Ferranti MRT
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ferranti-mrt-312-5771737
title:
Ferranti MRT
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The Ferranti Market Research Terminal (MRT) was, arguably, the world’s first application-specific handheld computer. It was designed specifically for the market research sector as a means to augment the regular clipboard schemes that, at the time, were common-place, in social and market research. Despite having an appearance of a calculator built into a clipboard, the reality was that the unit contained a sophisticated form of programmable data-logger that, in response to an interviewer reading
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encyclopedia
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Application-specific handheld computer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_MRT
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date modified:
2020-10-23T10:48:33Z
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