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  1. Horace goes skiing! by Rothron+the+Wise · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Japanese Researchers Create Skiing Robot

    http://www.bioeddie.co.uk/Spectrum/Images/HoraceGoesSkiing.jpg

  2. Missing Option: Psion 5 Series by G4from128k · · Score: 4, Interesting · on The History of PDAs in Words and Pictures

    To me, the Psion 5 series is the ultimate PDA. It has a full suite of Office and PIM applications, compact size, a usable keyboard, decent screen size, and stellar battery life (35 hrs on-time with off-the-shelf AAs). Detractors might point to the lack of hand writing recognition, color, and MP3 playing, but I have absolutely no use or interest in those features (apparently, I am in a very small minority).

    Currently, there is absolutely nothing on the market that is remotely as good as the 5 series -- everything these days sucks in battery-life or keyboard or both.

  3. Re:True Story by chrisbtoo · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Digital Retro

    Wasn't one of these, was it? Or one of these? Those were Psion's early handheld computers.

    Rumour has it (from a chap I used to work with at Psion) that they were in the process of writing a database app for the ZX-Spectrum, when someone said something like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if you could get one of these in your pocket?" and thus the handheld computing industry was born.

  4. Re:True Story by chrisbtoo · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Digital Retro

    Wasn't one of these, was it? Or one of these? Those were Psion's early handheld computers.

    Rumour has it (from a chap I used to work with at Psion) that they were in the process of writing a database app for the ZX-Spectrum, when someone said something like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if you could get one of these in your pocket?" and thus the handheld computing industry was born.

  5. Re: Self Reliance by gidds · · Score: 1 · on Apple and the Open Source Community
    Apple gave us:... -The PDA

    You don't think that Psion getting there nine years earlier counts, then? Even the Series 3 beat the Newton by a couple of years.

  6. Right, my first laptop was a Psion MC400 by blorg · · Score: 1 · on Psion May Look To Linux For The Next Big Thing
    Agreed, my first laptop, while I was a student, was the Psion MC400. Used ordinary AA batteries, went for around 40 hours on a charge, had a nice big screen for word processing that you could read outside, a full-travel keyboard, a nice Windowed GUI and a mousepad like modern notepads (you pressed it in to click, rather than having a seperate button). I'd sync it back to my PC over RS232 for backup or printing, although it could print directly either.

    Did I mention that it was instant-on?

  7. Re:Yea bloatware... by greenius · · Score: 1 · on Symbian Signs on Samsung
    And Psion started out as a games developer for 8 bit computers such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum with games like Horace goes Skiing amongst others.

    I just found this page that lists all their old Spectrum games.