Pen Computing Magazine: Windows CE Resource
Newton Notes Archive
Apple coined the term "PDA" with the Newton, and though others were busily
trying to come up with their own names (PIC, KPDA, connected organizer,
etc.) for this entirely new generation of
devices, the term PDA came back even after the Newton's untimely death, and it
is now universally used to describe handhelds.
So here's to the original MessagePad, the MP100, 110, 120, 130, the eMate,
and the awsome MessagePads 2000 and 2100. Here's to a future that could have
been. Here's to Apple snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And here's
a big, fat raspberry to Doonesbury cartoonist Trudeau who felt compelled to
make fun of the Newton for a full week after it was first introduced. Well
done, dude.
In this section we present the complete Newton Notes archive. David MacNeill wrote this column starting in 1993, just after the release of the original Newton MessagePad, to the Newton's sad end in early 1998. We hope you enjoy this archive of columns and reviews about the
original PDA and one of the most capable and promising handheld computer ever made.
- Newton Notes #1: Newton Wireless Technology Goes to Work
- Newton Notes #2: Messaging Card and NewtonMail
- Newton Notes #3: Newton Platform Development Conference
- Newton Notes #4: "Do you really use it?"
- Newton Notes #5: The FatNewt and other new stuff
- Newton Notes #6: PresenterPad
- Newton Notes #7: FilePad: A database for your pocket
- Newton Notes #8: TapWorks
- Newton Notes #9: TimeReporter
- Newton Notes #10: Help is at hand
- Newton Notes #11: Good things come in small packages
- Newton Notes #12: Notion: Newton's list manager
- Newton Notes #13: Don't forget to write
- Newton Notes #14: Hot tips and cool software
- Newton Notes #15: Dave's Newton Tips & Tricks
- Newton Notes #16: Information for Newton users
- Newton Notes #17: More information for Newton users
- Newton Notes #18: The Invisible Newton
- Newton Notes #19: What's on your Newton?
- Newton Notes #20: Size Matters
- The Solitaire™ PDA
- Newton Notes #21: What's on your Newton?, Part II
- Losing my religion? A Newton user looks at Windows CE
- Newton Notes #22: The Soup Nazi
- Newton Notes #23: How to lose seven pounds in one day
- Newton Notes #24: Evolution
- Lifestreams on the Newton
- Newton Notes #25: Desert Island Computing
- Newton Notes #26: Maverick
- Newton Notes #27: State of the Newton
- Newton Notes #28: The Big Test
- Newton Notes #29: The Big Test, Part II
- Newton Notes #30: Windows CEmate?
- Special Report: Why Did Apple Kill Newton?
- Newton Notes #31: Untapped Potential
- Newton Notes #32: Ours, not mine
- Newton Notes #33: Imagine a world that revolves around you
- Newton Notes #34: So long Newton. It was fun while it lasted
- Epilogue: Why did Apple kill the Newton?