authentic. The 5000 originally  indicated the 512 kB of RAM and
not 2 MB...

So I swapped  the cards between this device and  my recently downgraded
Palm Pilot Personal (I  wrote here before few weeks what  I have had to
put the 512 kB card with OS 1.0 into it).

Thus now I  have complete and original Pilot 5000!  (and a second Pilot
Personal upgrade to 2MB with IR, yippee!)

The Pilot  5000 seems to  be only slightly  used: (there are  almost no
scratches  on  the  screen  and  the Graffiti  area  looks  like  new).
But  there are  traces  of  battery leak  in  the battery  compartment.
Fortunately, it works anyway.

So there are two  effects: not only I have an  authentic Pilot of the
first generation  for testing (I  have little experience with  OS 1.0.)
but also a range of Pilot Personals  for daily use (now I have THREE of
them and TWO of them have 2MB+IR upgrade - I do not have 3 of any other
Palm model). It's funny, isn't it?