Sunday, November 3, 2002
The Original Pocket PC?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 06:00 PM
http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n6/european_report.html
Well slap me silly and call me Marty McFly! The year is 1989. Atari is cool, and they decide to step into the Pocket PC arena just a little before the iPAQ... :lol: Talk about retro!
"Perhaps the most surprising announcement from Atari U.K. at this writing is the prototype for the Pocket PC, the world's first pocket-sized IBM PC clone, designed in the U.K. by the Guildford-based Distributed Information Processing (DIP). This product is based on a series of custom-built low-power chips and a variation of the "smart card" system-used instead of conventional disk drives. DIP already has a pretty good track record for such designs-their managing director, David Frodsham, and their development director, Peter Baldwin, have both held senior positions as Psion, the company responsible for the popular Organizer and Organizer II systems."
Well slap me silly and call me Marty McFly! The year is 1989. Atari is cool, and they decide to step into the Pocket PC arena just a little before the iPAQ... :lol: Talk about retro!
"Perhaps the most surprising announcement from Atari U.K. at this writing is the prototype for the Pocket PC, the world's first pocket-sized IBM PC clone, designed in the U.K. by the Guildford-based Distributed Information Processing (DIP). This product is based on a series of custom-built low-power chips and a variation of the "smart card" system-used instead of conventional disk drives. DIP already has a pretty good track record for such designs-their managing director, David Frodsham, and their development director, Peter Baldwin, have both held senior positions as Psion, the company responsible for the popular Organizer and Organizer II systems."
