An Acorn PocketBook II got me through school!
I was lucky enough to have the re-branded Psion 3a in the form of an Acorn PocketBook II. It was basically a 3a but with extra apps like a graphing calculator and I think it had more internal memory too, 2MB if I recall correctly.
I wrote most of my GCSE coursework on it back in the 90s and even did some A-level stuff. Hell I learned to program on that thing. I used to drop it quite a lot and the batteries would come flying out - but it never broke substantially - and it still works now. There was even a thriving application market for the Psion devices. There was some guy here in the UK called Litchfield who would collect all the shareware software up and send it to you on floppies if you paid him a small fee. All that in a package an almost penniless teenager could afford. Happy days.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
