The Newton was ahead of its time; the technology just wasn't quite there yet. Now, we are all carrying around "Newton-like" devices called smartphones.
steve jobs real talent was not that just he was ahead of his time; his talent was that he knew just how ahead of his time to be. that's why he discontinued the newton
Marcio Souza Actually, the Pippin was developed as a joint project between Apple and Bandai and was manufactured by Bandai and as such it was them who canceled it, not Steve Jobs, after it was a complete failure, for them. Of course Jobs might have pulled the Apple OS and ROM licenses given to Bandai for the Pippin prohibiting future models had not discontinued it meaning it would have died just Mac Clone computers did when Apple refused to license MacOS 8 to them, meaning they could only release System 7 based Mac clones from the on, which no one would buy, so they forced out of the market indirectly. The Newton on the other hand was not a complete failure, especially the eMate 300 model, the best selling model in the lineup at the end. While we can only speculate, it might have been a become a successful product line if Jobs had decided to stick it out a while longer, giving how well the eMate 300 sold but Jobs hate that it was a Sculley-era product and that it used a stylus so he had no incentive to stick it out, especially given the need to pair down the Apple product line in 1997 during the Apple reorg/rebuilding need to get Apple away from near bankruptcy. Jobs may have made the right call with the Newton or given the success of Palm Pilot PDA in 1998, maybe he pulled the plug too soon. Maybe though it doesn’t really matter that much if you believe it never would have been a huge success for Apple ever, though I can see how a Newton fans might have wished it could have stuck around a while longer to see if it could have possibly competed well enough against the. Palm and Pocket PC PDA’s and such to be a profitable devision for Apple, even if never runaway success like the Palm Pilot PDA was.
I used to have a similar windows tablet thing that I could control the TV with. It was so fun making people mad by changing channels behind their backs
Do you mean a Compaq iPAQ maybe? I had one it of those, was so cool and had more features than the first iPhone. I was able to copy over the whole train timetable onto it.
yeah i had that hp for a couple months, it was so cool, i remember when i connected to my wifi and opened msn and showing it to my cousin, she was so impressed
I miss the IR blasters in cell phones. None of the phones seem to have them anymore. I didn't really use it at home, but it was nice to be able to turn off/turn down TVs in public or at other people's houses. lol My S7 edge doesn't have one, but it was worth the trade.
"Developing and popularising the ARM"? It might have played a part in popularising it, but the development had little to do with Apple. The ARM 610 processor used in the Newton was a development of the Advanced Risc Machine company, a spin off from Acorn Computer of Cambridge who were responsible for the original ARM processor (the correct name for the processor in its original form was Acorn RISC Machine). The processor also featured in the Acorn Risc PC 600. Apple did become involved after the fact when they teamed up with Acorn to form the company Xemplar until Acorn was asset stripped in the late 1990s, but that's another story. Having said all that, I was certainly impressed with the Newton and the eMate and, had I the money back then, would have bought one.
Once you get the wi-fi card working, you can send packages to the Newton with some 3rd party tcp/ip transfer apps from Mac or Windows. But getting those initial drivers on there can be tough. Also, I'm surprised that you didn't mention that everything you do is saved immediately to NVRAM. Whether the device is waking back up, or booting up for the first time in years, your data is exactly as you last left it; I think that that's so cool.
Why do so many people hate this thing? It may have been a system that could have been better, but Apple didn't have any experience in handhelds, and for that little experience they had in it, it actually worked pretty good.
The Newton handwriting recognizer lives on! It became Inkwell then Ink on macOS, and now survives as the basis for the recognizer on iPad OS-you can now "write anywhere" on an input just like on the Newton. Macintalk, similarly, still survives, too. You may know it as Siri. (True phoneme-based speech synthesis, in Siri's high-quality case, based on vocal recordings.)
It developed the ARM? Sorry, but I think you should rephrase that. The original Newton used the ARM610 which was also to be found in the RiscPC 600 designed by the ARM processor's original developer, Acorn Computer. Newton's "heart" was actually a transplant!
mistie710 yes, Apple did not develop ARM in and of itself. ARM2 had in deed been used on the Acorn RiscPC 600 first. The ARM6 line of processors though were the product of a joint-venture/spin-off between Acorn, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology that was called Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. which later became ARM holdings in 1998 not long after Apple had stopped using ARM processors when the Newton line was canceled by Steve Jobs during Apple’s reorg after near bankruptcy. Apple would return to using ARM technology in the original iPod in 2001 (embedded ARM in a custom system on a chip) and of course with the introduction of the iPhone and iPad almost a decade later. So while Acorn invented the ARM’s RISC instruction set, Apple and VLSI played a key role developed on the ARM6 tech which was used by other portable computing device manufacturers at the time and subsequently. Apple did something similar with the PowerPC architecture, invented by IBM but which partnered with Apple and Motorola to form AIM to male 32 bit version of their Power architecture processors for personal computers. AIM initially developed and promoted the PPC in Apple Macs but later other devices would use PPC processors too also such as gaming consoles like the Nintendo GameCube. Apple abandoned AIM in the mid-2000s when they felt Motorola wasn’t holding up their end of the bargain (due delays in the G5, which IBM later took over development and production of) and also because the PPC G5 turned out the have a major heat dissipation issue preventing Apple from meeting it’s 3ghz and greater G5 CPU speed promises much like Dead-end Intel had with the Pentium 4 for similar reasons. Intel solved this by a lucky turn of events at their Israeli Research wing which lead to development of multi-core CPU tech which solved the heat issue and thus we got the Core and Core2 Duo CPU’s. Of corse Intel has again run into roadblocks with future Core CPU progress which has AMD with Ryzen kicking its butt causing Apple to abandon that partnership too and go its own way. This time around with Apple Silicon (ARM based) they are doing it largely on their own having acquired an ARM CPU designer perviously,originally for the purpose of designing iPhone/iPad processors/chips but later proving (or so we expect) useful for macOS-based Mac desktop and laptop usage too. So now they only need to license the ARM instruction set tech from ARM Holdings to be able design their own custom ARM CPU’s and aren’t relying a single second party like Motorola (All PPC CPU’s up to the PPC G4) or IBM (built the PPC G5 for Apple, after Motorola fell through) to design and build their CPU’s. Many companies can fab Apple Silicon ARM chips form Apple leaving then less reliant on one company.
@@Charlesb88 Not just the GameCube. IBM's PowerPC architecture powers a surprising number of video gaming architectures including the PS3 and Xbox 360. (I suspect it may have something to do with PPC's vector extensions, also licensing.) Nintendo has been pushing ARM in their last few mobile and set-top generations. Interesting addition in relation to modern Apple Silicon, as well; they're the first company to make extensive use of several ARM features I've been drooling over as a systems engineer. BIG.little, check. 64-bit pure, beautiful. Foreign opcode execution through hardware and software assisted emulation? I have not sufficiently polite words. Intel investors have *reasons* to be worried, when foreign opcode instruction and emulation can beat native silicon executing the same code in performance per watt.
I actually got my hands on a PC Serial cable for the Newton. Found it on eBay, and bought it. Now I got Newton Connection Utilities working on Windows 7. (Well, kinda. There are some PC-side issues, likely caused by Windows 7)
It's popular to mock John Scully's Apple, but the Newton seems like a very well-thought device for its time. It's far from being as useful as a modern-day tablet, but for its time it seems to have been quite good, and there was another company - Palm - that made (later) similar devices and had a very successful business with them (sometimes it's a matter of luck).
I spent an evening playing around with one of these. Once it had learned my handwriting I found it rather fun but, like my Google Home, a solution looking for a problem.
I have a MessagePad 130. just pulled it out of storage. It's lived in it's custom leather daytimer case for 27 years. I put fresh batteries in it, and it fired right up. The memory battery said it was low, so I replaced it. All of my notes, drawings, contacts, everything...... ALL STILL THERE!!!! My son, 14, saw it for the first time a few weeks ago. He was mesmerized by it, had a ton of questions. His 'impressions'? He was REALLY impressed by the quality feel, the intuitive interface and everything. He said he'd use a modern version, like a retro remake, for sure, because it's so weird and cool. Maybe GenZ is headed the right direction. fyi, I'm 63, soon 64. Have always been in tech as an electronics guy, repair, engineering, consumer and professional stuff, going waaaay back to the mid 70s. So if anyone reading this has questions about anything from that period... I sold, and serviced, ALL of it! Fond memories of much of this stuff... and where it's taken us today, with all the tech we have at our fingertips, is amazing.
@@beashnpull dude the iPhone 1 was legendary. It literally changed how we use smartphones today. Touch screen phones did exist before that but they all sucked ass. Also, the revolution of the iPhone is not just in multitouch, it's also in the app store. Back then, there was no dedicated centralized app store for developers to sell apps on a mobile os.
The pocket story sounds like a variation of the first Sony portable transistor radio, where the Japanese salesman/demo engineering had larger pockets sewn into his shirt so the radio would fit, and he could demo it to the American businessmen investors as something more portable than it really was.
The Newton was was of the first devices to have an ARM CPU ARM 610 (RISC) @ 20 MHz . Brits might remember the Acorn Computers Ltd and the BBC Micro in 1981, but that was made with a 6502 processor. Development on the Acorn RISC Machine didn't start until some time around 1983. The first chip was delivered to Acorn on 26th April 1985. The 30th birthday of the architecture is this year! The Acorn Archimedes which was released in 1987, was the first RISC based home computer. In November 1990, Advanced RISC Machines Ltd was structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology. The reason for this was because Apple wanted to use Arm technology but didn’t want to base a product on Acorn IP - who, at the time were considered a competitor. Apple invested the cash, VLSI Technology provided the tools, and Acorn provided the 12 engineers and with that Arm was born, and its luxury office in Cambridge (England)!"
The newton came about at a time when the market was flooded by overpriced, low performance digital PDAs. It was probably the only device without a built in keyboard; sound familiar?
Actually few true PDA devices existed at the time. The first true PDA, the Organiser, was released in 1984 by Psion which followed it with other models prior 1993 but it wasn’t called a PDA at the time as Apple was first to coin that term to describe the computer/device type of the Newton. The Psion Organiser did indeed include a keyboard unlike most of the Original Newtons (the Newton eMate 300 was the lone acceptation). The first Palm PDAs, released shortly after the Newton’s cancellation also had no physical keyboard either. Other devices existed back then that were PDA-like such as electronic organizers (ex: Sharp Wizard series) and palmtop computers (ex: Atari Portfolio) and they all had physical keyboards but were not PDAs in a strict sense.
@@Charlesb88 I think he means the little pocket rolodex with extra features kind of thing, like calendar, note taking, alarm, calculators, etc. (The thing Elaine got on Seinfeld which the Russian writer threw out the limo window in that episode.) Those weren't really what we consider PDAs, but in essence, they were very similar.
@@lelsewherelelsewhere9435 If he was referring to devices like the Sharp Wizard series and other pocket electronic organizers and electronic Rolodexes, those were never referred to as PDA’s back then. They where always called electronic organizers or electronic Rolodexes (in some cases).. As I have always understood the tow classifications of device, what makes a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a PDA is that it includes the same functions found electronic organizer but with ability to update the system software and install your own software so you can increase the types of tasks it can perform vs it’s stock configuration. They also tend to have a touch screen (early PDA’s used stylus whereas modern PDA’s like the iPod Touch use multi-touch finger control). An Electronic Organizer, on the other hand, comes with a fixed set of built-in functions. They might in some case allow for data to be transferred from the device to a PC using a special physical cable (that was often sold seperately) but they do not allow the software/funtions built-in to be modified/upgrade or new software to be installed. Typically Electronic organizers came with at least the following functions: An local/world clock with alarm(s), electronic address book (electronic Rolodex), Scientific calculator, simple calendar, electronic datebook/scheduler, and electronic memo/diary function. These all typically used fixed buttons for all functions including specific buttons for the various functions (calculator, calendar, memo, address book, Eric), a full keyboard for text input, a calculator keypad, navigation arrows, etc. PDA’s largely used a stylus for input and navigation though latter models often could also make use of an optional external keyboard too. PDA’s tended to have larger screens over EO’s, with much fewer physical buttons, and they always had a means of syncing/copy data/software to and from a computer unlike some of the cheaper EO’s.
@The Science Elf: The Newton became the iPhone. If you want proof I have a screen shot of an iPhone 2G prototype boot up that was uploaded here on UA-cam that I took where you can read it. If you watch the original video you can see that it was not photoshopped. The actual message says, '[Say hello to the Newton MessagePad 3000][03.07.01_G]'
I have a Samsung Note 10 Lite and it's Samsung Notes app can also recognise handwriting and convert it into text, and you cand draw, select/drag around, copy/paste, that sort of thing. There are also apps for artists that have the option to add and rearrange layers like a desktop drawing application would. It's pretty neat, though I dunno what specific aspects you were asking for in particular.
If you want an actually decent PDA, go for a Palm device. Far more applications and support, much nicer to use, much smaller, better battery life, extremely simple to communicate with (no file converters unless you want to use BlueTooth, some even come with Microsoft Office compatibles!)
The thing about the Newton in the end wasn’t that it was total failure as it’s sales where picking up towards the end, especially for laptop-like Newton eMate 300, which was success but rather Jobs had issue with the Newton such as his distaste for using styluses and that it was a Sculley-era product. The fact that Apple at the time of his return was in dire financial straights, he was able to use that to kill of the Newton under the rational of product simplification at Apple. It’s possible had he choose to stick it outa while longer he would have seen the Newton devision become profitable, especially given the success of the Palm PDA released in 1998. On the other hand, it’s also possible that Steve Jobs feelings about Stylus based PDA’s and other concerns of his about the Newton was justified financially and it never really would have been the kind of success it would need to have become to justify keeping it going during Apple’s rebuilding/reorg phase. The eMate 300 success might have just been a fluke and not a sign the Newton line could have succeed in the long run.
I feel like the macintalk could even today make it a interesting and cool device. Evenso that it could be used by mute persons if someone wrote a software that takes advantage of it to be used as a augmentative speaking device for communication. It has a touchscreen, and it would just need someone smart to come along to develop some AAC software, or even some cool DIY talking games for the blind for it!
0:28 I know what you're doing with the "Apple the fell on Isaac Newton's head", but if a Macintosh computer fell on your head, you would be unconscious.
The Newton was ahead of its time; the technology just wasn't quite there yet. Now, we are all carrying around "Newton-like" devices called smartphones.
Newton was smart. Makes sense. 😊
steve jobs real talent was not that just he was ahead of his time; his talent was that he knew just how ahead of his time to be. that's why he discontinued the newton
In fact Jobs was a genius, but for discontinuing Newton and Pippin.
Today's smartphones are just improved palmtop and Apple Newton was just a palmtop. Not a first palmtop in history.
Marcio Souza Actually, the Pippin was developed as a joint project between Apple and Bandai and was manufactured by Bandai and as such it was them who canceled it, not Steve Jobs, after it was a complete failure, for them. Of course Jobs might have pulled the Apple OS and ROM licenses given to Bandai for the Pippin prohibiting future models had not discontinued it meaning it would have died just Mac Clone computers did when Apple refused to license MacOS 8 to them, meaning they could only release System 7 based Mac clones from the on, which no one would buy, so they forced out of the market indirectly.
The Newton on the other hand was not a complete failure, especially the eMate 300 model, the best selling model in the lineup at the end. While we can only speculate, it might have been a become a successful product line if Jobs had decided to stick it out a while longer, giving how well the eMate 300 sold but Jobs hate that it was a Sculley-era product and that it used a stylus so he had no incentive to stick it out, especially given the need to pair down the Apple product line in 1997 during the Apple reorg/rebuilding need to get Apple away from near bankruptcy. Jobs may have made the right call with the Newton or given the success of Palm Pilot PDA in 1998, maybe he pulled the plug too soon. Maybe though it doesn’t really matter that much if you believe it never would have been a huge success for Apple ever, though I can see how a Newton fans might have wished it could have stuck around a while longer to see if it could have possibly competed well enough against the. Palm and Pocket PC PDA’s and such to be a profitable devision for Apple, even if never runaway success like the Palm Pilot PDA was.
I used to have a similar windows tablet thing that I could control the TV with. It was so fun making people mad by changing channels behind their backs
Do you mean a Compaq iPAQ maybe? I had one it of those, was so cool and had more features than the first iPhone. I was able to copy over the whole train timetable onto it.
yeah i had that hp for a couple months, it was so cool, i remember when i connected to my wifi and opened msn and showing it to my cousin, she was so impressed
I miss the IR blasters in cell phones. None of the phones seem to have them anymore. I didn't really use it at home, but it was nice to be able to turn off/turn down TVs in public or at other people's houses. lol My S7 edge doesn't have one, but it was worth the trade.
Could have been a phillips pronto, a lot of people had them with their home theatres back in the day.
gentuxable the science elf has now made a video on that
"Oh, you had trouble with calculus? I did too, when I invented it." -Isaac Newtown
it didn't have a headphone jack
it was way ahead of its time
"Developing and popularising the ARM"? It might have played a part in popularising it, but the development had little to do with Apple. The ARM 610 processor used in the Newton was a development of the Advanced Risc Machine company, a spin off from Acorn Computer of Cambridge who were responsible for the original ARM processor (the correct name for the processor in its original form was Acorn RISC Machine). The processor also featured in the Acorn Risc PC 600. Apple did become involved after the fact when they teamed up with Acorn to form the company Xemplar until Acorn was asset stripped in the late 1990s, but that's another story.
Having said all that, I was certainly impressed with the Newton and the eMate and, had I the money back then, would have bought one.
Once you get the wi-fi card working, you can send packages to the Newton with some 3rd party tcp/ip transfer apps from Mac or Windows. But getting those initial drivers on there can be tough.
Also, I'm surprised that you didn't mention that everything you do is saved immediately to NVRAM. Whether the device is waking back up, or booting up for the first time in years, your data is exactly as you last left it; I think that that's so cool.
But can it run minesweeper
TheUltimateGamer. Can everyone stop asking for games?
WTF i want that ancient piece of technology now
Just snag yourself an iPad capable of Pencil use.
You've now got the modern evolution of this device.
@@GothAlice lady, here in the UA-cam comment section is not allowed to have common sense
Why do so many people hate this thing? It may have been a system that could have been better, but Apple didn't have any experience in handhelds, and for that little experience they had in it, it actually worked pretty good.
1980's : 10MB! What a large storage.!
2018: 10GB! What on Earth! So small storage!
2020: 50TB. (In *one* array.)
The Newton handwriting recognizer lives on! It became Inkwell then Ink on macOS, and now survives as the basis for the recognizer on iPad OS-you can now "write anywhere" on an input just like on the Newton. Macintalk, similarly, still survives, too. You may know it as Siri. (True phoneme-based speech synthesis, in Siri's high-quality case, based on vocal recordings.)
its auto correct is better than todays
Lol k
eat up martha
Beat up martin
@@commentsanitizer7929
No, Eat Up Martha
That's not saying much lol
It developed the ARM? Sorry, but I think you should rephrase that. The original Newton used the ARM610 which was also to be found in the RiscPC 600 designed by the ARM processor's original developer, Acorn Computer. Newton's "heart" was actually a transplant!
mistie710 yes, Apple did not develop ARM in and of itself. ARM2 had in deed been used on the Acorn RiscPC 600 first. The ARM6 line of processors though were the product of a joint-venture/spin-off between Acorn, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology that was called Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. which later became ARM holdings in 1998 not long after Apple had stopped using ARM processors when the Newton line was canceled by Steve Jobs during Apple’s reorg after near bankruptcy. Apple would return to using ARM technology in the original iPod in 2001 (embedded ARM in a custom system on a chip) and of course with the introduction of the iPhone and iPad almost a decade later. So while Acorn invented the ARM’s RISC instruction set, Apple and VLSI played a key role developed on the ARM6 tech which was used by other portable computing device manufacturers at the time and subsequently.
Apple did something similar with the PowerPC architecture, invented by IBM but which partnered with Apple and Motorola to form AIM to male 32 bit version of their Power architecture processors for personal computers. AIM initially developed and promoted the PPC in Apple Macs but later other devices would use PPC processors too also such as gaming consoles like the Nintendo GameCube. Apple abandoned AIM in the mid-2000s when they felt Motorola wasn’t holding up their end of the bargain (due delays in the G5, which IBM later took over development and production of) and also because the PPC G5 turned out the have a major heat dissipation issue preventing Apple from meeting it’s 3ghz and greater G5 CPU speed promises much like Dead-end Intel had with the Pentium 4 for similar reasons. Intel solved this by a lucky turn of events at their Israeli Research wing which lead to development of multi-core CPU tech which solved the heat issue and thus we got the Core and Core2 Duo CPU’s. Of corse Intel has again run into roadblocks with future Core CPU progress which has AMD with Ryzen kicking its butt causing Apple to abandon that partnership too and go its own way. This time around with Apple Silicon (ARM based) they are doing it largely on their own having acquired an ARM CPU designer perviously,originally for the purpose of designing iPhone/iPad processors/chips but later proving (or so we expect) useful for macOS-based Mac desktop and laptop usage too. So now they only need to license the ARM instruction set tech from ARM Holdings to be able design their own custom ARM CPU’s and aren’t relying a single second party like Motorola (All PPC CPU’s up to the PPC G4) or IBM (built the PPC G5 for Apple, after Motorola fell through) to design and build their CPU’s. Many companies can fab Apple Silicon ARM chips form Apple leaving then less reliant on one company.
@@Charlesb88 Not just the GameCube. IBM's PowerPC architecture powers a surprising number of video gaming architectures including the PS3 and Xbox 360. (I suspect it may have something to do with PPC's vector extensions, also licensing.) Nintendo has been pushing ARM in their last few mobile and set-top generations.
Interesting addition in relation to modern Apple Silicon, as well; they're the first company to make extensive use of several ARM features I've been drooling over as a systems engineer. BIG.little, check. 64-bit pure, beautiful.
Foreign opcode execution through hardware and software assisted emulation? I have not sufficiently polite words. Intel investors have *reasons* to be worried, when foreign opcode instruction and emulation can beat native silicon executing the same code in performance per watt.
I actually got my hands on a PC Serial cable for the Newton. Found it on eBay, and bought it. Now I got Newton Connection Utilities working on Windows 7. (Well, kinda. There are some PC-side issues, likely caused by Windows 7)
It's popular to mock John Scully's Apple, but the Newton seems like a very well-thought device for its time. It's far from being as useful as a modern-day tablet, but for its time it seems to have been quite good, and there was another company - Palm - that made (later) similar devices and had a very successful business with them (sometimes it's a matter of luck).
“You guys designed a box of garbage while i was away”
I spent an evening playing around with one of these. Once it had learned my handwriting I found it rather fun but, like my Google Home, a solution looking for a problem.
I have a MessagePad 130. just pulled it out of storage. It's lived in it's custom leather daytimer case for 27 years. I put fresh batteries in it, and it fired right up. The memory battery said it was low, so I replaced it. All of my notes, drawings, contacts, everything...... ALL STILL THERE!!!! My son, 14, saw it for the first time a few weeks ago. He was mesmerized by it, had a ton of questions. His 'impressions'? He was REALLY impressed by the quality feel, the intuitive interface and everything. He said he'd use a modern version, like a retro remake, for sure, because it's so weird and cool.
Maybe GenZ is headed the right direction. fyi, I'm 63, soon 64. Have always been in tech as an electronics guy, repair, engineering, consumer and professional stuff, going waaaay back to the mid 70s. So if anyone reading this has questions about anything from that period... I sold, and serviced, ALL of it! Fond memories of much of this stuff... and where it's taken us today, with all the tech we have at our fingertips, is amazing.
Have to admit, upon watching this I have a newly developed respect for this device.
hi bro and science notes that time you are left from group
"The little box of garbage."
-Steve Jobs
And comes out with iPhone (aka. Improved apple newton) and hailed as jesus or something.
@@beashnpull dude the iPhone 1 was legendary. It literally changed how we use smartphones today. Touch screen phones did exist before that but they all sucked ass. Also, the revolution of the iPhone is not just in multitouch, it's also in the app store. Back then, there was no dedicated centralized app store for developers to sell apps on a mobile os.
My first removable memory card was a 10 meg PCMCIA card, which I got in 1996 for my second digital camera, a Kodak DC50. The card cost $800.
4:23 The voice sound like Satisfaction from Benny Benassi
Fitter Happier
Apple, make the NewtonPro!
I loved those things... had from original through 2100 and they had a sense of whimsy than anything since and had lots of neat UI things.
This is a surprisingly usable device
Write "Beat up Martin"
The pocket story sounds like a variation of the first Sony portable transistor radio, where the Japanese salesman/demo engineering had larger pockets sewn into his shirt so the radio would fit, and he could demo it to the American businessmen investors as something more portable than it really was.
The Newton was was of the first devices to have an ARM CPU ARM 610 (RISC) @ 20 MHz
. Brits might remember the Acorn Computers Ltd and the BBC Micro in 1981, but that was made with a 6502 processor. Development on the Acorn RISC Machine didn't start until some time around 1983. The first chip was delivered to Acorn on 26th April 1985. The 30th birthday of the architecture is this year! The Acorn Archimedes which was released in 1987, was the first RISC based home computer. In November 1990, Advanced RISC Machines Ltd was structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology. The reason for this was because Apple wanted to use Arm technology but didn’t want to base a product on Acorn IP - who, at the time were considered a competitor. Apple invested the cash, VLSI Technology provided the tools, and Acorn provided the 12 engineers and with that Arm was born, and its luxury office in Cambridge (England)!"
I have one. I remember thinking the handwriting recognition was awesome!
not that's what you call innovation, not removing headphone jack and adding a software that blurs the background
0:37 HOW MANY FUCKING STEVES ARE THERE
It needs backlighting
I remember wanting one of these as a teenager.
You can see the inspiration for the scribble feature in iPadOS 14 in the Newton’s handwriting recognition
my only portal computing device during college in late 1990s and early 2000s it was a graphing calculator so I love monochrome displays.
Why do I want one of these so bad
the first iphone was not black and white screen
"Eat up Martha"
So revolutionary: "It will recognize your handwriting and you can spit on it!"
Even that was notreally 'first'. IBM launched the thinkpad700t tablet in 1992.
You Are SOOOO Underrated! :0
Salam true
Can it run Crysis?
The answer is.......coming after these msgs
The newton came about at a time when the market was flooded by overpriced, low performance digital PDAs. It was probably the only device without a built in keyboard; sound familiar?
Such as? Which ones came out in 1993 according to you?
Actually few true PDA devices existed at the time. The first true PDA, the Organiser, was released in 1984 by Psion which followed it with other models prior 1993 but it wasn’t called a PDA at the time as Apple was first to coin that term to describe the computer/device type of the Newton. The Psion Organiser did indeed include a keyboard unlike most of the Original Newtons (the Newton eMate 300 was the lone acceptation). The first Palm PDAs, released shortly after the Newton’s cancellation also had no physical keyboard either. Other devices existed back then that were PDA-like such as electronic organizers (ex: Sharp Wizard series) and palmtop computers (ex: Atari Portfolio) and they all had physical keyboards but were not PDAs in a strict sense.
@@Charlesb88 I think he means the little pocket rolodex with extra features kind of thing, like calendar, note taking, alarm, calculators, etc. (The thing Elaine got on Seinfeld which the Russian writer threw out the limo window in that episode.)
Those weren't really what we consider PDAs, but in essence, they were very similar.
@@lelsewherelelsewhere9435 If he was referring to devices like the Sharp Wizard series and other pocket electronic organizers and electronic Rolodexes, those were never referred to as PDA’s back then. They where always called electronic organizers or electronic Rolodexes (in some cases).. As I have always understood the tow classifications of device, what makes a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a PDA is that it includes the same functions found electronic organizer but with ability to update the system software and install your own software so you can increase the types of tasks it can perform vs it’s stock configuration. They also tend to have a touch screen (early PDA’s used stylus whereas modern PDA’s like the iPod Touch use multi-touch finger control). An Electronic Organizer, on the other hand, comes with a fixed set of built-in functions. They might in some case allow for data to be transferred from the device to a PC using a special physical cable (that was often sold seperately) but they do not allow the software/funtions built-in to be modified/upgrade or new software to be installed. Typically Electronic organizers came with at least the following functions: An local/world clock with alarm(s), electronic address book (electronic Rolodex), Scientific calculator, simple calendar, electronic datebook/scheduler, and electronic memo/diary function. These all typically used fixed buttons for all functions including specific buttons for the various functions (calculator, calendar, memo, address book, Eric), a full keyboard for text input, a calculator keypad, navigation arrows, etc. PDA’s largely used a stylus for input and navigation though latter models often could also make use of an optional external keyboard too. PDA’s tended to have larger screens over EO’s, with much fewer physical buttons, and they always had a means of syncing/copy data/software to and from a computer unlike some of the cheaper EO’s.
I liked apple before jobs returned. Also, apple used the arm processors because during that time apple owned a significant portion of acorn/arm.
And this kids. Is how autocorrect was made. XD
Wow! I was expecting it to be way lower then what it was but seriously I thought it was like 128x64
Old IPad???
It took until 2020 to finally bring these newton features to the iPad in iOS14
Reminds me of the note series from samsung, because of the stylus.
You’re telling me that the newton has features that apple called a breakthrough on their ipads
This is why I still use my friends old Newton
I love your sense of humor.
Both links are dead UNNA:
www.unna.org/ and the Newton Emulator: coveted
How innovative, I like it!
OS 10. The "X" is a Roman numeral.
@The Science Elf:
The Newton became the iPhone. If you want proof I have a screen shot of an iPhone 2G prototype boot up that was uploaded here on UA-cam that I took where you can read it. If you watch the original video you can see that it was not photoshopped.
The actual message says, '[Say hello to the Newton MessagePad 3000][03.07.01_G]'
Great videos!! When I first see your videos, I thought that you have millions of subs..
How come 20+ years old devices have a dedicated user base? Demoscene.
Is there any drawing app similar to the one on newton? 📱
I have a Samsung Note 10 Lite and it's Samsung Notes app can also recognise handwriting and convert it into text, and you cand draw, select/drag around, copy/paste, that sort of thing. There are also apps for artists that have the option to add and rearrange layers like a desktop drawing application would. It's pretty neat, though I dunno what specific aspects you were asking for in particular.
Why couldn't they market these as MP3 players??
Can it run FlipaClip and KineMaster?
The Apple Newton MessagePad which is now failed and now on display at Museum of Failure.
Wow. Just wow. That ending made my day (the mobile has a newton chip).
I had one and thought it was great!
Why did you use some kind of pre-war map of Euroasia? :D
I have an Apple newton messagepad 110
PC Guy cool
Famously used by the real person Casey Ryback when he stopped the trainjacking terrorists.
Hey Science Elf do you like Vaporwave? I mean....everyone who uses old hardware does. I hope.
Can it run crysis?
If you want an actually decent PDA, go for a Palm device. Far more applications and support, much nicer to use, much smaller, better battery life, extremely simple to communicate with (no file converters unless you want to use BlueTooth, some even come with Microsoft Office compatibles!)
The thing about the Newton in the end wasn’t that it was total failure as it’s sales where picking up towards the end, especially for laptop-like Newton eMate 300, which was success but rather Jobs had issue with the Newton such as his distaste for using styluses and that it was a Sculley-era product. The fact that Apple at the time of his return was in dire financial straights, he was able to use that to kill of the Newton under the rational of product simplification at Apple. It’s possible had he choose to stick it outa while longer he would have seen the Newton devision become profitable, especially given the success of the Palm PDA released in 1998. On the other hand, it’s also possible that Steve Jobs feelings about Stylus based PDA’s and other concerns of his about the Newton was justified financially and it never really would have been the kind of success it would need to have become to justify keeping it going during Apple’s rebuilding/reorg phase. The eMate 300 success might have just been a fluke and not a sign the Newton line could have succeed in the long run.
Wow, this new iPhone Xs 2 is amazing
Wot about stylus for phones
I have a 2100 somewhere in my attic from back then...
So woz invented the palm pilot/ipad/iphone
0:34 Apple's beta attempt at entering the foldable phone market
newton emulator link is broken :/
This is what happens when Steve jobs left/fired
My friends name is Taylor Newton
"Beat up Martin!"
_”Eat up, Martha”_
I feel like the macintalk could even today make it a interesting and cool device. Evenso that it could be used by mute persons if someone wrote a software that takes advantage of it to be used as a augmentative speaking device for communication.
It has a touchscreen, and it would just need someone smart to come along to develop some AAC software, or even some cool DIY talking games for the blind for it!
Scribble is so much cooler now
But this device is no match for Sony Ericsson Xperia series.
Damn, now I want a Newton
Newton's always sucked. Haven't you seem classic Simpsons?? that joke says all you need to know
0:27 and that’s how Steve Jobs was revived... don’t play around with Itrees I mean Apple Trees
Isaac Newton?
does anyone know of any android software that is similar to the TTS with images? like 4:20
0:28 I know what you're doing with the "Apple the fell on Isaac Newton's head", but if a Macintosh computer fell on your head, you would be unconscious.
That's part of the joke
Still better than the iPhone XS
Nobody talked about the rickroll at the en
It only weighs 6 newtons!
A very bad device. Handwriting recognition useless. Sharp IQ9000 was a far better machine, more compact, superb GUI and completely usable.
Long live the Newton
OMG this is the best joke I have ever heard in my entire life XDDDD
Erm. The Newton didn't develop and popularise ARM processors. Acorn did.
It was good introduction!
0:37 - I SWEAR THAT IS BILL NYE! PAUSE YOUR VIDS!
I love the video, Really cool.
Haha I looked up that website it's really interesting