anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) (06/04/91)
excerpts with permission from Electronic Engineering Times, April 15, 1991 --------------------- A flash in the handheld, by Rodger Woolnough London -- Psion U.K. plc, the British company that pioneered the handheld market with its Organiser unit, has introduced an upgraded model that uses removable flash memory to provide non-volitile solid-state storage. The company's match-book-sized solid-state disks currently store up to 1Mbyte, with 4-Mbyte units in the works. ... For its new HC lind of handheld computers, Psion has adopted a 16-bit 80C86 processor with a clock speed of 3.84 MHz, rather than the 8-bit Hitachi 6303X used in the Organiser II. Internal memory has been expanded, with 128 kbits to 512kbits of CMOS static RAM and 256kbits of internal flash for the operating system. Two internal drives accept the solid-state disks. The display has also been enlarged. Instead of the two lines of 16 characters on the Organiser II, the HC has an LCD accommodating nine lines of up to 32 characters each. There are two internal expansion slots for interface modules, such as a momdem, RS-232 and parallel communications, bar code scanner and magnetic-card reader. Built-in communication provides remote file access to PCs. -- <-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony