[From Eric Mann] PC Advisor have published an editorial, Will Palm soon be history? "About 12 years ago, I met with a man I didn't know, who worked for a start-up I was unfamiliar with, to see a product I'd never heard of. The man was Ed Colligan. The start-up was Palm Computing (though it had recently been acquired by modem maker US Robotics). And the product was code-named Touchdown, later to be branded the Palm Pilot. At the time, I was executive editor of a computer magazine, and Palm was just one of a dozen or so companies scheduled for meetings that week. Most of those meetings were forgotten minutes after they concluded. But the Touchdown one was a revelation. Colligan, now president and chief executive of Palm, left me a device to test."
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