Universal Pocket Computer

[Music] [Music] today everybody carries a computer around in their pocket in fact my iphone here has about the same computational power as a cray supercomputer would have had back in the 1980s it's really hard to believe actually of course pocket size computers have been around for a while if we go back to 1996 a few notable devices entered the market such as the us robotics pilot now this is the original model before it was renamed to palm pilot now at first you might question whether this was really a computer or just a personal digital assistant or pda but it did have the ability to load in new applications so i say it qualifies of course the pilot was almost useless without the dock which you would have to connect to your personal computer in order to transfer information or even new applications to it also of course you couldn't program the computer on the computer software develop