Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: the "new Psion" Gemini Date: 28 Feb 2017 18:08:56 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20170228123305.479c9bdd.rsw@therandymon.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net LnnE18+nE0diQyHeK0yCTw6ykvdT3uN9Bu7HBatIEawa2WwUQC Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bk82QgrNkMRCC4bP8CF2sGxl0no= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:13230 On 2017-02-28, RS Wood 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. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 59th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3183 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.