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Sunday, 21 April 2019
quote [ The first computing device that would actually fit in your pocket was the Cal Tech, a 1967 prototype created by Texas Instrument.
Hewlett-Packard’s HP-65 came with differential equations, stock prices, statistics In January, 1992, Apple Computer announced the Newton MessagePad, coined the phrase “personal digital assistant.” The Ericsson R380, in November 2000, was the first touchscreen smartphone to be the same size and weight as a regular cellphone. On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs made pocket computing history. “Today,” he said, “Apple is going to reinvent the phone.” ] Did you catch "Editor’s note: By popular request, this story has been updated to include a paragraph on the PalmPilot."
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LacheChance said @ 8:01am GMT on 22nd Apr
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I remember there being an HP-35 in my house that you had to plug in. And the most notable feature of a palm pilot was that you could input the brand name of a tv and turn it into a remote-control, a feature that was bizarrely removed from the palms well before its demise, and would still kick ass in modern phones.
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Ankylosaur said @ 9:29pm GMT on 21st Apr
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steele said @ 2:16am GMT on 22nd Apr
Somewhere at my parent's house I think I still have an hp calculator very similar to thumbcalc.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 1:33pm GMT on 22nd Apr
I have the calculator my dad used in college.
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ubie said[2] @ 3:22am GMT on 22nd Apr
Won't lie, the Apple Newton is the only Apple product I have actually lusted over.
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C18H27NO3 said @ 7:30pm GMT on 22nd Apr
I can help you with that.
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ubie said @ 4:38am GMT on 23rd Apr
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Did Apple make something worth buying again?
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C18H27NO3 said @ 7:36pm GMT on 22nd Apr
My father bought a bowmar brain in like 1972. Don't remember which. Then I bought a palm pilot with a motorola star tac (which I still have), and then a nokia and then a smartphone.
But somebody I knew found a Apple Newton on the streets with famous people's phone numbers in it. I think Drew Barrymore was one. I still own it, and am about ready to have it recycled as I'm so tired of keeping old comp equipment out of posterity. I still have my old dell latitude with win 95 on it that I bought in '95. Not sure what to do with all this crap. |
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mechanical contrivance said @ 7:47pm GMT on 22nd Apr
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If you don't want your old computers, give them to some nerd who is into that sort of thing.
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C18H27NO3 said @ 9:17pm GMT on 22nd Apr
I kinda want to sell it along with a fuckload of home electronics collecting dust in my office. Vhs, DVD players, routers, rokus, etc. Ebay and craigslist are a waste of time. It's not like I want the money - as it's all probably worth a couple of hundred bucks at most - but I just want it to be used or recycled. So far I have no nerd friends that would want the pile of plastic, silicone, and copper, so it'll probably end up at best buy recycling center. : (
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arrowhen said @ 10:50pm GMT on 22nd Apr
You might also consider donating it to a thrift store.
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C18H27NO3 said @ 11:54pm GMT on 22nd Apr
Yeah. The thrift stores around me are sketchy. I don't know where the money goes, and the employees don't know either when I ask. They say they are for charity, but I'm guessing it goes into the pocket of a shyster. But yes. I guess someone that's a nerd would buy it.
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arrowhen said[1] @ 9:09pm GMT on 22nd Apr
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You could probably find someone on r/VintageApple willing to take that Newton off your hands.
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Paracetamol said @ 7:38pm GMT on 22nd Apr
Did anybody else find the rad link on pocket fashion chauvinism?
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ethanos said @ 10:10pm GMT on 22nd Apr
when i got my bowmar calculator i was so excited but the only thing i could think of doing was that calculation if you took a sheet of paper and tore it in half, then tore those in half, again and again one hundred times, how tall would the stack of paper be? i did the calculation well over a hundred times.
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