Re: [NTLK] computer chronicles

Oh wow!

I remember watching Computer Chronicles when I was a little kid!

Regarding the other PDAs in this episode - the Zoomer looked SO
slow. Interesting that they filled it with what amounts to an
almanac out of the box... Can't say that I like the overly button
heavy pen interface.

o.O The EO is HUGE! And came with an "high-speed 14.4 modem!" Heh,
it's even a full cell-phone, with detachable handset. Man, Phone/PDA
combinations have come a LONG way since then. But again - the
interface looked much slower than that of the newton, much less that
of an mp2x00. I just can't get over how slowly this thing redraws
it's OS and fills in lists / text. The information linking features
sound nice.

I had no idea that episodes of CC were available somewhere online!
This is an incredible trip down memory lane!

J. Tyler Nichols

On Aug 3, 2006, at 1:03 PM, fsorvin@alumni.sfu.ca wrote:

>
>
> I was poking around the internet archive and I came across this:
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/episode_1113
>
> Computer Chronicles:
> PDAs
> A look at the state of the art in personal digital assistants.
> Products
> demonstrated include the Apple Newton Message Pad, Casio's Zoomer,
> AT&T's EO
> 440 Personal Communicator, Sharp's PI-7000 Expert Pad, and the HP
> 100LX.
> Originally broadcast in 1993.
>
>
> There's a few other various videos on there as well, some covering
> MacWorld
> where the newton is mentioned. Worth a laugh, especially MacWorld
> 1996.
> Check out the hair!
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