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"The units looked less like PDAs and more like something a police officer might clock your blood alcohol level with."

That's actually not that a million miles from reality - from what I recall these were designed more for data gathering than as a PDA. We were using when I was working in the hospital in the late 90s for stock control - they had barcode readers and were as rugged as the brick they were styled upon, meaning they could be used in warehouses and operated by the least technically literate staff you could possibly put on inventory duty (hence the non-QWERTY keypad). When I left the hospital for more interesting employment they were 12 years old and still going strong.]]>Aug 18th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/http://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/Aug 22nd 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/http://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/Jun 27th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/http://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/May 25th 2007 12:19AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/http://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/May 25th 2007 12:59AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/http://www.switched.com/2007/05/22/the-worlds-ugliest-gadgets-3/May 25th 2007 6:24AM