PDA Developers – Volume 2.6 – Nov/Dec 1994
PDA Developers, originally PIE Developers, was the premier, independent printed resource for mobile developers in the mid-to-late 1990s. Billing itself as “A Technical Journal for PDA Developers,” each issue contained detailed articles, tutorials, and coding examples covering all major handheld platforms.
Published by San Francisco-based Creative Digital Systems, the journal was expertly managed and edited by Steve Mann (who also wrote a number of articles in each issue).
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Artifact Details
Creative Digital, Inc.
United States
English
November, 1994
$10.95 US, $11.95 Canada
Saddled-stitched printed journal on cream-colored paper.
In this issue:
- Once More into the Breach
- PDA News
- Wireless Watch
- Reviews and Previews (Sony's Magic Link: First Impressions)
- Graffiti Technology Overview
- ScriptLink Developer's Kit
- The Basics About NS Basic
- Photonics' Cooperative Transceiver
- Popular PSIONs
- PSION Series 3 Software Development
- An Introduction to GEOS
- Wireless Data Services: Here and Now
- An Introduction to the IrDA Protocols
- Unsafe at Any Speed: Newton Hacking
- Warp Speed in OPL
- Advanced Newton Media Types
8.5" x 11" (50 pages)
PDA Developers 2.6
November, 1994
Acquired from publisher
2018-07-24
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This issue of the bimonthly technical journal PDA Developers, Volume 2.6, was dated November 1994 and was the first published under the PDA Developers title, which had read PIE Developers through the previous issue.1 The cover billed the publication as "A Technical Journal for PDA Developers (formerly PIE Developers)," noting the rename while the volume numbering ran on unbroken.1 The immediately preceding issue, Volume 2.5 of September 1994, still carried the PIE Developers masthead, confirming that Volume 2.6 was the point at which the title changed.2
The journal was produced by Creative Digital Systems of San Francisco, whose imprint ran across the foot of the back cover beneath the house line "All good stuff, no fluff."3
The issue's editorial contents, grouped on the cover under the banner "Tons of PDA Development," covered the Psion 3a, the GEOS environment, IrDA universal infrared protocols, wireless services, Newton hacking, OPL event queuing, and advanced Newton media.1 A separate "Previews and Reviews" section surveyed Sony's Magic Link, Graffiti, ScriptLink, NS Basic, and Photonics IR.1
The back cover carried a full-page advertisement for ScriptLink, a Newton connectivity product promoted under the line "Connecting the Newton to the world."3
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Footnotes
- Creative Digital Systems, PDA Developers - Volume 2.6 - Nov/Dec 1994 (image scan), November 1994
- Creative Digital Systems, PIE Developers - Volume 2.5 - September, 1994 (image scan), September 1994
- Creative Digital Systems, PDA Developers - Volume 2.6 - Nov/Dec 1994 (image scan), November 1994
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