e53 – The Newton

This episode, we look at the Newton platform — Apple's first attempt at (almost) handheld computing. Recorded on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone announcement, we notice a lot of parallels between the development of Newton devices and the iOS devices we carry today.

Stocking stuffer followup

• Cancel/Save notepad
• elago W3 stand
  • 512 Pixels video review
  • buy on Amazon

Newton

• Low End Mac: The Story Behind Apple’s Newton
• Jean-Louis Gassée
• Steve Sakoman
• Isaac Newton's "Apple incident"
• Be Inc.
• Knowledge Navigator
• AT&T Hobbit processors
• PCMCIA
• List of Newton models

every Newton model

Newtons and clone

Newton keyboard

PCMCIA expansion

• the competition: Palm
  • Handspring Visor
  • Ed's Palm PDAs: Vx, TX
  • WebOS
• pop culture references
  • "Eat Up Martha"
  • Doonesbury "Egg Freckles" etc.
• Newton enthusiasts
  • Thomas Brand
  • Einstein emulator
• NewtonScript
• Soup filesystem 🛎