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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: the "new Psion" Gemini |
| Date | 2017-02-28 18:08 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <ehlsloF5mqaU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <20170228123305.479c9bdd.rsw@therandymon.com> |
On 2017-02-28, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/inside_the_new_psion_gemini/
>
> Bill Clinton was still US President when the last pocket computer that
> you could touch type on came out. Back then, almost everyone accessed
> the internet at home on a dialup modem, not broadband, and no phone yet
> sported a colour screen or a camera. It was a different era.
>
> But after 17 years, a Psion 5-style machine is back, in the form of the
> Gemini computer. We had a play with the world’s only prototype on
> Monday at this year's Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, and spoke
> to the driving force behind the Gemini: Planet Computing CEO Dr Janko
> Mrsic-Flogel.
>
> The revival of the much-loved design doesn’t owe anything to nostalgia,
> according to Mrsic-Flogel. Quite simply, he told us, it’s because there
> still isn’t anything like it. Psion’s computers were no more obtrusive
> than a specs case, fitting nicely into a jacket pocket, but people
> wrote books and even PhD theses on them.
I loved my 5MX (if it had had better connectivity, I'd likely still have it)
and if this is anything like as good, I shall have one like a shot. 5MX's
still sell for around £100 ($125) on eBay.
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the "new Psion" Gemini RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-02-28 12:33 -0500
Re: the "new Psion" Gemini Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-02-28 18:08 +0000
Re: the "new Psion" Gemini Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2017-02-28 18:47 +0000
Re: the "new Psion" Gemini RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-01 00:54 +0000
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