EO
The EO was an early commercial tablet computer created by AT&T, released in April 1993. Officially named the AT&T EO Personal Communicator it was more similar to a large personal digital assistant, and competed against the Apple Newton. The unit was produced in conjunction with the Matsushita, Olivetti and Marubeni corporations.Among the EO customers AT&T claimed were: The New York Stock Exchange, Andersen Consulting, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, FD Titus & Sons and Woolworths.
EO, Inc., 52 percent owned by AT&T, shut down operations on July 29, 1994 after failing to secure the funding to continue.
Both were powered by the AT&T 92K Hobbit chip, created by AT&T specifically for PDAs. They also contained a host of I/O ports - modem, parallel, serial, VGA out and SCSI. Perhaps the most interesting part was the OS - PenPoint OS from Go Corporation. Widely praised for its simplicity and ease of use, the OS never gained widespread use.
EO also stands for Evangelische Omroep, a radio and TV broadcaster in The NetherlandsHardware specifics
Two models, the Communicator 440 and 880 were produced and measured about the size of a clipboard.External link