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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.
A 50,0000 word thesus about a loose piece of skin between my sack and my browneye about 6 years ago.
Turk: Let's play Steak. J.D.: What? Turk: Steak. The 1st person to finish their steak is the winner of Steak. -Scrubs
First off, this guy is a total fool for not giving the Newton more props.. He OBVIOUSLY never used one: "Regardless of how fancy the Newton's interface is, a digital handheld organizer is a digital handheld organizer, and Wizard models existed four years before the Newton (not to mention many PDAs dating back to at least 1976!)." Yet he had already admitted earlier it was Apple that even INVENTED the term PDA :P Not to mention, to call the Newton an "organizer" is like calling a Cray a "calculator"
And althought the handwriting recognition of the Newton was lampooned in pop culture it STILL is better than anything every released. The only thing that I have ever used that even comes close is sadly TabletPC *ducks*
Seriously, bashing the Newton in this article is worse than stupid, it is based on some irrational fear of the Newton. Maybe one was being used to VNC into his server and it killed his mom!