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eventually made everything that came before it look obsolete the Apple Newton

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didn't quite catch on in the same way and when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in

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1997 he immediately killed it but what

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more in common with your smartphone than you probably think all touch screen all

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the time it runs on an rmsoc and it can

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you've heard of the Apple Newton chances are you are at least as old as I am very

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geeky an Apple fan or most likely some

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combination of the three it's one of the first pdas or personal digital

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assistants ever and possibly even the First with a stylus it's also the one to

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coin the term PDA Newton was a weird product it was one of those ones that

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launched in the era when Steve Jobs was in Exile at next computer and the idea

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was kind of actually pretty smart to take a powerful but efficient ARM SOC

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put it in a small aesthetically pleasing package okay

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parts arguable and then use it to make a sort of digital notepad address book and

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planner all-in-one compact little box why not a mobile phone you ask these

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things take time and text messaging didn't even exist yet if you look at the

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original Newton message pad though it does kind of look an awful lot like the

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iPhone later did doesn't it it's all screen it's driven by touch input and

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it's got that bar shape that we're all familiar with today this message pad

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you're looking at right here is among the last that Apple released in 1997 and

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while the screen is off right now it

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does actually work I just don't know how

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to turn it on because this is my first time ever touching it but I'm assuming it's the slider right oh ah okay it was

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actually that easy wow that screen is not very bright it is not backlit there

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is a light though if you hold down the slider in the glow no way

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of it I mean it's not going to do anything for the glare I think I have the solution to that do we have any of

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those little rubber pucks get poked and

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I can almost read it all the viewing angles aren't that bad that's actually

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true what display technology is this

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this is actually an LCD it is 16 color grayscale 480 by 320. ha that is really

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good for the time yeah it was really expensive for the time A lot of it was

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Advanced for the time it used a strong ARM 110 processor it had one megabyte of

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RAM and a whopping four megabytes of flash RAM with battery backing that's

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right friends we didn't have persistent storage at least affordably for

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consumers back then so if your battery died and then your other more different

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secondary battery died your PDA would completely wipe yeah so don't open the

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battery Bay unless we have it plugged into the wall unfortunately that's just

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how it goes the internal battery if there ever was one I'm not sure is dead

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so it says four Double A's in a carrier

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yes that's how this was powered hilarious I won't be opening this door

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then but we can look at the rest of the i o we've got not one but two PC mcia

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slots you can see we populated one of them with eight megabytes of flash

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storage we've got a second one that will be using for a Wi-Fi card we did find an

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old enough wireless router that we could connect this thing to it got a speaker

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on the front infrared love that got a transfer some files over the uh over the

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air and of course Apple's got a proprietary serial port a dcn jack wow

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so you plug it in at the top integrated style of storage though that's nice to

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see it's so funny to me how Apple was the first with a stylus and now they

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hate the idea of them so much that they

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won't even call their stylus a stylus it's a pencil you want to see something

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really cool okay there's a hub there's a hole is

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that to hold that oh shut up that's to hold my stylus while it's sitting on my

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desk like this yes that is absolutely

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hilarious it's actually pretty useful if

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you're using it on the desk like when I was using it to try and set it up for

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this shoot instead of having it rolling around on my desk I just put in that and

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it's fine brilliant yeah it has a mic in it does have a mic yes you can make

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voice recordings and in fact with a modem you could make calls but you'd

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need a pcmcia modem and you'd need to be plugged into the wall well yes you would

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oh my gosh the cruise card by U.S robotics

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that would have been actually a pretty good modem back in the day now that's a

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name I've not heard in a very long time we won't be using this though we're

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going to be using right we don't have anything to plug into that this Orinoco

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Wi-Fi card 11 megabit 802.11 B let's go

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it supports WEP 128 bit Lucent Waveland

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IEEE as modern as some aspects of it are though I gotta say I'm glad that we've

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moved on from these soft touch Coatings have we though they're still around

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turns into schmoo yeah it's actually reduced like reverting back into the the

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sap from the rubber tree of course it's proprietary you need an adapter for this

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if you want to use a peripheral or sync to a PC or Mac my script says it's

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unobtaining but you appear to have one yes a viewer actually allowed us to loan

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one we can't buy one to save our lives they're not on eBay they're not on

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Facebook Marketplace they only existed for this generation in 1997 until they

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were discontinued in 1997. the funny thing is it's not just cereal it was

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originally meant to break out into multiple different protocols including

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cereal but also audio out this kind of looks like looks like it would do PS2

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close it would do Apple desktop bus so

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the old keyboard standard that they had you can actually plug in a keyboard

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to the Newton the older Newtons just had that they didn't have the the Newton

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interconnect Port it's called that's a view button so basically it changes the

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current view in this case it goes from the node itself to I think a list of

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notes and that will show you the notes that have been saved up there if you

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click on that oh that what a cute little clocks

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keyboard oh now you're it sounds like a

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delays you're using the on-screen keyboard but

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there's another way to input text okay this I know but only because I've been

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watching old Simpsons reruns lately actually last night I watched the

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infamous episode where I think Jimbo tries to write something on the screen

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of his Newton and then ends up hucking it at Martin because it works so poorly

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so let's see let's see if it can recognize my writing Newton

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truly kind of usable I'm speeding up a

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little bit now oh okay we're starting to run into trouble

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and it doesn't do cursive it does oh you have to switch the mode ah okay now if

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you want to delete something you can just draw a almost like a w like a

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zigzag just a sharp zigzag of at least four segments yeah so cute and if you

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need to adjust one character you can just write over it it needs to be at

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least four four times

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oh yeah okay that worked I was just in a different text input mode I was in ink

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text hello yeah that's sort of garbage I wrote

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cursive and then it just takes an image of what you wrote and then it just

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plunks it all next to each other so that way you could just write in the same spot and it'll

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um if you okay so if you open up the um the text modes then hit the I I think

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down at the bottom left are you saying this didn't catch on no it didn't count

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I mean I don't know so then you can change it from yeah so you need to change the mode

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directly to cursive hello

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oh my goodness my cursive is terrible it's supposed to learn your writing over

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the course of several weeks or months I will try this will try

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um let's try two okay

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this would not be a Time Saver well yeah

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there's a reason why on-screen keyboards took off how do I get to a home screen

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or something that is the home screen so it's just a note thing what do you mean

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by home screen you want like apps or something like that yeah are there apps

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yeah if you go to extras oh extras

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all sorts of stuff you can look at right there is the unfiled icons unfiled icons

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is basically whatever you haven't categorized if you touch the tab title

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you'll get a little pop-up menu

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and you can see other things okay I mean it was inevitable wasn't it

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yeah no way it is full of games why when

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did Apple start hating Gamers well to be

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fair they weren't pre-loaded I had to load them in myself they existed though

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they did exist rocks in space that has to be asteroid that's kind of part of

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the problem with all this software is that it is very old registering it is

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not straightforward anymore so all of this is pretty much demos

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launched them once

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the first time I've ever played it you hold to rotate and then hold the go

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forward and then you can like hold the rotate this is terrible

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well there's only so much you can do with a stylus I mean it's not like touch

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screens would ever catch on right frogs versus cars who will win

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dad oh man these are really really really

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picky tiny controls

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what the crap oh I've not played a lot of Frogger this is

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not Frogger it is legally distinct from

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Frogger it is frogs versus cars

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yeah I don't think they get as far as taking on the cars I would like to make

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a voice recording that's another very modern functionality that this thing had

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so you would go um I think it might actually be in the

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main Notes app there should be a way to change the stationary new you're

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recording hey after our conversation at

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the golf course I

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yeah it sounds like poo poo yep cool that's like uh what is it like probably

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uh eight kilohertz or 11 kilohertz something maybe yeah I definitely an 8

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000 in pain right now so it could be eight kilohertz

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you can doodle on it though you can if you go to the top right I think it

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should be under unfiled or something like that wow you could fax it you could

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beam it via IR yes wow you could beam it

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to other Newtons with ir or to a printer to print it or I could just delete it or

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you could delete it because that's under send for some reason that would never

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cause a problem having the delete button right next to the copy button

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hey lttstore.com let's go I had to get it in

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there somehow yeah don't go to that address I don't know what

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you can actually uh enable a drawing mode that does like vector shapes that

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actually lets you adjust to the points of the vector shapes so if you can't get

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it quite right with just the stylus which is a little fiddly it's not super

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accurate all the time in every corner of the Newton oh yeah I see it yeah and you

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can resize stuff in fact if you hold on anything just like touch and hold after

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that okay so when it squeaks what that's doing is highlighting so anything you

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highlight will be selected and this is system wide including text so with this selection

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you can now move it scale it let's make

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a stubby screwdriver oh the stubby that's more like the Precision

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screwdriver well uh undo undo

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I think the next thing for us to do is to connect this bad boy to the internet

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no I think the next thing to do is to try the keyboard shut up we got the

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keyboard yeah the same person who lent us this also lent us this no way I'm not

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even you know a huge Apple history geek

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or anything like that I didn't even really know about this thing other than

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that I saw a picture of it a couple times this is pretty cool I'm a little

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confused as to what exactly no way

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no way this is what holds it up it has

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the sharp side of a hook and loop Fastener and the soft side so it could

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be any angle you want as long as it's

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this angle it's the precursor to the magic keyboard and the folio

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a second can you switch it to landscape mode you sure can it should be noted by

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the way everything is done with the stylus I cannot use my fingers resistive

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not capacitive you can use your fingernail but I wouldn't recommend it

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it's not very good where are you going I don't auto dock no okay sorry if you go

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to the uh just close out of that

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it's like hurting a cat why would you hurt a cat s are nice I wouldn't hurt a

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cat you said no I said heard like gnu herd

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um I heard you right there on the bottom there is

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rotate okay because that's a perfectly reasonable place for that rebuilding

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display the button bar couldn't hold all

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the icons the overflow will show an

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unfiled icons the button bar is what you are using to interact with like the

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extras and stuff yeah that's basically like the dock when you change

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orientations there's more or less space for that I have a keyboard now which

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means I can okay so I what how do I

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uh okay no no let me figure it out let me figure it out I can do it it's Apple

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it's uh it just works text

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no no I'm gonna figure it out you have to power this thing on or what let the

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record show that I tried to say something okay I don't know how to do it

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I don't either oh uh either it doesn't work it doesn't

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work with this Newton or there's something I'm missing I looked at the

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manual I didn't really see anything about it I presume it's supposed to yeah

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it's just sorry I presume that it's supposed to just work this is just more

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velcro are you kidding me the 90s was

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the velcro era I would like to internet now

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this is how you will internet that power oh this is an airport one of

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the early models it actually has a three and a half millimeter Jack at the bottom

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so you can stream media over it it was kind of forward-thinking in that way but

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it's old enough that it can actually associate with this card because this

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card is too old to connect to our new access points even if I turned off

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authentication it just will not connect not at home not here it has to be

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something old card sort of that's where you would go to set

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it up I've already done that oh okay actually there's a couple different

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places you need to set up the internet on this thing it's it's a little it's

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it's not meant for this it was never built for Wi-Fi but if you go to Apple

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talk Connect using Lucent sure wow that's

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that that's a list yeah again this is more setup okay where you want to go I

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want to go to Doc

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go to the tab yes yes internet

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yes no way now try using Courier welcome

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to the old internet okay oh that probably remembered the same page that I

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had loaded up previously what you're going to want to do is maybe refresh the

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page try that whoop

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it's in Wi-Fi card connect and we should

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blink in lights no way checking his

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watch yeah this this is gonna this is gonna take a second this is Wireless B

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and this thing has one megabyte of RAM that's a million bytes It is Well a

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million that's a million of them but it's just more than that actually yeah

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it's a thousand twenty four of them times a thousand twenty four of them

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there's thousands 1024 of the 1024. no

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no no I gotta I'm gonna let you finish but this is actual text characters

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streaming in onto this page can I move

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this window yeah you can see you should yep well it's yeah it's currently like

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kind of busy-ish enter chat room every

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single time it has to reconnect and grab

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a new IP address pretty much yeah loading a web page is basically like

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loading a document to this thing everything's a document every time you

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load a web page it's a new document and

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so here we are well that's a pretty bad

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experience how about my calendar maybe my um wow stop

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there has never been a time when networking was good

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okay okay I think it might be finished yeah um no

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okay that's okay oh wow it's very

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confused now now we get to troubleshoot

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um it's it's not actually that bad open up the back door well I mean it's just

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take the door off the back there's a reset button there hey we're back

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yeah it's gonna do a bunch of stuff right now basically it's listing

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everything that's on the flash card and also whatever else might be installed

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what were we going to do next again right right right right right right I'm

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gonna make an event um

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oh yeah wow these are some very random sound

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effects they're Pleasant yeah but why would you play a different sound effect

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when I hit the same button look at this I'm going to press up a bunch of times

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yeah well what it's doing is it's playing the same sound effect but

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pitching it differently that way it doesn't get monotonous instead like beep beep beep beep

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fun what what is this a uh that might be the

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carrot oh yeah what's the carrot basically it's just where the text entry would be if you turned on the keyboard

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if you can actually summon the keyboard by double tapping the screen

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yes that was terrible uh okay well I

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just want to create a calendar event new new meeting

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oh new event oh title oh balls l t x yeah I set the date um

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one fun thing about the date it doesn't like dates after 2010. there's actually

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a community patch that is installed to let us run 2023 and and Beyond if you

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try 2010 It'll like revert back to the 90s or something or earlier the like

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days until will just like overflow and it's it's a whole thing so this is the

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the enhanced experience that nobody ever got back in the day l t x here we go

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here we go I think I got this oh uh uh

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uh uh on enter alarm

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one day I repeat every year cool this

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feels very familiar yeah they've even got the little mini view of the month oh

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yeah all day events just appear at the top so you can see the details okay what

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if we have a new meeting oh

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start time uh hello

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oh okay definitely PM oh

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oh wow you got a boy do you ever have to style this very precisely invitees I

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could invite Emily Young hey look at that well how are you gonna get this

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invitation well I mean when you sync it to your computer your computer will pull

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it into its calendar and then you can send off an email invite wow

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so convenient oh damn it I hit the wrong Little X that was right there or you

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could beam it via IR to another Newton

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it's fine with my me and my friends all bought Tunes a nest emulator exists

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uh-oh I forgot I put that in there oh no

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way no way no way okay Ness Mario Brothers

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sorry problem has occurred oh yeah the

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problem has occurred I'm not playing my damn game right now no wait wait whoa

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look at these controls this is my d-pad

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what the flip is freaking happening it's

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like pausing the whole thing whenever I press a thing

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did this just crack oh

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what is a and a hold and A Auto a hold

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basically means you're holding down the a button a is just a quick a tab so like

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a frame of a just because you can't really have those nuances so much with a

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stylus I guess I I don't know why speaking of nuances the d-pad I think is

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continuous once you touch it you can it keeps going in that direction uh that's

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what the middle button is for is to stop your movement also there's a sound

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button down in the bottom left this is quite possibly the single worst thing

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I've ever seen could you legitimately say that if you had this back in the day

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that you would not have appreciated that oh how to play games

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not this one I wouldn't have played a platformer as limited as this thing

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seems today though the specs on it were pretty monstrous for the time the Palm

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Pilot which came out at around the same time ended up being much more successful

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but had as little as half a megabyte of memory so it came at a lower price which

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probably has something to do with its success even though it had other

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limitations like even though both of them rely on the stylus for input Palm

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Pilot only recognized a special graffiti

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alphabet the Newton's claim to fame from Day Zero has been what apple called

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calligraphy though actually as I dug deeper after the shoot it turns out that

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the modern telling of this story online is shockingly inconsistent like the best

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I can determine from sources of the time is that the Newton's first generation

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used a licensed cursive recognition system called calligrapher from Dr

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Stephan pachikobs paragraph International the second generation

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system used in our message pad 2000 was based on an early machine learning

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technology and called Rosetta later in named Mondello because that name was

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already in use that was developed in-house by Apple's Advanced Technology

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Group led by Larry Yeager and went on to become Inkwell in macOS the more you

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know recognition software that would learn your handwriting over the course

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of weeks or months with the Newton you could write anywhere on the screen and

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this functionality would later make its way into macOS and iPad OS the only

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problem and the problem that may have killed the whole product line Steve Jobs

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being angry about anything that happened at Apple while he was gone aside is that

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handwriting recognition was not very good on the first models an example of

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over-promising and under delivering while an on-screen keyboard could be

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used and the recognition would improve in Newton OS 2.0 physical keyboards were

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such a common accessory that Apple launched the e-mate line with a keyboard

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built in and the 2000 line like this one would ship with those in the box now

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Steve Jobs who never forgave John Scully the CEO who ousted him in greenlit the

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Newton did end up count sling the product line not long after he retook

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the reins in 1997 but while he might not have liked the stylus famously quipping

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that were born with 10 of them he was almost certainly inspired by the device

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saying that there was really good technology that was picked up by

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management and shutting it down was more about freeing up good Engineers to work

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on a new mobile device as The Story Goes

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the concept for the iPhone began in 1999 and grew out of the perception that pdas

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and mobile phones would converge which turned out to be absolutely correct by

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that time the first true Blackberry devices were on the horizon and mobile

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phones had already taken on a more conventional candy bar shape with pixel

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based LCD screens rather than the fixed segmented displays that came in the past

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this meant that text messaging and basic functions like address books calendars

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and note-taking were now widely available right on a phone albeit with

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clutchy T9 dialing now while Wikipedia lists the Newton's success serve as the

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first gen iPad and the department head is actually the same person who pitched

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the Newton in the first place it's pretty clear that the concepts the

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design know-how and a lot of the features that made the Newton unique

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directly morphed into the iPhone first and a lot of that DNA is still in iOS

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iPad OS macOS and yes whether we like

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because things were headed in a pretty uh Direction at one point