Instant Vintage PDA Business Card

I needed a private business card and was not able to find my usual boring ones, so I fetched some vintage hardware, and used a printer in photocopy mode. No use of a PC!

Step 1 Select Suited Vintage Gadget

I am a pocket computers collector (owning also a couple of PDAs). Of course, all items are in perfectly working condition!

Too vintage gadgets won't make it:

You need a multi-lines backlit display.

So bye-bye Sharp PC-1211 (one-liner), PC-1600 (no backlight), etc. Such a shame!

I made a tests with a Sharp PC-1600 (1986) and a Sony Clié (2002). My choice ended to be my Sony Clié (Palm-compatible PDA).

Comments

[susanrm]

Cute!! I have a color Treo that might be able to be resurrected. But rather than just print it on my printer, which doesn't look so professional, I might turn it into an image and have that printed by Vistaprint or somewhere. Great idea!

[pcairic]

Or start the PalmOS emulator/simulator, choose a skin, type your note and make a screen copy. Cleaner, faster, and doesn't require the actual gadget which battery is dead and cables are long lost.
I must have an archive of the SDK somewhere...

[Bongmaster]

oh wow a clie XD i had one of them X3 gave it to my bro wen i got a smartphone tho XD

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Great! Very unique business card!