Okay okay okay I am *excited*
Thanks to the kindness of @mhoye , I have now acquired an Artifact. And I am going to get up to some utter nonsense with it
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Okay okay okay I am *excited*
Thanks to the kindness of @mhoye , I have now acquired an Artifact. And I am going to get up to some utter nonsense with it
mcc
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •@inthehands …you mean… with excitement?
…I doubt it, a little
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You gotta understand how #Apple work.
Lisa was a precursor to OSX/MacOS
Newton was a precursor to iPads
Apple Vision is a precursor to ...
They release and hype a product to iron out all the bugs, marketing and tech...
With capitalisation greater than the entire state of #Australia, they can afford to.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Wulfy • • •@n_dimension Yes, that’s pretty much exactly what I said when the Vision Pro was released! Right down to the Newton comparison (except I view it as an iPhone precursor, not iPad, but nary a diff).
But also:
Newton: released 1993, discontinued 1998(?)
iPhone: released 2007
…so on that timeline, whatever the Apple Vision Pro was the precursor to is due circa 2037.
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in reply to mcc • • •I even have an ISDN card for mine. I wonder if it will still power up? I haven't checked it in years.
There are still things about Newton OS that haven't been improved upon by anything that has come since. Sadly, it got tagged for poor handwriting recognition (that was actually much better than most people remember or realize), and few people ever really got to use it.
Zimmie
in reply to mcc • • •Nice! I really miss mine. It was stolen along with my Virtual Boy and a ton of other stuff in a burglary a while ago. I still have the original keyboard in a box somewhere.
Does it have the internal upgrade to make it a 2100 (the community generally calls a 2000 with the upgrade a 2000u)?
There’s a great developer tool called ViewFrame which lets you poke around in an application’s UI directly on the Newton.
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in reply to Zimmie • • •Zimmie
in reply to mcc • • •If Apple upgraded it, there’s usually a sticker near the Newton Interconnect Port. To confirm absolutely open Extras, hit the i in the bottom left, and select Memory Info. The 2000 had ~1 MB, and the 2100 (and 2000u) had ~4 MB.
If it doesn’t already have the upgrade, it’s about on par with most retrocomputing upgrades. Rare parts, and brittle case plastic.
Tom 🇨🇦
in reply to mcc • • •Like others on this thread, I'd completely forgotten about these!
I liked my Psion way better though I have to say
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Se…
Series of Personal Digital Assistants
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in reply to mcc • • •The #Apple #Newton #Messagepad 2100 was just an excellent device. I still miss certain features it had. For example, you could drag text/images with the stylus and drop it at any edge/margin of the application. You could drop as many snippets as you like. Even if you switch to another page, the snippets were still there and you could drop it.
Here is even an enhancement request for #LibreOffice that is inspired by it:
bugs.documentfoundation.org/sh…
@libreoffice @libodesign
37956 – UI: Usability improvement idea: Drag&Drop in the margin of the application window in Impress
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in reply to Monoka • • •@GerryT @libreoffice @libodesign
The Newton, PalmOS, WebOS and even BB10 all had incredible ideas in them that needed to be killed so that the App Store model could look tolerable.
Spinningmind
in reply to mcc • • •Nice!
I spent hours poking at the demo Newton in a computer store when I was a kid. Like, made multiple trips just to play around with it.
In retrospect I feel lucky the staff didn't kick me out.
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in reply to ieee 754 carrot facts • • •@secretasianman I made it, you can get it on a shirt if you want.
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