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From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: The next step downwards
Message-ID: <1991May11.172818.23250@Think.COM>
Date: 11 May 91 17:28:18 GMT
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In article <1991May09.154521.16505@grep.co.uk> frank@grep.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes:
>In article <1991May8.000043.11046@Think.COM> laird@think.com writes:
>>My _only_ point in this entire discussion has been to point out that
>>HP _didn't_ invent the handheld computer market,
>
>Go on, then, convince me that either the HP-65 wasn't the first handheld
>computer, or that another company had a handheld computer prior to 1974.

OK, let me reprase that.  My _only_ point in this entire discussion has
been to point out that HP _didn't_ invent the handheld computer market with
the 95LX.  As you point out with the HP-65, there have been a number of
programmable handhelds for quite a while.  And, needless to say, handheld
DOS computers, even ones with scheduling, spreadsheet, etc., software.

- Laird Popkin