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The History of PDAs in Words and Pictures
evanak writes "For the past four years, I've been studying the history of PDAs. It's all summarized in a 10,000-word article on my web site." This history is also illustrated with some pictures and photographs, which are worth it all by themselves.
You could. Assuming yuou knew them all and had the time to waste tracking them all down. And find photos. This guy did and provides a nice retrospective.
But then again, this is Slashdot. You have to try and impress us with how smart you are. Has anybody ever told you how assholic that behavior is?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assi stant
Hey,
Well, I appreciate all the feedback, kind and otherwise...
I wish some people would READ it all before commenting. For example:
- Per the article's headline, it only covers the really evolutionary years, from 75-95. So I didn't "miss" from 96-now as one person said here.
- A few people said I should've include the Hitchhikers Guide. I did, read more carefully.
- "You didn't include [x] PDA." That's true. The article only includes devices that truly pioneered some new step forward, that did something others hadn't done before.
- "The Newton Rulz"... I'm not going to touch that one. Already wearing my anti-Reality Distortion Field vest.
As for the (many!) of you who sent me kind and insightful personal replies -- thank you, I do appreciate it.
...the "Tandy 100". Portable (but not pocket sized) and widely used as a mobile typewriter by news reporters in the mid 80s.
Best Buy can have you arrested