Watching the movie "Apollo 13" bemused me. I saw engineers calculating engine burn times using slide-rules; I saw a roomful of computers which had less computing power, all put together, than my Linux PC at home. A friend from Romania, also watching the movie, was stunned and asked, "Did they really get to the moon using sliderules?"
Well, if my desktop computer out-powered mission control, my palmtop computer certainly out-powers the spacecraft that went to the moon. What's this world coming to?
Anyway, the Palm Pilot is just amazingly useful. My Palm IIIxe has eight megabytes of memory, which is enough to hold about a dozen full-length books, thousands of addresses, a year's worth of email, or some combination of those things. As someone who badly needs some organization, and who can't stand to be caught without a book handy, I find it incredibly useful. For my convenience and yours, this page has links to pilot resources I find useful, including some electronic texts which I have packaged for the pilot.
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What's installed on Len's Palm Pilot? Includes databases packaged by me, such as:
- A Daily Bible Reading Planner -- Read the whole Bible every year!
- A database for your current Library Books -- Never pay library fines again!
- My Pilot Price Book -- Keep track of shopping bargains!
- A Perry Mason Bibliography -- Read 'em all, exactly once each!
Pilot Etexts packaged by me
