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CP3S
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What the hell is this thing?
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Date created
11-May-2013, 12:23 AM

I thought the OP was a joke at first, then I realized it was serious, and now I am crying.

One of the coolest pieces of technology I owned when I was a preteen was my electronic organizer. It was awesome, like having my very own computer that fit in my pocket. I could type up short paragraphs in it and save them. Or use it as a calculator. Years later I upgraded to one with an indiglo screen. I think my first one was a Royal DM75. All my friends were really jealous, and I felt extremely sophisticated with this thing in my back pocket everywhere I went. It was basically a glorified calculator with all the capabilities of a digital watch, and with the ability to store a limited number of text memos. I used to store dirty words in mine, and felt pretty cool about it. It featured a password lock too, so no worries of prying eyes reading my secret profanity laced memos to myself.

Later the things came with dictionaries built into them, and you could play simple word games (like hangman) on them.

The one pictured above was what they started to look like right before they went extinct, mimicking the look of the then popular, and much more technologically advanced, PDAs.