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@david_chisnall @rc2014 @tilton
Personal computing peaked with the Imlac PDS-1 and Xerox Alto, even though neither were convenient to carry around.
@david_chisnall @rc2014 @tilton My favourite part was how it got out of your way and let you get your work done! I had a HP 700LX back in the day but I always wanted a Psion
I now have soooooo many Psions in various states of repair and disrepair. Such wonderful devices, and yes, the 3c is special (although I love taking my 3mx for a spin around the block, to burn some rubber)...
@david_chisnall @rc2014 @tilton
I had a 3 (technically, I still do, but it hasn’t been able to power on for over 20 years) and it was one of the computers I have most enjoyed owning. The 3a was a huge improvement and I wanted on so much, but they were expensive. The 3c was mostly a faster 3a. The 3mx looked nice on paper, but I knew a few people who got them (I got my 3 second hand from one of them, who ran a local ISP and always had to buy the latest gadget and so was often a good source of fairly new second-hand things, she’d replaced hers with a 3a almost on launch day). They complained non-stop about the battery life. Same with the 5: nice keyboard, shame you don’t get to use it because the battery is always flat.
It’s a shame the web largely killed them: the later Psion devices that ran web browsers were swamped by the relative complexity of the browser vs everything else on the system.
