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Portable Computers

• Early- Osborne- Kaypro- Compaq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Compaq_portable.jpghttp://oldcomputers.net/osborne.htmlhttp://oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html

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Portable Computers

• Early- Osborne- Kaypro- Compaq

• Later- That’s what we’ll talk about today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Compaq_portable.jpghttp://oldcomputers.net/osborne.htmlhttp://oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html

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Progression• Mainframe• Minicomputer• Microcomputer• Nanocomputer?

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Progress?

“This nanocomputer is great... But the keyboard sure is a pain to type on!”

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Laptops

• Not a new concept- (TRS-80 Model 100)

• How do we distinguish previous portable PC’s from laptops?

- Runs desktop OS

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Radio_Shack_TRS-80_Model_100.jpg

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NEC UltraLite

• First notebook computer to run MS-DOS (1988)

- But it had no hard drive- and a 8086 processor

http://www.configurarequipos.com/doc441.html

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Compaq LTE

• First practical DOS-based laptop (1989)• 640 KB memory• Built-in hard/floppy drives• Built-in modem• MS-DOS 3.3• No pointing device

http://www.overclockers.com/articles1171/

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Apple PowerBook

• First ergonomic laptop (1991)- includes pointing device- space for palmrests

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Powerbook_100_pose.jpg

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Handhelds

• Sometimes called PDA’s- “Personal Digital Assistant”

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Apple Newton

• Early handheld computer (1993)• Excellent handwriting recognition

http://www.gadgetspage.com/2007/06

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Palm Pilot

• First popular handheld computer (1997)

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060321/060321_PalmPilot_vmed.widec.jpg

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Graffiti

• Gesture-recognition for Palm

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Handspring

• Visor (1999)- USB

http://www.munguia.us/index1.htm

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Pocket PC

• Microsoft’s answer to Palm• Not a single device, but a standard for

devices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocketpc

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Weird corporate politics

• Palm Computing, Inc. (1992)- Acquired by U.S. Robotics (1995)- Acquired by 3Com (1997)

• Handspring (1998)• PalmSource, Inc. (2002)• PalmOne, Inc. (2003)

- merger with Handspring• ACCESS Co.

- acquires PalmSource (2005)• Palm, Inc. (2005)

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Cellular phones

• Originally, just a mobile telephone• Now, most are computers, too.

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IBM Simon

• First “smart phone” (1992)- phone, pager, clock, address book, calculator,

games

http://stb.msn.com/i/C1/13B55919C32241AA7ABD2F4CC2E82.jpg

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Other early phones

• Nokia 9000 (1996)• Blackberry (2001)• Handspring Treo (2002)

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Portable Music Players

• Is the iPod a computer?- Discuss.

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Operating Systems

• Requirements:- Low power consumption- Small display size

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PalmOS

• Single-tasking OS• Many built-in applications

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Palmos53a.png

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Windows

• Windows CE• Windows Mobile

- Designed for PocketPC platform

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Windows_mobile_6.png

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Symbian OS

• Most popular mobile OS• Like PalmOS, designed for mobile devices

from the start.• Jointly owned by Nokia, Panasonic,

Siemens, Samsung, and others.

http://www.tradenote.net/images/users/000/452/693/products_images/737237.jpg

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BlackBerry OS

• Push email (not pull)- They didn’t invent it, but popularized it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blackberry7250.jpg

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IPhone OS

• Used for iPhone and iPod Touch• Based on MacOS X

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iphone_front.png

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Linux

• Only somewhat popular in mobile world- Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Launcher.jpg

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Handheld game consoles

• Early 1980’s: game-specific machines

http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/pacman_coleco.jpg

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First one

• Milton Bradley “Microvision” (1979)- Mildly successful

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Microvision2.jpg

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Nintendo

• Gameboy (1989)- First popular handheld game console with

exchangeable cartridges

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gameboy.jpg

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Atari

• Atari Lynx (1989)- Atari’s last visible hardware product

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Atari-lynx-1-1000.jpeg

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