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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | the "new Psion" Gemini |
| Message-Id | <20170228123305.479c9bdd.rsw@therandymon.com> |
| Organization | blocknews - www.blocknews.net |
| Date | 2017-02-28 12:33 -0500 |
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. -- RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com>
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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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