12-16-2005, 10:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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What Got You Started In Powerful Mobile Devices?
I am curious as to what your first PDA style device was, limiting it to devices made with ultra-portability in mind, those with a specially designed OS with instant on capabilities, not just a desktop OS shoehorned into a small formfactor.
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12-16-2005, 10:18 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,520
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My very first device was the Psion Revo. I thought EPOC was a great OS, but ultimately I didn't see too much of a future in Psion hardware.
My next device was the iPaq 3600.
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12-16-2005, 10:26 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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My first "real" mobile device was a Velo 1. Ah, those were the days - broken hinges were the all the rage.
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12-16-2005, 10:27 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 147
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I got started with the Sharp Wizard many moons ago. Then had a Psion 3c, and progressed through several Palm models before starting my foray into Pocket PCs with the iPAQ 3600. I'm currently on my 5th iPAQ model! 8O
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12-16-2005, 10:29 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 72
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My very first was an Epson Handy Terminal (see attached picture)
The device was runnig CP/M had an detachable printer, barcode scanner and a touchscreen (there was a device with rubber keys too).
The program had to be flashed into an EPROM ...
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12-16-2005, 10:35 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 12
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Early Cassiopeia (105, I think), (pre-B-300) bricklette. Best indoor screen, worthless in the sun. EB holster case on belt, super-geek style, made my pants hang low, like when I was in high school in North Hollywood. 8)
Currently using HP 4700 on belt in an EB holster--I love the magnetic closure!
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12-16-2005, 10:45 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,734
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I started with a Palm IIIe, and I used it for everything. I was surfing the web via IR and a mobile phone, I was keeping all my shopping lists, keeping all my passwords, even printing via IR.
I'm not sure I would call a early Palm a powerful mobile device however. Even then I was lusting after an HP PDA.
Surur
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12-16-2005, 10:54 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,329
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See my history below...
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PDA History: Palm Pilot 5000 -> Apple Newton 2100 -> Casio E-11 -> iPaq 3650 (64MB Upgrade) -> iPaq 3700 -> Casio EM-500 -> HP Jornada 568 -> HP iPaq hx4705 www.spreadfirefox.com |
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12-16-2005, 11:05 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 4
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My first powerful mobile device was a Post Slide Rule. Didn't have to charge it and I could read it to 17 decimal places! Then bought a four banger calculator ~ 1971. Ahh, life was good. Then got into programable calculators - owned 5 or 6 HP's. I was doing things faster than my co-workers could do on the TSO. I was then given a HandSpring Delux (8MB), but we won't talk about that machine except to say I did write a note to my Dad on it once while sitting on the China Wall. And then came the PPC!!!! Wow! I gave my HP-48SX away when I bought my first - a Compaq Aero (black & white). Imagine - excell spreadsheets on the go!!! And then I got a Dell X5 - Yahoo! - Color!! Also got a GPS CF card for the Dell. Now I'm using an Ipaq 2215. I needed faster graphics with a newer GPS program. This little PPC is still serving me well so I have no present plans to up grade. i.e. - I don't know of any newer PPC that can do anything that I need any better than my 2215. Man, I'm glad to live in this time of age!! - Oh, did I tell you I'm an engineer? - Jim Williams
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12-16-2005, 11:14 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 31
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My dad used to buy the latest Psion handhelds, so the second latest always went to me. I started with an "Organiser II" with two rows of screen characters, then a second generation Organiser II with a four row screen, then a series 3 and finally a series 3a when he got his series 5.
I used to program a lot for the Organiser II, including a graphical menu system like the one on the Series 3 ("mCard" or something) and an OPL version of Streetfighter II!! That last project never really took off, unfortunately. You may remember that "graphics" on the Organiser consisted of eight (8!) user-definable 8x5 pixel characters... cutting edge...
I have a Qtek 9090 now, by the way.
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