My Apple Newton

  A while ago, a documentary called "Love Notes to Newton" was produced.  It looks fantastic.  Big shout out to Noah Leon. It's been released to Youtube .  Check it out!

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2024/04/love-notes-to-newton-on-youtube.html

It's been 30 years already, and Ars Technica have written a retrospective . These days my Newton MP2100 has been replaced by a Samsung Galaxy Note, and the integration with telephony, email, ...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2022/06/apple-newton-celebrates-its-30th.html

Well, well, well! AppleNewtonFan has produced a cable for connecting your Newton to a Mac or PC, that removes the need for adapters.  It uses an FTDI chip. Available for GBP 25 + P&P.  ...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2021/04/fan-creates-new-usb-newton-cable-no.html

  Impressive!

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2021/04/newton-friendly-search-site-launched.html

  I came across this retrospective from Time magazine by Harry McCracken about the Newton shortly after the 20th anniversary of its initial launch.  Being eight years old, I thought it mig...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2020/11/newton-reconsidered.html

I just watched the Apple Scribble demo.  It felt a little like the Newton on steroids:

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2020/06/apple-scribble-newton-hwr-support-on.html

After 22 years, is the Newton back from the dead? > The iPad , > with iPadOS, is receiving a great deal of the new features found on > iOS 14, along with some additions...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2020/06/is-newton-back-from-dead.html

There are increasingly frequent mentions that Apple is going to use ARM chips on its MacOS platform after having been with Intel for some years now. Apple's relationship with ARM goes back...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2020/06/back-to-future-apple-returns-to-arm.html

Newton users are continuing to find innovative mays to adapt the technology to modern environments. Currently Hiroshi's WiFi implementation only supports WEP, an encryption standard that is...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2020/05/newton-honk-goes-wifi-using-wpa-on.html

MAN:  Over on Verge Tom Warren observes that the iPad has evolved toward the Microsoft Surface.  You could also argue that it has circled back toward the Newton.  The Newton MP2x00 had a st...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2020/03/apple-finally-admits-microsoft-was.html

Larry Tesler (1945-2020) Sadly, My Apple Newton has heard that Larry Tesler died on Monday 17 February 2020, aged 74. Larry was a key contributor to the development of the Apple Newton, an...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2020/02/larry-tesler-1945-2020-sadly-my-apple.html

Five Speed Software developed the famous Dashboard application that transforms the Newton's button bar and puts it on steroids! It consistently makes it on everyone's top ten Newton softwar...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2019/07/five-speed-software-is-now-free.html

One of the reasons why I was so enthusiastic about the Apple Newton was its ability to support interacting with it using its touchscreen, stylus and handwriting recognition. I spend a lot ...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2019/05/using-microsoft-dictation-in-microsoft.html

Hats off to Igor Bertolucci who has managed to build a smaller Newton MP2000! A fantastic hardware project. Here's the detail in his own words via Newtontalk: I recently tweeted about m...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-incredible-shrinking-newton.html

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2012/02/christchurch-earthquake-memorial.html

How ironic...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/10/times-have-changed.html

Steve Wozniak This post on NewtonTalk warms the heart... I'm at the Splunk .conf18 conference and Woz is a keynote speaker. He got on AI, and sang a beautiful sonnet to the Newton. He sai...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/10/woz-warms-our-hearts.html

Christoph Schroder has launched a great looking Newton fan site called Newtonhonk. It's a place where you can share your Newton story and a picture of your Newton(s). Check it out

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/09/share-your-newton-story-at-newtonhonk.html

Apparently, a bot from a copyright troll has advised 4Shared that the Newton Software and Documentation uploaded there infringes someone's copyright. After approaching 4Shared, they say t...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/08/newton-software-and-documentation.html

The Newton MessagePad is simultaneously one of Apple’s biggest flops and one of the company’s most underrated products. A series of PDA devices available during the 1990s, today Newton...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/07/cult-of-mac-reviews-love-notes-to-newton.html

After a tantalizing and impressive trailer and a long anticipation building wait, "Love Notes to Newton" is set to premier at MacStock Conference and Expo on July 22 ! Following the premier...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/07/love-notes-to-newton-to-premier-at.html

Steve Weyer recently released his Newton web browser, Newtscape as freeware. The Internet and the World Wide Web in particular, has changed a lot since Newton was discontinued in 1998. Back...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/04/browsing-with-newtscape-text-only-is.html

The original Newton Development Environment produced by Apple was called Newton Toolkit.  It required you to write your apps on a PC or Mac and then send them to the Newton for testing. ...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/04/steve-weyer-releases-newtdevenv-as.html

Newt's Cape is a Newton Book creation tool and a web browser, written by prolific Newton developer Steve Weyer.   He has kindly released a freeware version (v2.1e2) of this once-popular a...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/04/steve-weyer-makes-newtscape-freeware.html

I've always admired Microsoft's Windows Phone.  In many respects it paralleled the Apple Newton story: A portable device with an innovative and applauded user interface Despite herculean ...

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2018/04/terry-myerson-looks-back-on-windows.html