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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Marking the 30th anniversary month of the launch of Apple's Newton MessagePad, the full, feature length "Love Notes to Newton" has been released on YouTube for free.

Make fun of Apple's Newton MessagePad all you want, but the proto-PDA introduced by Apple in the early 90s managed to gather some rather tenacious followers. Current users of the then ...

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 ...

Eric Schneck has released a free iTunes plug-in that allows Newton MessagePad owners to transfer up to 64MB of MP3 files to their Newton from within iTunes and play MP3s on the Newton using the MAD ...