NewtonTalkThirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.
Grant Hutchinson
@paulrickards Combine this with Couch Fire on your #NewtonOS device and you’re golden.
Twenty eight years ago today, Apple discontinued development of #NewtonOS and its related hardware products.
Yet, here we are.
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#RetroComputing
#BleedingGreen
https://web.archive.org/web/20040528183253/http://www.apple.com/pr/library/1998/feb/27newton.html
@AncTreat5358 The #NewtonOS platform is self contained, but can be extended via various networking, including wifi, ethernet, and Bluetooth. There’s also a multi platform emulator that’s in active development.
Just arrived from Japan!
I hope the floppy still works.
Update: I found it!
Attention #AppleNewton users … does anyone happen to have a copy of Enfour’s Japanese Newton Language Kit (NLK)?
It was made available to #MessagePad owners running the Japanese version of #NewtonOS.
Not sure if was a download of on CD. Even an exported copy of the packages would suffice.
Boosts welcome.
https://web.archive.org/web/19981206221059/http://www.enfour.co.jp/newton/news/nlk.html
Twenty nine years ago today, Qualcomm announced the availability of its Eudora Pro email client for #NewtonOS at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Qualcomm Announces Award-Winning Eudora Pro™ Email Softwarefor Apple's Newton® Operating System | Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), a leader in wireless communications and advanced electronic messaging solutions for the Internet, today announced that Eudora Pro™ email software for Apple's Newton® operating system has received the