PADD
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In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Personal Access Display Device is a hand-held LCARS-based computerized device resembling a PDA which provides wireless access to the main computers, other portable devices, or data stored on isolinear chips.
The standard small Starfleet-issue PADD is a gray ten by fifteen by one centimeter rectangle complete with two isolinear read/write drives, a subspace radio transceiver, a micro power generator, and a display/input screen of approximately eight by five cm. PADDs are produced in a variety of dimensions to accommodate panels of varying size.
The PADD is sometimes claimed to have inspired the design of the PDA. However, the first PADDs (seen in "original Star Trek" in 1966, but not referenced as such) look and work more like the Tablet PC. Also, modern PADD was seen in "Encounter at Farpoint" in 1987, while the first flat calculator-like PDA was in 1978.
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