What the organisation contributed
The Computer History Museum describes it as the first smartphone, while also noting its commercial failure and severe battery and cost limits.
Why it mattered
Reduces place-bound access and the need for separate tools by combining networked communication, capture, sensing, computation and personal identity in one portable platform.
Where this fits in ITEM
Sources and further reading
- About the Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum · Computer History Museum
- Computers and Games: A Love Story
Computer History Museum · Computer History Museum
- Playing History with Games: Steps toward Historical Archives of Computer Gaming
Henry Lowood · Computer History Museum Software Preservation Group · 2004
- 1947: Invention of the Point-Contact Transistor
Computer History Museum · 1947
- 1956: First Commercial Hard Disk Drive Shipped
Computer History Museum · 1956
- A compiler does not teach the computer human language. It translates one exact formal world into another, and the civilisation built on software depends on that translation being right
- Analytical Engine plans
Computer History Museum
- Assembling the Integrated Data Store (IDS)
Computer History Museum
- Audrey, Alexa, Hal, and More
Computer History Museum · 1952
- Bringing a New Voice to Genius—MITalk, the CallText 5010, and Stephen Hawking's Wheelchair
Computer History Museum
- Calculators collection
Computer History Museum
- Charles W. Bachman
Computer History Museum
- Digital Machines
Computer History Museum
- ERA Magnetic Storage Systems
Computer History Museum
- First COBOL compilers
Computer History Museum
- History of FORTRAN paper
Computer History Museum
- IBM/BellSouth Simon Personal Communicator
Computer History Museum
- Internet History of the 1960s
Computer History Museum · 1960
- Interview of Donald Davies
Computer History Museum
- Inventing the Transistor
Computer History Museum
- Leibniz and Curta
Computer History Museum
- Magnetic Drums
Computer History Museum
- Magnetic Tape
Computer History Museum
- Many People, One System and early time-sharing communication
Computer History Museum
- Memory & Storage: Timeline of Computer History
Computer History Museum
- Memory: Selling the Computer Revolution
Computer History Museum
- Phones Get Smart
Computer History Museum
- RDBMS Plenary 1: Early Years
Computer History Museum
- saving data
- Schickard and Pascaline
Computer History Museum
- Software and Languages timeline
Computer History Museum
- Texting: Instant, But Not Simultaneous
Computer History Museum
- The Storage Engine: A Timeline of Milestones in Storage Technology
Computer History Museum
- The Virtues of Sharing
Computer History Museum
- Thomas Arithmometer
Computer History Museum
- Timesharing as a Business
Computer History Museum
- Timesharing: PDP-1 Restoration Project
Computer History Museum
- Z3
Computer History Museum