◄ Quote of the week: Doonesbury’s curse
Steve Jobs on the original iPhone: “We all had that Garry Trudeau cartoon that poked fun at the Newton in the back of our minds,” he said, citing Doonesbury comic strips that mocked an Apple...
View Article◄ Quote of the week: connections to the past
“Maybe the most comfortable and ultimately successful technological advances are the ones that have an umbilical cord back to what came before.” - Dave Pell at Tweetage Wasteland. What’s so great about...
View Article◄ Newton Phoenix adds links
More and more of the Newton-related web is disappearing, but Forrest Buffenmyer at Newton Phoenix is trying to keep some of it alive and well in the minds of MessagePad fans. Buffenmyer added a links...
View Article◄ Quote of the week: still around
“I was there until Steve came back and it was clear he was going to kill the project. In some ways I am sad he did, but I can see why he needed to. Apple had to focus or there would be no Apple today....
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◄ ‘Newton never dies’
Good for Riccardo Mori at System Folder: As you can see in this recent photo, a detail of my setup, the Newton MessagePad is still an essential part of my workflow. So, despite its (untimely)...
View Article◄ Newton makes ‘top of the flops’
Oh look: another “top 10 crappy tech products” list from Mashable: Although expensive and a little buggy, the touchscreen MessagePad PDAs enjoyed popularity among many Apple fans, and have since...
View Article◄ ‘The Alternatives are a Real Step Backwards’
Paul Potts, in a write-up over at Folklore.org: The Newton programming application, although flawed, gave us a taste of what software development could be – faster, more efficient, allowing us to focus...
View Article◄ Newton reviewed 20 years later
Don’t know how I missed Harry McCracken’s Newton MessagePad review over at Time.com. All in all, it’s fun experiment: take a tech journalist who has no direct experience with the Newton, and have him...
View Article◄ 20 Years Later, the Newton Lives
Head over to Wired.com for a lovely write-up on the 20-year-old Newton Community from Cade Metz: After its debut in early August 1993 — twenty years ago — the Newton was widely derided as a flawed...
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◄ Looking back at Newton packaging
Great look back at the style of Apple packaging in the early ’90s by Christopher Phin over at Macworld. For a child of the ’80s like me, that style of photography—moody, low-lit, with shafts of light...
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