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A History of Psion
This morning I came across this article in The Register that chronicles the history of Psion, a British company that was making handheld computers at the time Windows CE (for the forerunner of Windows Mobile) came to be. The article came to me by way of Michael Mace.Few today probably remember some of the innovative development going on in handhelds during late '80s and '90s around chip design and the integration of software with hardware. Looking at the buzz around the Asus Eee PC and HP Mini-note, I can't help but be reminded that Psion (HP, Atari, and others) were developing keyboard-based minicomputers almost 20 years ago. What Asus and HP are doing today is not new, it's just that there is now a larger market for these devices than exi...

