@csilverman @likesoldmacs @morgant @splorp I've only just found out about the #Newton Defying Gravity book and have immediately ordered a copy!

#retro #retroComputing #appleNewton

Announcing a new release of the Newton Glossary!

This edition contains over 2,090 terms, definitions, acronyms, colloquialisms, cross-references, and trivia related to the #AppleNewton.

https://newtonglossary.com/

Since the last month’s update, another 63 terms and 5 sources have been added.

Latest additions:

https://newtonglossary.com/latest

Full release notes:

https://newtonglossary.com/changes

Welcome.

An almost definitive guide to terms and trivia related to the Apple Newton.

Newton Glossary

@falken @likesoldmacs @csilverman Yeah, somewhere between the early #AppleNewton 'Cadillac' #prototype and an #eMate300 (sans keyboard), if it had been in the PowerBook color palette.

See @splorp's photos of the 'Cadillac':

https://flickr.com/photos/splorp/albums/72157623287193080/

And, Sonny Hung's:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sonnyhung/albums/72057594095135157/

Newton “Cadillac” Prototype

A functioning prototype of the larger, tablet-style Newton. Sonny Hung also has images of the OS running on this device in this set. This item is part of a collection obtained from Russ Uzes, October 2004. Russ originally purchased it on eBay from a company called Mac-Pro Systems. When asked about the device’s history, they told him … “We just found the Cadillac in a box of stuff in the office. We have no idea where it came from.”

Flickr

Twenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped its Newton Toolkit development tool for Windows. “[It] gives developers the platform independence they desire.”

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing
#NewtonScript

https://web.archive.org/web/19990203180056/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970326.pr.rel.nwtoolkit.html

Apple Ships Newton Toolkit for Windows 1.6

Apple Computer, Inc. today announced the availability of Newton Toolkit for Windows 1.6, an object-oriented development tool that enables Windows programmers to develop software for Newton OS-based mobile computers, including the new MessagePad 2000.

Twenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped the #MessagePad 2000, billed as “ … a mobile computer for the business professional and one of the fastest handheld Internet computers on the market.”

#AppleNewton
#RetroComptuting
#StrongARMForever

https://web.archive.org/web/20030416030729/http://www.apple.com/pr/library/1997/q2/970324.pr.rel.msgpad.html

Apple Ships MessagePad 2000

Apple Ships MessagePad 2000, a Complete Handheld Computer for the Mobile Business Professional

Gonna bring my #appleNewton to @oggcamp

Anyone else in #uk got one to bring ? We can beam like it's 1996 ...

#geek #retro #retroComputing #newton #newtonos #oggCamp #oggCamp2026 #messagePad

It’s times like this that require me to remind people that there’s a variation of Bad Apple playing on an #AppleNewton device.

https://youtu.be/8GMICftzmRQ

Bad Apple on the Apple Newton! Better version

YouTube

Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19981205071558/http://product.info.apple.com:80/pr/press.releases/1996/q2/960314.pr.rel.msgpad130.html

Apple Announces the MessagePad 130 With Backlit Screen

Apple Announces the MessagePad 130 With Backlit Screen