If you’d asked me last week, I might have said that Psion skipped the Psion 2. The original Psion Organiser is in the shape of a brick with an ABC keyboard - certainly a computer, and portable, but not much like the Psion 3 which is a palmtop with a QWERTY.
But it turns out there was an HC series, which not only introduced the EPOC operating system and the OPL programming language, but also had a command line. But it was still in the form factor of a brick and with an ABC keyboard, and could withstand three-foot drops onto concrete.
Hi everyone! nice post! I have one of these bricks with keyboard, I believe that isn’t the missing link between 1 and 3, but it’s one of the same family that mentioned in the article.
Not really, it has a menu with several options that sadly isn’t including any shell. The option that could be used as a kind of shell, is the PROG option that it’s used to program your own programs using Psion OPL language. You can create, list, edit and remove them from the mentioned menu. If you want taste the menu and their options I have found an online emulator that have several configurations to play Jape - Javascript Psion Emulator - Jaap's Psion II Page
Apologies for reviving this old topic, but my Google search for Psion HC info brought me here…
I’ve just acquired an HC120 (thanks eBay!) as part of the MC400 emulator project that started over on the Stardot forums (poking around in the HC and original Series3 ROMs as they share a common architecture with the MC).
