Template:Did you know nominations/Jonos

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 17:16, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Jonos

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Jonos Escort

... that Jonos International beat Sony to market with a computer featuring Sony's own 3.5-inch floppy disk drives? Source: "Sony offers new micro" ; "Sony Communications Products Co. SMC-70 ... Date First Installed: September 1982 ; "Jonos Ltd. Jonos 2100 ... Date First Installed: June 1982" ; "first delivery June 1982 for C2100"
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Ragle

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 21:58, 4 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Jonos; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited: - The sourcing is based on comparing multiple sources and I'm not entirely sure this falls under the allowed use of WP:SYNTH.
Interesting:
Other problems: - Consider linking to 3.5-inch floppy disk, as there may be readers who were too young to experience them.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Will ask for some outside opinions first on the SYNTH issue, but I think finding a backup hook is a good idea. Sounder Bruce 06:20, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

@SounderBruce: Yeah I was worried there might be SYNTH issues with that hook. How about:

ALT1: ...that Jonos International offered Gucci carying cases with their Escort portable computers (pictured) in 1982?

DigitalIceAge (talk) 07:45, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
- @DigitalIceAge: I was unable to find the Gucci listing in the Popular Science source. Is there another one available? Sounder Bruce 07:57, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
  - @SounderBruce: My bad, I put in the wrong reference after that sentence. The relevant source is InfoWorld, now cited after that sentence. DigitalIceAge (talk) 08:04, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
    - ALT1 is good to go; honestly it's more entertaining than the original, especially when juxtaposed with the image. Sounder Bruce 08:07, 31 January 2024 (UTC)