Dr David Potter retired yesterday and stood down from his role at Psion Teklogic. In my opinion, he was the man who really started the PDA industry and without him the industry would look very different today. PDA-247 would certainly never have existed and I suspect that is true for many other sites as well.
As AAS points out, he started Psion with £70,000 of his own money in 1980 and the company eventually produced PDAs which many people still use every day. AAS also points to a lengthy article at The Register which details the history of Psion in every detail. Finally, Steve Litchfield wrote a definitive history of Psion over at 3-Lib which tells you everything else you need to know.
Thanks for everything David!
Great man with a great team. How many people know that the Tom Tom team are also ex-Psion? And look at the success of Symbian, powering over 50% of all Smartphones. 10 years on I have still found a mobile computer with a better design than the Psion 5.
Chris Love who started Clove is also ex-Psion.