puke Under the heading “PDA History” there is now a new entry “Psion Power Book“, which is a translation of the first chapter of the book “Psion Power Buch – Geschichte Psions”, published in 2002. This chapter gives the reader an excellent overview of all the handhelds that Psion produced, and also an insight into where … Read more
The Psion Revo page has two new pictures – one showing the sliding keyboard mechanism and the other a size-comparison to Series 5. It also has a new link to the Psion Welt page of the unit (in German, but easily translated), and a statement to the fact that the Sketch application was missing from … Read more
New content related to Psion is available on the Ads from when they were new page. Many thanks to contributor Thomas Ullrich!
The page on Psion Revo, Psions last true PDA, is now published. What do you think? Do you miss anything?
Although not particularly unique, the Casio Cassiopeia is a typical example of what a stylus driven Windows CE 2.0 powered device would look like in 1998. Was it any good? Read more at Casio Cassiopeia at pdamuseum.eu
Generally considered to be the first commercially successful Palmtop computer, the Atari Portfolio in essence is a “shrunken down PC” that runs DOS on a CMOS version of Intel 8088. Introduced in 1989, it became very popular in its day and you can still find software for it. Read more at Atari Portfolio at pdamuseum.eu
Well the title says it all, doesn’t it? Thanks to “humbertog” att r/oldhandhelds for the suggestion!
The only laptop from Apple that runs Newton OS, the eMate 300 was targeted towards schools and it had some nice features going for it. Read all about it at its page
Today I am adding a new section, under the main menu heading “PDA History”, called Ads from when they were new. Have a look, and be amazed of how the companies marketed their products back then.
Apples last Newton model – the MessagePad 2100 – is now featured in the museum. You will find it here. Yet to come: The first Newton, and the eMate 300.