tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-11:33024firecattiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingersfirecat (attention machine in need of calibration)2013-08-14T04:05:59Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-11:33024:779907I miss the Newton.2012-07-08T23:41:26Z2013-08-14T04:05:59Zpublic13I worked at Apple through most of the uncool non-Steve-Jobs years.* One thing I worked on was the Newton.<br /><br />A few days ago, someone bought a mint Newton off eBay and reviewed it.<br /><br /><a href="http://techland.time.com/2012/06/01/newton-reconsidered/">http://techland.time.com/2012/06/01/newton-reconsidered/</a><blockquote>20/20 hindsight may make the MessagePad’s screen look worse than it seemed in 1993; its battery life, however, benefits from a couple of decades of diminished expectations. Back in the 1990s, people squawked that the MessagePad H1000 drained its four AAA batteries too quickly. I found, however, that I could go for a couple of weeks on a set. In an age of smartphones that conk out after less than one day, that was more than enough to keep me happy.</blockquote>Its <a href="http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/db930827.gif">legendarily awful</a> handwriting recognition actually worked pretty well for me.<blockquote>Now, about that handwriting recognition. (It was, incidentally, developed by a team of Russian computer scientists who later went on to create Evernote, the gem of a note-taking app for the iPhone and other devices.)</blockquote><br /><small>(Which makes the icon for this post inaccurate, but it's the only Apple-related icon I have.)</small><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=firecat&ditemid=779907" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments