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13. Newton was a PDA not a tablet...

Reply to WiffenPoof (Reply #11)

Thu Jun 21, 2012, 10:07 AM

Jun 2012

and it was not the first of its kind:

The first PDA was released in 1986 by Psion, the Organizer II.
Psion's then released the Series 3, in 1991.

I'm not hating on Apple, just correcting your misinformation.

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