Here are hundreds of Compaqs with Windows on them. The idea is that you go to the JavaOne web site and log in as yourself, then pick out the conference sessions you want to see...
then you go over here...
plug your Palm V into one of these cradles...
and synchronize.
Then when you look in the custom JavaOne schedule app that was installed on your Palm V,
voila, there's your schedule. Kick ass.
There were other apps that required social promiscuity. For example, the Puzzle app came with 1 piece, and you had to trade yours (via IR beaming) with other people to get the whole thing. Once you got it there was a question, and if you got the right answer the next time you synced you would be entered in a contest or something. I didn't care about that, I was too busy trading Java .class files so I could get all the ones needed to play the Missile game.
What? You didn't get a Palm V? That's because you had to pay extra. I decided that $199 plus those apps plus the new extremely-alpha-quality Java VM for PalmOS (KJavaVM) was way way way way too compelling to pass up so I waited in line.
I think I understood one of the keynote guys say they had 10,000 Palm V's to sell at the show. Here are stacks and stacks of them.