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rocksteady 05-13-2009 08:55 PM

back to retro, anyone remembers Newton?

http://www.infinitemac.com/picture.p...6&pictureid=10

http://www.infinitemac.com/picture.p...6&pictureid=11


I used to run a webserver on 4 AA batteries :)

naquaada 05-13-2009 09:06 PM

Yes, I also have one, but only a Newton 120 and it's defective too.

Here is a link which directs to a website hosted on a C64 server.

rocksteady 05-13-2009 09:12 PM

One of the living legends of Newton community lives near Hamburg/Germany, he used to service mine back in the day when I was using it 24/7. Mine still works ok, I used to abuse the backlight (must have replaced it a couple of times).

Valentine 05-13-2009 10:51 PM

I still got the original one bought in '94. Got it out 3 month ago and was still impresst by the concept, even though the first one was too slow and not much of use in daily life.
Realy had a Star Trek feel to it in '94.

rocksteady 05-14-2009 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Valentine (Post 26456)
Realy had a Star Trek feel to it in '94.

ditto,

I got mine (MP2100) in '97 when handwriting recognition was working fine. I still find Larry Yeager's work impressive, I'm a tablet-type and this technology still lives under MacOS X's Ink.

Valentine 05-14-2009 12:24 AM

Great!
A. Does it still exist in OS X 10.5?
B. Are there any OSx86 compatable input devices?

rocksteady 05-14-2009 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Valentine (Post 26461)
Great!
A. Does it still exist in OS X 10.5?

oh yeah!

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Originally Posted by Valentine (Post 26461)
B. Are there any OSx86 compatable input devices?

I guess any MacOS-compatible wacom would play nice with the hacks (unless there're generic usb issues on a particular mobo). Here's the Wireless model working as it should on my hack:

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Valentine 05-14-2009 08:59 PM

Very interesting, thanks.

naquaada 05-15-2009 06:28 PM

Whoops, just forgot: I set up a folder with some Amiga modules some time ago. They're converted to MP3 format, icnluding correct tags and covers for iTunes. Here you go.

00010 02-02-2010 04:39 PM

What about the Apple IIe? Now thats an awesome machine...