I keep forgetting about the Psion (the 5 I think). It almost seems as if it got excluded from computing history because it just worked, did well in the little it tried to do instead striving for something more ambitious and then spectacularly failing.
Dad of a friend had one I think, not because he was an eager early adopter of futuristic gadgetry but because he wasn't the kind of person who'd inevitably try to maximise spec sheet numbers per dollar, happy to spend money for nominally "inferior" tech if it just worked. I guess that might have generally been Psion's market segment, and that's all explanation needed for the relatively low visibility in computing history?
Dad of a friend had one I think, not because he was an eager early adopter of futuristic gadgetry but because he wasn't the kind of person who'd inevitably try to maximise spec sheet numbers per dollar, happy to spend money for nominally "inferior" tech if it just worked. I guess that might have generally been Psion's market segment, and that's all explanation needed for the relatively low visibility in computing history?