Evan's PDA history page -- it's alive

Hi, ClassicCMP'rs -- I included the list in a "BCC" email but that didn't seem to go through -- so I'm resending the message below... -- Evan (just ignore if you get two copies... Sorry about that...) ================================================ Hello friends, colleagues, collectors, and people I've interviewed... After about four years of work, I've finally completed the vast majority of my PDA history research. So if you're getting this email, it means we've communicated at some point in the recent past. Or else I just thought you're someone who might find this research interesting. It's all online at http://www.snarc.net/pda/pda-treatise.htm -- it is approximately 10,000 words of nerdiness. There will be changes. Inevitably some of you will find typos and suggest corrections, which is the whole reason I'm posting this now at all. FYI to the collecting community -- the majority of this draft was already read over by Bruce Damer, Sellam Ismail, Erik Klein, and Michael Nadeau. Hopefully they caught any blatant mistakes of mine... All of the photographs are used with permission and all are linked back to the original sources. The link to the story "Thank you, Beep" is used with HP's permission. The one thing not yet included is the massive bibliography. I'm working on it as fast as I can. Rest assured, the research isn't just from reading a bunch of random, unproven web pages. There is a reason this took four years: every fact is double- or triple-sourced. The majority of the facts here came from personal interviews that I conducted with the first-person sources, as well as from books, news articles, patent research, etc. Please forward to anyone and everyone. Please do NOT go copying stuff without asking. :) Finally, whatever I wrote here (with the exception of typos, etc.) overrules anything I said or wrote before. :) ----------------------------------------- Evan Koblentz's personal homepage: http://www.snarc.net Also see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/ *** Tell your friends about the (free!) Computer Collector Newsletter - 700 readers and no spam / Publishes every Monday / Write for us! - Mainframes to videogames, hardware and software, we cover it all - W: http://news.computercollector.com E: news at computercollector.com