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Ok, I', not that young but WTF is a "palmtop" and when did such a thing exist?

• hayksaakian 12y ago
  like "lap top" but it goes on top of the palm of your hand (at least that's my revisionist version)
• deleted 12y ago
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• delsarto 12y ago
  When I wrote this, I'm not sure if the iPhone had been released; certainly at that point if you were carrying around something computer-like in your (large :) pocket (more powerful than a PalmPilot) it was something like a Jornada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jornada_(PDA) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jornada_(PDA) This sort of form-factor came directly out of things calld "palmtop pc's" like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX
  • tesseract 12y ago
    To me "palmtop" strongly connotes something handheld, with a clamshell or a slide-out keyboard, and running a desktop-style OS. That HP 95LX is a good example; the OQO was a more recent one (2005 ish?). A device with a similar form factor but running a mobile OS would have been called a "MID" (mobile internet device) or possibly a tablet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet for example.
• esrauch 12y ago
  Palmtop is typically used interchangeably with PDA.
• dTal 12y ago
  How about an IBM PC-110? http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/pc110idx.htm http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/pc110idx.htm