But little was said at the time about connectivity and networking. It could IR-beam (consuming the battery) and sync, but other than muted complaints about missing Bluetooth (which would have consumed even more battery), no one said anything one way or the other about getting it on the Internet. And I’m all about Palm devices on the Internet.
It turns out there’s a reason for that, and we’re going to patch the operating system so we can make the Fossil Wrist PDA into what may be the smallest (and first wrist-mounted) Gopher client. That also required an update to the Overbite Palm Gopher client (which you’ll want for your 68K Palm anyway), and then there’s the matter of the battery refusing to charge as well. And finally, we want to make all of this portable!
This makes my heart flutter and my tummy somersault.
Thom,
Your link goes to a different, but related, blog post on the same site. I think the actual link you meant to put was this:
https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-fossil-wrist-pda-becomes-tiny.html
And thanks for such a fascinating rabbit hole! As a fellow Palm obsessed geek, I always wanted a Fossil PDA watch but never had the money when it was new, and by the time I could afford one they were no longer easy to find nor practical for daily use.