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		wombat-man on June 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone ... Side note: For some reason Jobs insisted it only have an optical drive instead of a hard drive. Which I'm sure many engineers advised against. Hard drive was like 2.5k extra. What a decision.

rvense on June 16, 2023 [–]

That was only the very first model. Most NeXT machines shipped with floppy and HD.

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