SJ squashes rumors of iPhone and Apple PDA

[stompy]

Originally posted by pyrotoaster
I wouldn't let the whole "Year of the _____" rule your speculation.

If we're so rigid about the "Year of the Portable/Laptop" deal, we can't have any new desktops (sorry IBM!).

Sure, we'll see some cool new laptop stuff, but we're going to see a lot of other stuff, too.

Sorry if my post wasn't completely clear. I agree that everyone has made mountains out of SJ's 'year of' line--notice the 'infamous' in my post. I was pointing out the absurdity of speculation based the choice of the word 'portable' rather than 'laptop.'

The quote was a throwaway tagline, not a product strategy.

 

[eric_n_dfw]

Originally posted by xDANx
zenith's solution for storage was to make giant 9 or 10 inch floppies (i'm not sure of the exact size)...the disk drive was as big as the computer.

They were probably 8" - a somewhate popular format back "in the day"

I remember the typesetter machine at the Kwik Kopy that my mom worked at has a dual 8" floppy drive. High tech for the time!

BTW, American Airlines' automated ticket machines from the 80's ran on NCR hardware (CPM OS I believe) with a pair of 8" floppy drives and no hard drive all the way up to the mid 90's!!!