[Swordmaker]

The Psion was the first PDA. Those are the facts, Newton was NOT first. Yes Newtons had more features, but that just makes it another example of exactly what I said, Apple taking an existing gadget (the PDA) and adding widgets (like a calendar) and then the lying fanboys insist Apple was first. They weren’t, Psion was first, by 8 years.

The psion was NOT a Personal Digital Assistant. It was a limited purpose hand held computer with a single line passive screen and an awkward user interface. Just because YOU and other Apple trolls want to call it such when it lacked basic organizer applications like a clock, calendar, reminders, and basically had just a limited address and phone number list with a small note pad capability with a 4K memory limit and was called a "pocket organizer" it was by NO MEANS anything like a fully capable computer! It was more a glorified calculator. I had a digital watch that had many of those capabilities by the end of the 80s but IT wasn't a PDA either. . . And it DID have a clock and calendar!

If you want to stretch fact like that to include the Psion, then the TRUE first PDA was a spiral bound 2" x 4" note book and a pencil my father carried in his shirt pocket for fourty years. He kept his appointments, his addresses and phone numbers, a collection of poems, some drawings and plans for inventions ( a couple he patented!), important dates, thoughts(!), notes, reminders, and a host of other things in that notebook/PDA. He's been dead since 1995 but I still have that PDA and there are no batteries to run down and the pencil doesn't even need sharpening; he upgraded to a mechanical one sometime in 1991! But the erasure mechanism leaves a lot to be desired. . . it leaves smudge ghosts now. . . easily read remnants of what was erased. Best of all, it has far more than 4K of capacity! My dad, though, before he died, was getting close to using what capacity it had...

[discostu]

It WAS a PDA. Sure it wasn’t a PDA with a touch screen but it WAS a PDA, and it WAS the first, and trying to say it isn’t is just more of you LYING.

It didn’t have to be a fully capable computer. to be the first PDA something only has to be a Personal Digital Assistant, and that IS what a pocket organizer is.

The only anybody doing any stretching is you. Trying to find some way to make Apple first. They weren’t, they never are. Those are the facts. And none of your pathetic lies change the facts.

Oh and spiral bound notebooks aren’t digital, and one would have to be a deliberately obtuse liar to say it was.