Vintage PDA Restoration: Palm M500 Retro Organizer

Описание: In this video I will be repairing/restoring a Palm M500 for my collection, and because I got some spares (Which i intended to use for parts but basically all turned out to work in the end), I decided to do a give away of them 😊.

GIVEAWAY UPDATE: Forgot to update this section, sorry guys. The first person didn't responded for quite a while, so the second person who was selected by the automatic random giveaway selection tool has selected EmbededKid (on the TeamXNL.com platform) has been selected as the winner 😊

The Giveaway Page (on my website):
https://www.teamxnl.com/giveaways/
Giveaway ENDED at: 30-06-2025

NOTE: You do NOT need to enter on my website, and neither do you need to be subscribed.

Commenting here AND entering on the website could of course double your chances, but it's not mandatory😊 You can choose if you enter just by commenting, just by entering the website giveaway or both.

IMPORTANT: Do make sure to read the rules for eligibility on my giveaway page though, even if you're just commenting to enter (the same rules apply).


The Palm M500 Links:
Palm Desktop Software: https://www.teamxnl.com/palmdesktop6_...
Palm M500 Manuals: https://www.teamxnl.com/Palm-M500-Man...
Palm M500 Mobile Connectivity CD-Rom: https://www.teamxnl.com/palm-m500-mob...


For most (if not all) giveaways I also keep a list online of the past winners and what the giveaway included to be fully transparent with the community. This pages includes giveaways from my (this) channel (which won't be that often), and those from our Pigeon Sophie (who has her own YT channel).
The Giveaway history page can be found here:
https://www.teamxnl.com/previously-he...

Yup: I do realize that the video's "Today's Project" title states 23+ year old..... But that is because I started shooting and editing this video halfway last year, and then didn't got to finishing it until this month. I initially even had planned to release it at the start of December 2024... So it's "a bit" overdue 🤷🏽‍♀️😂


Time Stamps:
00:00 Lead-in
00:16 Intro & Other Projects
00:36 "The Museum" & Missing Piece
01:04 The Palm M500 Score
02:23 Tear-down, Diagnosis & Repair
05:16 Booting the first one
05:54 Palm M500 Specs
07:02 Getting the other boards to run
07:44 Palm M500 Hard Reset
08:26 Frankensteining the LCD
09:25 Using the Palm M500
13:54 Palm M500 compared with mobiles phones from that era
15:08 Syncing the Palm M500 with Palm Desktop (PC)
17:36 EL Backlight Demo
18:05 My most hated cradle
19:04 A 'dying' PDA
20:35 My Palm M500 Downloads (Archived)
21:01 The Giveaway and related information
22:33 Outro ft. Sophie The Pigeon


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