{"id":290,"date":"2008-08-02T19:22:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2009-05-17T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T18:44:33","slug":"a-netbook-ahead-of-its-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"A netbook ahead of it’s time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Psion<\/a>
\nI had assumed that “netbook” was a recent term that grew out of the evolution of UMPCs, MIDs, origami<\/a> and EEE PC clones. And in my defence, the wikipedia article for “Netbook”<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

The term netbook was introduced by Intel in February 2008 to describe a category of small-sized, low-cost, light weight, lean function subnotebooks optimized for Internet access and core computing functions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t realise that the term has been around for a while though, until I came across an eight or nine year old bit of mobile tech history in Roo’s old office<\/a> – a Psion Netbook. <\/p>\n

\"Netbooks:<\/a>I’ve had a couple of Psions before (a Siena and a Series 5), but I’d never heard of the Netbook before. <\/p>\n

It’s a similar size to my EEE PC, although a little heavier. It has a decent-sized keyboard, a 7.7″ 640×480 colour backlit screen, Opera 3.62 (with support for HTML 3.2), a Java 1.1.8 runtime, and a bunch of PIM-type apps. No bluetooth or WiFi, but it does have RS232 and infrared. <\/p>\n

I’ve got no idea what is gonna happen to it – I will ask if I can have it, although to be honest this is largely for geek nostalgia, as I’m not sure what I’d practically do with it. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had assumed that “netbook” was a recent term that grew out of the evolution of UMPCs, MIDs, origami and EEE PC clones. And in my defence, the wikipedia article for “Netbook” says: The term netbook was introduced by Intel in February 2008 to describe a category of small-sized, low-cost, light weight, lean function subnotebooks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,15,172,253,252,16],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-asus","tag-eee","tag-eee-pc","tag-netbook","tag-psion","tag-umpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}