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Though not properly a "PC", at the time the PSION series 3 were pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_S

• peter_d_sherman 7y ago
  Interesting choice! But it is sort of a PC, because it can run a Linux subset... but anyway, interesting choice. Excerpt: "The Psion Series 3 range is regarded by writer Charles Stross as an unsurpassed PDA[1] because of its long battery life (20 to 35 hours), its stable and versatile software, and its durable hardware.[2]" So that's really not too bad in terms of battery life...
  • jaclaz 7y ago
    Yep. I actually used it, we had two of them, one myself and one my wife, and though it was not comparable to anything you might think of today, but the syncing with a desktop (there was a serial cable if I recall correctly) wasn't that bad and to write a letter or do some basic spreadsheet work it was just fine, remembering that it is not like (at the time) Lotus 1-2-3 and Dbase (or Wordperfect) in DOS were that much "easy" or "powerful". To give you a term of comparison, in those years I had a Toshiba 3100: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100 to be exact a 3100 e/40, one of the models that had not a battery (i.e. it was a "portable" but you needed mains to operate). It took a couple years before I upgraded to what (still today) I remember as the "perfect" portable computer, the lesser known (but exceptional for the times) Compaq Concerto (a notebook/tablet with pen input): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto