Personal digital assistant
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A personal digital assistant is a multi-purpose mobile device which functioned as a personal information manager. Following a boom in the 1990s and 2000s, PDAs were mostly displaced in the early 2010s
The Palm TX
Psion Organiser I (1984)
Apple Newton MessagePad (1993) – Computer History Museum
PalmPilot organiser on display at the Musée Bolo, EPFL, Lausanne
Apple Newton
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The Newton is a series of personal digital assistants developed and marketed by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1993 to 1998. An early device in the PDA category – the term itself originating with the Newto
Personal digital assistant
…The term PDA was first used on 7 January 1992 by Apple Inc. CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton. In 1994, IBM introduced the first PDA with analog cellular phone functionality, the IBM Simon, which can also be considered the first smartphone. Then…
Apple Newton MessagePad 100, with its stylus
Three Newton MessagePad devices with keyboard and LinearFlash PCMCIA memory card accessories
Photograph of screen displaying Checklist, some bullet points checked and/or "collapsed"
MP120