Re: [NTLK] Amigo-600C first PDA with PC card slot?

From: Way (firstvln_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 22:41:24 EDT

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Mark Fellows wrote:
>The HP95LX supported PCMCIA 1.0 cards. It was introduced on 23 April 1991;
>more than two years before the OMP.
>
>- Mark

In a previous message, David Orriss Jr typed vigorously:

>The HP100LX was never considered a PDA. It was considered a portable
>computer. The Newton is not only the first PDA, it made the term PDA a
>household phrase.

And John Sculley is attributed with coining the term Personal Digital
Assistant in the first place. The nerve of these "journalists" messing
with history. Egad!

Way

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