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Yes, that struck me, as well. I think he does a lot of cribbing from Wikipedia and does not acknowledge it. Online a few people have pointed out big holes in

Yes, that struck me, as well. I think he does a lot of cribbing from Wikipedia and does not acknowledge it. Online a few people have pointed out big holes in this story. Small ones, like the Organizer IIXP did not have a backlight: no Organizer model had a backlight, nor did the MC or the Series 3 or 3A. No mention of the Odin or Crystal phones. https://www.oocities.org/epoc_32/odin https://www.oocities.org/epoc_32/odin No mention of the RIM lawsuit (the Canadians though they'd invented email on the move.) No mention of Charles Davies, employee #1. https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/25/charles_davies/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/25/charles_davies/ https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102702098 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10270209... No mention of Psion Xchange running on other 68000 OSes as well as QDOS, and on MS-DOS. Little mention of the award-winning Psion games and some of the superstar developers.

BirAdam 2y ago
Author here. I don’t use Wikipedia at all. Generally, I read old magazines, books, and occasionally old websites in the Wayback machine when I can’t find other stuff. I then write. I don’t make citations as my work is meant to be neither authoritative nor academic. I research and write for my own enjoyment. As for Davies, I didn’t bring him up because I didn’t have a ton of material on him. For Xchange, I again didn’t have a ton of material. For the games, that early period wasn’t my focus. I really wanted to read/write about their mobile hardware. Now, for the backlight part, I will need to make a correction to my work. I recall reading it was present, but I was clearly wrong. Edit: as for CPU, covered that on my site already: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/mips-for-the-masses https://www.abortretry.fail/p/mips-for-the-masses Edit 2: also, honestly, writing about anything in the UK is somewhat more challenging. I grew up in the USA. Unless people present did interviews I can find, or if I can find books/magazines about it… I won’t have much to go on as I’ll not have experienced it.
- lproven 2y ago
  Thanks for replying! May I suggest publishing some kind of contact info? I have gone far out of my way to try to contact you with corrections before, including doing WHOIS requests on your domains, emailing `abuse@` as a common catch-all address, and so on, with no success. Citations are one thing, but "more info..." links are good.

BirAdam 2y ago

Author here. I don’t use Wikipedia at all. Generally, I read old magazines, books, and occasionally old websites in the Wayback machine when I can’t find other stuff. I then write. I don’t make citations as my work is meant to be neither authoritative nor academic. I research and write for my own enjoyment. As for Davies, I didn’t bring him up because I didn’t have a ton of material on him. For Xchange, I again didn’t have a ton of material. For the games, that early period wasn’t my focus. I really wanted to read/write about their mobile hardware. Now, for the backlight part, I will need to make a correction to my work. I recall reading it was present, but I was clearly wrong. Edit: as for CPU, covered that on my site already: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/mips-for-the-masses https://www.abortretry.fail/p/mips-for-the-masses Edit 2: also, honestly, writing about anything in the UK is somewhat more challenging. I grew up in the USA. Unless people present did interviews I can find, or if I can find books/magazines about it… I won’t have much to go on as I’ll not have experienced it.

lproven 2y ago
Thanks for replying! May I suggest publishing some kind of contact info? I have gone far out of my way to try to contact you with corrections before, including doing WHOIS requests on your domains, emailing `abuse@` as a common catch-all address, and so on, with no success. Citations are one thing, but "more info..." links are good.