But in using my MessagePad MP100 — which actually works, though it’s 20 years old — I see a lot of what we take for granted today. The MessagePad’s icon row at bottom lives on as the Dock ...

Jared Earle Newton MessagePad 120 But as with most Apple products, raw technical specs weren’t what drew users to the Newton platform. Instead, it was the pen-based touchscreen interface that ...

Newton MessagePad 1 Articles . Giving WiFi To An Apple Newton. February 9, 2016 by Brian Benchoff 23 Comments . The Apple Newton gets a bad rap, partly because of the bad handwriting recognition ...

The company would announce it the following year, and the first product in the Newton Line, the MessagePad 100 1 went on sale twenty years ago this week in August of 1993. It was Apple’s ...

But by that time the Newton was gone, disappeared by Jobs’ product line cuts. But a bit of his DNA still lives on: when you drag an item out of the dock in OSX dock you see a puff of smoke.

For those unfamiliar, Newton MessagePad was a personal digital assistant released by Apple in 1993. The device was controlled by a stylus and had handwriting recognition capabilities to let users ...

The Newton MessagePad 100 was a precursor to the iPhone, you could say. Released back in August 1993, it was revolutionary in so many ways, from the operating system to the touch screen.

While other Newton aficionados trudge along with old PCMCIA WiFi cards that only support 802.11a without WPA2, [Jake] thought it would be possible to build a modern WiFi card for the Newton.

Apple Inc, which helped spawn the PDA market with its Newton MessagePad line in the early '90s, plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old fan favorite based ...

NewTen provides Newton connectivity for Mac OS X. It allows you to install packages on a Newton MessagePad from a Mac OS X computer over a serial connection, without having to use any Classic ...