What was your first handheld device?

[lvt]

Back in the 90s I bought the Psion 3a (256KB of RAM) as my first real handheld device, I used to have a couple of Casio electronic organizers but this was the true pocket computer that I had before the PDA era.

Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3

What was yours?

 

[Rico ANDROID]

i fell in love with that type of device. My first was a Casio mini tv

 

[mikedt]

A Rockwell 8R, received as a Christmas present in 1975.

 

[mikedt]

Duped post due to forum error

 

[joe71]

Well technically speaking my very first hand held device was a baby rattle

 

[Dannydet]

 

[Rico ANDROID]

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[Davdi]

A transistor radio

 

[Deleted User]

A Rockwell 8R, received as a Christmas present in 1975.
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Oh that brings back memories. I remember my Dad getting this calculator for his HND course, back in the day when home computers were unheard of, and we got excited about playing Pong on a crappy little games console.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

The first one that was actually mine looked like this

One of my older cousins had one of those metal slab things that you changed numbers by pulling down with a stylus. I never could figure that thing out?

 

[Hadron]

I had one of these when I was at school:

I've actually got a slide rule in my office, but I'm too young to actually know how to use it.

My first PDA was one of these:

The Psion 3 keyboard didn't appeal to me, but I nearly bought a 5 several times...

 

[lunatic59]

My first hand held calculating device was this ...

My first hand held electronics was like this

 

[no one]

If I posted a picture, it would violate the forums decency terms.

 

[lunatic59]

If I posted a picture, it would violate the forums decency terms.

Since this thread is about devices ... I'm sorry to hear about your farming accident.

 

[lvt]

Psion 3 keyboard didn't appeal to me, but I nearly bought a 5 several times...

Why didn't you buy it?

The Serie 5 have real mechanical keyboard, just like a notebook. I like the Serie 5 but I can't justify the spending on it at that time.

 

[dan330]

Palm Pilot... was my first hand held computer

they could have been huge .. IF....

 

[Hadron]

Why didn't you buy it?

The Serie 5 have real mechanical keyboard, just like a notebook. I like the Serie 5 but I can't justify the spending on it at that time.

An interesting question. Originally because the Palm was small enough to carry in my pocket (I held off those until the V came out), whereas the 5 wasn't really. Later because I already had the Palm and wasn't sure I needed a second device. But the Psion 5 was the smallest device that had a keyboard I could bear to use, so was frequently tempting.

 

[Steven58]

 

[lvt]

How do you manage to to use Facebook and Messenger with this device?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

How do you manage to to use Facebook and Messenger with this device?

That's the Snake Phone! Everbody had one in Boston. It should qualify as the first gaming phone "But games were so much simpler then, and I was more easily amused back then, When I was young."
Apologies to The Animal's.

 

[tube517]

Can't find an exact picture but I had a pocket transistor radio in the 70s. AM/FM.

Mainly I used to listen to football and baseball games that weren't on TV. As well as music.

I'd bring it out w/me if playing outside. One of the best birthday presents I ever got.

 

[Clementine_3]

I had a little AM only radio, I taped it to the handlebars on my modern stingray bike. I was soooo cool. I found this on the big internet, it's my exact bike:

 

[dontpanicbobby]

In my Raliegh Chopper I hung a handle transistor radio from the frame
Those Stingrays were faster though...
Did you ever get a sissybar @Clementine_3?

 

[Clementine_3]

Did you ever get a sissybar @Clementine_3?

The one I had before this one was metallic purple but had no shifter, that had a sissy bar that I added. It got stolen right out of the driveway! Now that I'm thinking about it, I think the one I pictured was my older sister's and I got it after the purple one. She hardly ever rode it so it was 'like new' when I got it. So I was extra cool X's 2!!!

 

[dontpanicbobby]

You hold bikes with your hands. With Your Hands People...
We are not off topic.

I rocked a generic Radio Shack PDA before Pocket PCs came out.