Morgan Aldridge
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️Some light #retroComputing reading arrived for the long weekend..
Grant HutchinsonHere’s a little tidbit from my #AppleNewton collection.
(As requested by @haineux, @stack, and @Eggfreckles)
This is a Newton “Dummy” Product for use as part of retail display.
I’ve had this item for years and thought I’d photographed it, but the box had never been opened.
@csilverman @likesoldmacs @morgant @splorp I've only just found out about the #Newton Defying Gravity book and have immediately ordered a copy!
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.
Since the last month’s update, another 63 terms and 5 sources have been added.
Latest additions:
https://newtonglossary.com/latest
Full release notes:
@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.”
@likesoldmacs @csilverman crumbs, like #appleNewton big brother
NewtonTalkTwenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped its Newton Toolkit development tool for Windows. “[It] gives developers the platform independence they desire.”
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.”