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Announcing a new release of the Newton Glossary!
This edition contains over 2,160 terms, definitions, acronyms, colloquialisms, cross-references, and trivia related to the #AppleNewton.
Since the last month’s update, another 71 terms and 6 sources have been added.
Latest additions:
https://newtonglossary.com/latest
Full release notes:
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Ethernet! LocalTalk! TCP/IP!
Thirty years ago today, the Newton Internet Enabler 2.0 was announced.
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Dinner came to an end, and several of the assembled knights opened up their refurbished Psions and Apple Newtons to commence the evening's jestposting.
Our Lady Joan Mastodon finished her bowl of rhubarb crumble (she loved rhubarb crumble and always took seconds), then she spoke:
Remember, my friends, we toot for The Now. Don't toot for the archives. There's no chisel and marble in the Fediverse, my friends, only our frail temporary voices, heard in the moment, then forgotten. Jest away. And thank you, Sir Alfred, for tonight's rhubarb crumble. It was very good. You've surpassed yourself.
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Dinner came to an end, and several of the assembled knights opened up their refurbished Psions and Apple Newtons to commence the evening's jestposting.
Our Lady Joan Mastodon finished her bowl of rhubarb crumble (she loved rhubarb crumble and always took seconds), then she spoke:
Remember, my friends, we toot for The Now. Don't toot for the archives. There's no chisel and marble in the Fediverse, my friends, only our frail temporary voices, heard in the moment, then forgotten. Jest away. And thank you, Sir Alfred, for tonight's rhubarb crumble. It was very good. You've surpassed yourself.
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Dinner came to an end, and several of the assembled knights opened up their refurbished Psions and Apple Newtons to commence the evening's jestposting.
Our Lady Joan Mastodon finished her bowl of rhubarb crumble (she loved rhubarb crumble and always took seconds), then she spoke:
Remember, my friends, we toot for The Now. Don't toot for the archives. There's no chisel and marble in the Fediverse, my friends, only our frail temporary voices, heard in the moment, then forgotten. Jest away. And thank you, Sir Alfred, for tonight's rhubarb crumble. It was very good. You've surpassed yourself.
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Dinner came to an end, and several of the assembled knights opened up their refurbished Psions and Apple Newtons to commence the evening's jestposting.
Our Lady Joan Mastodon finished her bowl of rhubarb crumble (she loved rhubarb crumble and always took seconds), then she spoke:
Remember, my friends, we toot for The Now. Don't toot for the archives. There's no chisel and marble in the Fediverse, my friends, only our frail temporary voices, heard in the moment, then forgotten. Jest away. And thank you, Sir Alfred, for tonight's rhubarb crumble. It was very good. You've surpassed yourself.
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Dinner came to an end, and several of the assembled knights opened up their refurbished Psions and Apple Newtons to commence the evening's jestposting.
Our Lady Joan Mastodon finished her bowl of rhubarb crumble (she loved rhubarb crumble and always took seconds), then she spoke:
Remember, my friends, we toot for The Now. Don't toot for the archives. There's no chisel and marble in the Fediverse, my friends, only our frail temporary voices, heard in the moment, then forgotten. Jest away. And thank you, Sir Alfred, for tonight's rhubarb crumble. It was very good. You've surpassed yourself.
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Thirty one years ago today, Apple announced a rebate program on the #MessagePad 120, making the device more affordable to a wider audience.
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The #AppleNewton platform has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ethernet, and cellular capability. Agreed, it did not have these things when it launched (and barely had them when it was unfortunately “Steved” five years later) … but you can use all of these technologies now … with a nearly thirty year old device.
https://tech.lgbt/@dgriffinjones/116505552059524808 -
@splorp it was packed this year! Can’t wait for next year!
#vcfpnw
#retrocomputing
#AppleNewton #Macintosh #portable #BeigeTown -
@splorp it was packed this year! Can’t wait for next year!
#vcfpnw
#retrocomputing
#AppleNewton #Macintosh #portable #BeigeTown -
@splorp it was packed this year! Can’t wait for next year!
#vcfpnw
#retrocomputing
#AppleNewton #Macintosh #portable #BeigeTown -
@splorp it was packed this year! Can’t wait for next year!
#vcfpnw
#retrocomputing
#AppleNewton #Macintosh #portable #BeigeTown -
@splorp it was packed this year! Can’t wait for next year!
#vcfpnw
#retrocomputing
#AppleNewton #Macintosh #portable #BeigeTown -
Searching for a camera battery charger, might as well peek in the small computing friends tub #applenewton #messagepad
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This image from today’s VCF event illustrates the intersection of computing devices with rainbow Apple logos and computing devices that run on AA batteries.
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I've suggested a #retroComputing BoF for tomorrow at #oggcamp2026 based on the interest of people stopping me to ask about the #appleNewton I'm note taking on today.
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Thirty years ago today, Apple announced expanded email capabilities for the #Newton platform with the availability of a #CompuServe Mail Client.
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RE: https://tech.lgbt/@DosFox/116364875603363574
My other computer is an #AppleNewton #MessagePad
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Some light #retroComputing reading arrived for the long weekend..
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Here’s a little tidbit from my #AppleNewton collection.
(As requested by @haineux, @stack, and @Eggfreckles)
This is a Newton “Dummy” Product for use as part of retail display.
I’ve had this item for years and thought I’d photographed it, but the box had never been opened.
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@csilverman @likesoldmacs @morgant @splorp I've only just found out about the #Newton Defying Gravity book and have immediately ordered a copy!
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Announcing a new release of the Newton Glossary!
This edition contains over 2,090 terms, definitions, acronyms, colloquialisms, cross-references, and trivia related to the #AppleNewton.
Since the last month’s update, another 63 terms and 5 sources have been added.
Latest additions:
https://newtonglossary.com/latest
Full release notes:
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@likesoldmacs @csilverman crumbs, like #appleNewton big brother
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Twenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped its Newton Toolkit development tool for Windows. “[It] gives developers the platform independence they desire.”
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Twenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped the #MessagePad 2000, billed as “ … a mobile computer for the business professional and one of the fastest handheld Internet computers on the market.”
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Twenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped the #MessagePad 2000, billed as “ … a mobile computer for the business professional and one of the fastest handheld Internet computers on the market.”
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Twenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped the #MessagePad 2000, billed as “ … a mobile computer for the business professional and one of the fastest handheld Internet computers on the market.”
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Twenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped the #MessagePad 2000, billed as “ … a mobile computer for the business professional and one of the fastest handheld Internet computers on the market.”
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Twenty nine years ago today, Apple shipped the #MessagePad 2000, billed as “ … a mobile computer for the business professional and one of the fastest handheld Internet computers on the market.”
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Gonna bring my #appleNewton to @oggcamp
Anyone else in #uk got one to bring ? We can beam like it's 1996 ...
#geek #retro #retroComputing #newton #newtonos #oggCamp #oggCamp2026
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It’s times like this that require me to remind people that there’s a variation of Bad Apple playing on an #AppleNewton device.
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Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.
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Twenty nine years ago today, Apple introduced the eMate 300 … in all of its translucent clamshell glory.
#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing
#ItsNotEasyBeingGreenhttps://everymac.com/systems/apple/messagepad/stats/emate_300.html
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Twenty eight years ago today, Apple discontinued development of #NewtonOS and its related hardware products.
Yet, here we are.
#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing
#BleedingGreenhttps://web.archive.org/web/20040528183253/http://www.apple.com/pr/library/1998/feb/27newton.html
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@AncTreat5358 Speaking from over three decades of experience, the #AppleNewton is still beloved, supported, and being developed for. Check out the mailing list and see.
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@tantramar @harold If I had built this database, it wouldn’t be nearly as big of a challenge. This is a mostly German language database of #AppleNewton resources created by Apple GmbH in 1995. Password protected, of course.
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Thirty years ago today, Apple shipped Newton Press for Mac OS … “making it easy to take important documents from their Mac OS-based personal computer with them on their Newton PDA.”
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Just arrived from Japan!
I hope the floppy still works.
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Thirty one years ago today, Apple announced the availability of the Newton #MessagePad 120, with “enhanced features.”
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Update: I found it!
Attention #AppleNewton users … does anyone happen to have a copy of Enfour’s Japanese Newton Language Kit (NLK)?
It was made available to #MessagePad owners running the Japanese version of #NewtonOS.
Not sure if was a download of on CD. Even an exported copy of the packages would suffice.
Boosts welcome.
https://web.archive.org/web/19981206221059/http://www.enfour.co.jp/newton/news/nlk.html
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This may be a long shot, but I’m looking to get in contact with Jeremy Templer who wrote the “Newton Assist” column that appeared in Macworld Australia.
He was a partner with SureFire Search Marketing based in New Zealand, but that company was shuttered in 2024.
Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.
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Twenty nine years ago today, Qualcomm announced the availability of its Eudora Pro email client for #NewtonOS at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Thirty years ago today, Apple announced Newton Toolkit 1.6 with full support of #NewtonOS 2.0 at Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
“… a new standard for integration between PDAs and personal computers.”
