Grant Hutchinson
anders dSearching for a camera battery charger, might as well peek in the small computing friends tub #applenewton #messagepad
@Luke @paperposts The smarter choice was using a supercapacitor, like Apple did with the #MessagePad 2x00 and #eMate series #Newton devices. It would hold clock related data for ages if you removed the main power or battery. Of course, user and system setting were stored in flash RAM, so you never lost that.
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@DosFox/116364875603363574
My other computer is an #AppleNewton #MessagePad
Morgan Aldridge
NewtonTalkTwenty 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.”
Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.
Just arrived from Japan!
I hope the floppy still works.
Thirty one years ago today, Apple announced the availability of the Newton #MessagePad 120, with “enhanced features.”
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
RE: https://mastodon.social/@256/115894778804896010
Where's the #AppleNewton #MessagePad?! I know everyone calls it a failure, but where would the Palm, iPhone, or iPad have existed without it?