Interesting and timely (excuse the pun) thread, seeing as this week at work we have turned up an original IBM AT with IBM color monitor, and several Psion Organiser II's. Both very interesting bits of kit to power up and see what it was like back in the mid 80's.

Like a lot of folk on here I'm sure, I remember the early days. I started with a sinclair zx81, and progressed though various incarnations of desktops and psion handhelds. What we can do now would have absolutely stunned people 25 years ago.

The internet tablet is almost exactly what I was willing the psions to be 7 years ago, and what was being hinted at by some companies, remember the zenith cruisepad or the 3com audrey anyone?