Psion organisers

The Psion Organiser was the brand name of a range of personal digital assistants developed by the British company Psion in the 1980's

Early Psions are very robust (as witnessed by tech support people who were able to retrieve data from machines run over by cars and even forklift trucks) and they have been sold in very large numbers (about a million). Some continue to be used commercially, although the firmware of the two-line models fails to acknowledge dates after the end of 1999.

The name "Organiser" was not used for later Psion handhelds, such as the "SIBO" family Psion Series 3 and the 32-bit Psion Series 5 machines which were of a clamshell design with a QWERTY keyboard. In terms of hardware architecture and operating system had no links to the earlier "Organiser" range, other than the end user programming language which shared a great deal of structure with OPL.

Production of consumer handhelds by Psion has now ceased; the company, after corporate changes, now concentrates on hardware and software for industrial and commercial data collection applications.

From: wikipedia

  Brand/model Type Prog. model Display Memory
Organiser: Psion Organiser IOrganiser IOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
1×16 characters
2 kB (2 kB)
Organiser: Psion Organiser II CMOrganiser II CMOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
1×16 characters
8 kB (8 kB)
Organiser: Psion Organiser II LZOrganiser II LZOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
4×20 characters
32 kB (32 kB)
Organiser: Psion Organiser II LZ 64Organiser II LZ 64OrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
4×20 characters
64 kB (64 kB)
Organiser: Psion Organiser II XPOrganiser II XPOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
2×16 characters
8 kB (8 kB)
Organiser: Psion RevoRevoOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
480×160 pixels
8 MB (8 MB)
Organiser: Psion Series 3Series 3OrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
240×80 pixels
128 kB (128 kB)
Organiser: Psion Series 3aSeries 3aOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
480×160 pixels
256 kB (256 kB)
Organiser: Psion Series 3cSeries 3cOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
640×240 pixels
1 MB (1 MB)
Organiser: Psion Series 3mxSeries 3mxOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
640×240 pixels
1 MB (1 MB)
Organiser: Psion Series 5Series 5OrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
640×240 pixels
8 MB (8 MB)
Organiser: Psion Series 5mxSeries 5mxOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
640×240 pixels
16 MB (16 MB)
Organiser: Psion SienaSienaOrganiserOPL (Organiser Programming Language)LCD
240×160 pixels
1 MB (1 MB)
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beetje eng hoor, al die rekenmachines ;-)
broeder
December 26th, 2007