Re: first hand computer

[email removed] (Richard Johnson) writes:
>
> This is from today's (March 20, 1992) "Wall Street Journal",
> without permission.
>
> UNIT OF TANDY ROLLS OUT FIRST `WEARABLE' COMPUTER
> By a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter
> ...
> Measuring 6.2 inches by nine inches [why can't they keep their style
> for numbers straight?] and weighing 2.8 pounds--about the size of
> a hardcover book--the computer is designed primarily to fit comfortably
> across the forearm and into the hand.  It uses the company's pen-based
> software, which eliminates the need for typing on a keyboard.
> ...
> So, y'spose Marc Miller is going to see his attorney about patents
> now?  :=)

First "wearable" computer, maybe.  (I've been carrying a Psion Organiser
in a belt-pouch for years now, but you can't use it and "wear" it at the
same time.)

But this is certainly not the first hand-computer.  Sharp had something
answering that description a long time ago; Psion have produced the
Organiser, and more recently the Series 3; and there is the HP95.  If
Marc Miller wants to sue someone, he's got quite a long list of possible
targets!

- --
 "Keyboard?  How quaint!" - M. Scott

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