Apple Newton MessagePad (1993) Full Tour and Disassembly
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2016
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The Newton was Apple's first attempt at a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and it was certainly an ambitious one!
Apple designed the Newton with a (then!) state of the art handwriting recognition system, so that you did not have to use an on-screen keyboard to enter text. You simply wrote text onto the screen in your own handwriting, and the Newton would recognise it and convert it into standard type.
At least, that was the theory...
In reality, the handwriting recognition system used by the early Newton devices was very unreliable and inaccurate. The original Newton also suffered with a relatively low contrast LCD screen that had no backlight, poor battery life, and limited connectivity options.
Apple Newton MessagePad (original model H1000)
Introduced : August 1993
Discontinued : March 1994
CPU : ARM 610 running at 20 MHz
CPU Data Bus : 32-bit
FPU : N/A
RAM : 640 KB
ROM : 4 MB
Video : Internal B&W 336x240 passive matrix touch LCD
Expansion slots : 1 x PCMCIA card slot
Supported Newton OS : 1.0 to 1.11 - Наука та технологія
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In 1993 I wasn't perhaps even aware of Newton on any level other than perhaps a brief mention in a magazine. For me it was a glorified electronic agenda. I was more interested in home computers in 1993 (Mega STE and Amiga 1200 at the time).
I guess a late teen was not their target audience lol.
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When you talk about the poor hand writing recognition, it reminds me of The Simpsons scene where the Newton mistakes "Beat Up Martin" for "Eat Up Martha" haha.
Yeah lol
My guess for the battery change system was that the unit probably would lose data if it lost battery power like a lot of early systems like that. Because of that, it only let you change one set of batteries at a time so that there'd always be some battery in there to retain memory.
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I think that Apple made the battery compartment like that was probably to offer an optional battery pack, perhaps rechargeable. The XBox 360 game controller is like that.
Hi Jason - I have the H1000 and enjoyed your talk and teardown. I have photos showing some of the critical screws to remove which you appeared to skip. Let me know how to forward to you.
In relation to the AAA battery holder, if my memory serves me correctly you could house standard alkaline or rechargeable batteries, however they were each in a slightly different holder (good marketing!). A minor modification to the regular battery holder enabled the use of rechargeable batteries. Pretty nifty for 1993!
I'd love to get my hands on another H1000 as my LCD display has partially failed - would like to determine if it's the display module/screen itself or a mainboard problem. Any ideas where I might be able to get one (I'm in Australia)?
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By the way, ARM is pronounced like the body part Arm.
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So it's like AutoCorrect before the iPhone? Autocorrect ducks things up so much
use plastic card to separate parts, Jason!
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