Welcome to the personal home page of Brian K. Holman. The picture to the right represents the evolution of computing from the abacus, one of the first recognized computing devices, to the modern Palm hand-held digital computer.

I have been an early adopter of portable computing devices from the Tandy Model 102 in the eighties to the Apple Newton in the early nineties. More recently, I have also been a big user of the Palm PDAs and their wireless modem attachments for Internet access.

Laptops, PDAs and other portable computing devices are now common place in business and education. However, when I was a college freshman in the fall of 1988, people thought I was from another planet when I ditched the yellow legal pad for my Tandy portable during world history lectures. Needless to say, I could type around 100 words a minutes and was able to capture a lot more than I would have with a pen. I think I did fairly well in the class and I had peer's soliciting for a copy of my notes :-)

I have now seen the culmination of all of these clunky portable devices I have put up with all these years. The Handspring Treo is a cross between a Palm PDA, a Cell Phone, and a Blackberry E-mail Device in the most compact and functional design possible—a true convergence! I'm waiting for the color version that will be available in mid-2002. Check it out.

To see some family pictures click here! (Use the "VCR buttons" to view the next picture. Click on the picture for more detail.)

Refer to the common left channel links for navigating the site. Whenever you want to return to the home page, simply click on the site logo in the upper left corner of each page. Enjoy!