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	Podcast:		Vintage Mac Video
	Episode:		Newton Reconsidered After Twenty Years
	Category:		Society & Culture
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	Publish Date:		2012-06-02 08:49:03
	Description:		In the grand scheme of things, 1992 is such recent history that it barely qualifies as history. When it comes to portable gadgets, however, it?s an era that?s nearly unrecognizable to we 21st- century humans. Sure, there were pocketable gizmos back then: The Game Boy, for instance, had been around since 1989, and the Sony Watchman was hot stuff. There were even miniature computers, such as HP?s 95LX. But in 1992, nobody had an MP3 player. Or a GPS handheld. Or a smartphone. (Less than five percent of people in North America had a mobile phone, period.) And in 1992, nobody had a PDA. That?s Personal Digital Assistant, in case you?ve forgotten, and even though nobody had one, lots of people were talking about them. Apple CEO John Sculley had coined the term in the keynote speech he made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 7. He announced that Apple would release PDAs?pocket-sized information devices, easier to use than a PC and selling for under $1000?in 1993.
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