<10 years but On Topic

I just got my first taste of the General Magic DataRover 840 and man is it a fun machine! Here's an intro although I believe that several designers may be on list to tell you more. It's sort of like the first hard drive Mac simplified by half and made pocket sized. More Newton sized than Palm. The screen is really high resolution for a pocket machine, much better than Palm. The O/S and apps have all the cleverness you might expect from Apple, but a little more streamlined for quick use. There's the pictoral desktop, a hallway with file cabinets, etc. great graphics all around. Surprising this isn't used on all Cellphones at this point, I believe it was attempted for some. Hardware includes A Phone port for Voice, Fax, and Internet connectivity. PCMCIA*2 ports. A form of IRDa, and a small port that may be a form of SCSI since there is a driver for that. They're practically giving them away right now, even on eBay so hence the mention. This situation will definitely not be the same in 5 years. I think it deserves inclusion here even though at 7 years (1998) it's out of band formally, but due to to the severe Crash and burn of both the product, which couldn't fight both CE and Palm, and of the company (Internet bubbled?) it's becoming _ancient_ history real fast. The sudden death of everything makes it difficult to find outside information, accesories and so on Today, but what you get is a great machine Not SPAM, just happy with the find. John A. Keywords: DataRover 840, Magic Cap O/S, General Magic Inc.