Sad about palm

(Reposted from a FB comment)

Seriously though as a palm fanboi (i had a 128k Pilot!) and 18-month employee (contract, but still), I think this is really sad. they’ve been ill served by many masters but none worse than HP.

A favorite memory of working there, just after the III was released and selling like mad: 3com had just moved everybody from the Shoreline offices to their megaplex off Hwy 237 and there was a lot of grumbling. It was weird, our building was separated from the main campus by a physical moat with a bridge— and the ideological chasm was even wider.

As an inspired “we’re here, we’re weird, f u” move, a few of the testers had gotten together tons of xmas lights and spelled out P A L M in 10 foot letters in the windows of the third-floor lab, facing the rest of 3com campus.