http://www.osnews.com/story/18060/Atari_s_Portfolio_the_World_s_First_Palmtop Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:12:10 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?246503 http://osnews.com/thread?246503 ...the first pocket sized computer!

On 1980, Tandy released the TRS-80 PC-1. It was a pocket-sized Computer. BASIC was built-in.

It had optional, Cassette or Printer/Cassette interfaces.
The Printer/Cassette interface was n fact a mini dot matrix printer!

Later Tandy released the PC-2 and the PC-3, the latest was smaller than the 2 previous models.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=937&st=1 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csynt) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?246508 http://osnews.com/thread?246508 I was thinking Tandy too, but the Foleo reminds me more of the Model 100 / 200 portables. Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StephenBeDoper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?246596 http://osnews.com/thread?246596 ... is apparently thanks to the combination of a Linux OS and Flash based storage (from the Wikipedia article).

Would be nice to have that on my laptop. Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MiliTux) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?246694 http://osnews.com/thread?246694 It would be real nice if the whole OS is stored in Flash ROMs on all computers, laptops especially, with updates taking place similar to the way in which the BIOS is flashed (with enough space for feature updates and the ability to easily upgrade the flash module). But alas such a feature is just impossible for PCs (due to lack of standards and lack of interest in such standards).

Perhaps devices like the Foleo could show a thing or two to general purpose PC manufacturers. But then again maybe not, what with people running towards the latest and the greatest without stopping to think about the real improvements gained. Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Silent_Seer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?246708 http://osnews.com/thread?246708 for the foleo to teach pc makers anything about flash, as several have already announced and Samsung is already shipping, laptops that use flash instead of hard drives. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?246771 http://osnews.com/thread?246771 I remember when they came out, thought they were awesome and craved one for some time.

IIRC in the movie Terminator 2, John Connors used one to rob ATMs and crack a security door. Of course they didn't come with those features out of the box ;-)

Damien Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Damien) Comments