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