1991 – 1997retired
Apple OneScanner
“Eight bits of grey, one big button, and patience. Rest easy, old scanner.”
“It read your handwriting before you could — and forgave you anyway.”
The Newton was a series of personal digital assistants from Apple Computer, sold from 1993 to 1998 — a device so early to the PDA category that the term itself originated with it, and the first to feature handwriting recognition. Running on its own Newton OS, it was opened up to third-party licensees who built devices alongside Apple's MessagePad line. Conceived by Steve Sakoman in 1987 as a tablet-like device with h
Introduced on May 29, 1992 with shipments beginning August 2, 1993, the Newton was marred by issues before its public release. It was discontinued in 1998, five years after the first units shipped. But its fingerprints are everywhere: the ARM6-based RISC processor Acorn developed for it, and the PDA category it named, outlived the product itself.
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“Eight bits of grey, one big button, and patience. Rest easy, old scanner.”
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