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8bit  





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I was watching Terminator 2 the other day and noticed the character John Connor using a small piece of Atari hardware to work out the pin no. for a stolen credit card and steal cash.
It looked interesting so I went to the Atari museum website and found out it was their palmtop computer the Portfolio (1989), quite a neat little device for its day. Apparently running an 8088 chip at 4mhz. Cool

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/pccomputers/portfolio.html
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Wow! I'm not sure if it's in the same class, running DOS and all, but this precedes the Apple Newton (1993).
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8bit  





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I think the absolute earliest palmtop was the Psion? Anyone else remember or have one of those Question
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Wow, instant nostalgia! It's amazing how something like that was 4 MHz. Back in the day 32kb was considered a lot of memory and now we've got hard drives with terraflops. A friend of mine's main computer was a 400 MHz Windows 95 PC when the first 405+ MHz Pocket PCs were coming out a year or so ago.
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8bit  





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Well that's progess. I still have my handbook for my old 386 PC and it proudly stated that it had a 80MB hard drive = 55 3 1/2 inch diskettes. I just fitted an 80GB hard drive to my 2001 Celeron PC Exclamation
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