The Pilot 1000 was sold as a connected organizer: contacts, appointments, notes, and tasks moved between the pocket device and a desktop PC through the included cradle and one-button HotSync process. The design made the handheld an accessory to the computer rather than a replacement for it, a distinction the Computer History Museum identifies as central to the product's success. (Computer History Museum: The PalmPilot; artifact record)
The specimen card records the model's period specification: Palm OS 1.0, a 160 x 160 four-shade monochrome touchscreen, 128 KB of memory, two AAA batteries, a 120 x 80 x 18 mm body, and a $299 launch price. (PalmInfocenter retrospective with the reproduced January 29, 1996 press release)
Card 03 is an interpretive reconstruction of the 1996 desktop-companion workflow, not a documentary photograph. The product appearance is anchored to museum and collection photography. (Wikimedia Commons: Pilot 1000; Computer History Museum artifact record)
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