Happy Birthday, PDA
Source: Startribune
In 1992, Apple Computer's then-CEO John Sculley wowed the crowd at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago with a hand-held computer called the Newton.
Call it the birth of the PDA, short for personal digital assistant.
Sculley even coined the term. In his vision, the device wouldn't be just a shrunken computer but an intelligent, communications-equipped, pint-sized, portable assistant for relieving the drudgery of organizing modern life. Scribble a note such as "Jane lunch at noon," and the PDA would deduce that Jane is your wife, place the lunch date on your calendar and fax or e-mail her a reminder, based on information in an address book.
A decade later, we're still waiting for PDAs to match the hype.
