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.”
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️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
Grant HutchinsonIt’s times like this that require me to remind people that there’s a variation of Bad Apple playing on an #AppleNewton device.
Bad Apple on the Apple Newton! Better version
Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.
Twenty nine years ago today, Apple introduced the eMate 300 … in all of its translucent clamshell glory.
#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing
#ItsNotEasyBeingGreen
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/messagepad/stats/emate_300.html
Twenty eight years ago today, Apple discontinued development of #NewtonOS and its related hardware products.
Yet, here we are.
#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing
#BleedingGreen
https://web.archive.org/web/20040528183253/http://www.apple.com/pr/library/1998/feb/27newton.html
@AncTreat5358 Speaking from over three decades of experience, the #AppleNewton is still beloved, supported, and being developed for. Check out the mailing list and see.
@tantramar @harold If I had built this database, it wouldn’t be nearly as big of a challenge. This is a mostly German language database of #AppleNewton resources created by Apple GmbH in 1995. Password protected, of course.