It WAS a PDA. Sure it wasn’t a PDA with a touch screen but it WAS a PDA, and it WAS the first, and trying to say it isn’t is just more of you LYING.
It didn’t have to be a fully capable computer. to be the first PDA something only has to be a Personal Digital Assistant, and that IS what a pocket organizer is.
The only anybody doing any stretching is you. Trying to find some way to make Apple first. They weren’t, they never are. Those are the facts. And none of your pathetic lies change the facts.
Oh and spiral bound notebooks aren’t digital, and one would have to be a deliberately obtuse liar to say it was.
It was a business oriented ADDRESS BOOK, with calculator capabilities, nothing more! Without a calendar, or a reminder system, it cannot be consider to be a "personal assistant" device. there were other similar devices. It's ONLY claim to fame was its portability. . . within a year, there were a lot of portable organizers, some smaller. They were not anything like what Apple made with the Newton. . . a programable device with a touch screen that you could interface with with learnable handwriting! A "personal" digital assistant that had the capability to REMIND you of something in real time, or to warn you about an upcoming event