Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.
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Since 1997, the #NewtonTalk mailing list has been providing an open forum dedicated to the discussion, support, and enjoyment of the #AppleNewton and related #RetroComputing technologies.
Will the last person to leave the platform please turn off the backlight.
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The #AppleNewton platform has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ethernet, and cellular capability. Agreed, it did not have these things when it launched (and barely had them when it was unfortunately “Steved” five years later) … but you can use all of these technologies now … with a nearly thirty year old device.
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We adore that kind of tub!
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@overlordspock @keyboards @Hawkesnest No, it’s not an Apple keyboard, because it’s a prototype #Newton #eMate 300 that used a third party keyboard for development and industrial design testing.
Here’s the source of the image (and more details about the prototype.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/abeles/4285487332/
Start to finish, the process took just under two and a half days. That was 18 years worth of data, consisting of 12,000+ tweets, retweets, likes, and DMs.
Thanks to @cyd@infosec.exchange for making the task so easy.
Thirty years ago today, Apple announced expanded email capabilities for the #Newton platform with the availability of a #CompuServe Mail Client.
Eckhart Köppen (the developer behind the Y2010 patch for #NewtonOS) is gearing up to solve the recent “Year 2025 Problem” and is blogging about getting his #AppleNewton development environment set up again.
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@billgoats@bitbang.social Looks like things have started to smooth out over the past ten minutes or so.