A couple of them had Bluetooth. The only 68k-based one with builtin Wi-Fi was the AlphaSmart Dana, a writer&#x27;s keyboard.<p>You&#x27;re very very unlikely going to want to type a truly secure (= long) password over and over and over, which you&#x27;d need to do in a situation where the browser&#x27;s password manager is turned off, and&#x2F;or a website disables password caching anyway.<p>The Palm m5xx series could solve this problem: it had full USB, and I once read of an Palm app (like any other) that bridged the m5xx&#x27;s SD slot to behave like a block device over USB, ie it turned the Palm into a USB SD card reader. That means there&#x27;s a raw USB SDK out there, and adding HID keyboard support wouldn&#x27;t be too hard (no kernel driver development etc).<p>Getting passwords into the device would be nontrivial; Palm keyboards are proprietary to the series they were made for, with a few arbitrary connector updates thrown in for good measure (think iPhone docking connector saga). If the password is irritating enough to repeatedly type on a full keyboard, it would take you a good 5 minutes (and a punching bag, for afterwards) to get it into the PDA, Graffiti and custom keyboards taken into account.<p>I think it would work out though: if the only way to get data out of the device is to tap something on its screen, that should be enough of a brick wall to dissuade would-be attackers.<p>I guess I&#x27;m responding to this so enthusiastically because it&#x27;s about Palm :P - I unfortunately never owned one of these awesome little things, but I&#x27;d love something of similar capabilities built using today&#x27;s tech. With modern advances in power consumption, like MemoryLCD, micropower CPUs, short-range bluetooth, etc, the result would probably last literally weeks. It&#x27;d be enormous fun to hack on, too, and carve out a little niche for itself. :)<p>I wonder if I should Ask HN if this would be a good idea.