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Kroc Camen

@Kroc@oldbytes.space · 2 months ago

Sneak peak. #worldglass #writing #psion

Photo of a table upon which is a Costa Coffee takeaway cup, a silver classic iPod, and a Psion 5mx palmtop computer, open, showing off its screen and keyboard. On the screen is a portion of text from a book being written.

#worldglass #psion #writing

Kroc Camen

@Kroc@oldbytes.space · last month

Back to the grind

#worldglass #writing #writersofmastodon #psion #retrocomputing

Photo a Psion 5mx palmtop computer, open, on a pale wood grain table with a silver-coloured “classic” iPod and a red takeaway cardboard coffee cup.

Kroc Camen

@Kroc@oldbytes.space · 4 weeks ago

Currently slumming it on the train…

#psion #retrocomputing #writing #writersofmastodon #worldglass

Photo of a Psion 5mx “palmtop” computer, open, and iPod Classic on a train table, half in bright sunlight

Kroc Camen

@Kroc@oldbytes.space · 2 weeks ago

A British classic

#worldglass #greggs #retrocomputing #palmtop #psion

Photo of a table upon which is a Gregg’s takeaway coffee cup and a Psion 5mx “palmtop” computer, open, showing its keyboard and LCD screen

Kroc Camen

@Kroc@oldbytes.space · 2 weeks ago

Grabbing lunch. Included a side-shot this time to give you an idea of the device’s profile: it doesn’t simply open calm-shell style but instead slides the keyboard tray outward and brings the centre-fold inwards to give it a more comfortable typing position, and stability — the centre-fold is *not* at the back of the device! Psion won a design award for this piece of engineering.

No modern device is doing this.
They did it in 1997.

#psion #retrocomputing

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Photo of an arrangement on a table centred around a Psion 5mx “palmtop” computer, open, with its LCD screen and keyboard. Positioned around it is a small pot of sugar packets, a black cardboard takeaway coffee cup, a sandwich on a plate, a thin wooden “stirrer”, and a iPod “classic”, face-down, with a pair of wired black in-ear headphones on top wrapped into a coil.

Sideways shot of a Psion 5mx “palmtop” computer, closed.

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Paolo Amoroso

@amoroso@oldbytes.space · 4 weeks ago

@Kroc That form factor is a local maximum in mobile system design.