The Birth of the Pilot

Submitted by tuxtops on Fri, 09/16/2005 - 15:26

Palm OS was born at a small subsidiary of Tandy, then the largest personal computer manufacturer, that produced innovative notebook computer in the late eighties. One of the company's vice presidents, brain researcher turned computer scientist named Jeff Hawkins, convinced the parent company to allow him to develop a tablet computer aimed towards data intensive workers like parking maids or realtors.