Pilot 1000
The Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000 are the first generations of PDAs produced by Palm Computing. It was introduced in March 1996.
The Pilot uses a Motorola 68328 processor at 16 MHz, and had 128 kB or 512 kB built in Random-access memory.
The PDA has a plastic case. Its dimensions are 120x80x18 mm and weight is 160 grams. The Pilot has a 160x160 pixel monochrome LCD tactile panel, with a "Graffiti input zone" presented in the bottom third of the screen. Underneath the screen sits a green on/off button, four applications buttons and two scroll buttons. At left, contrast control. At right top, stylus slot. On the back of the device there is a Memory Slot door, Reset button, battery compartment and Serial Port.
Memory is kept in a "memory slot" under a plastic cover at the back top of the PDA. A 512 kB ROM chip stores the Palm OS 1.0 and resident applications. RAM is available in 128 kB, 512 kB or 1 MB; with a PalmPilot Professional memory card, up to 2 MB of RAM. Hardware limit is 12 MB of RAM and 4 MB of ROM.
After a calibration test presented during the initial power up, the Pilot would boot and be ready for use and synchronization. Connecting and synchronizing the PDA was initially done through a utility called Pilot Desktop. For the PC, Pilot Desktop was distributed either on 3½ inch disk or on CD-ROM. A version of Pilot Desktop now exists for use with the Mac platform and open source support exists for use on Linux distributions, as well.