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The Newton, The First PDA
Anecdotes about the development of the Newton, the world's first PDA (11 stories)
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” -- Margaret Mead
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from Anna Johnson on 2011-09-28 04:08:38  about Newton Jabberwocky
I find this interesting as an owner to a (now broken unfortunately) MP 130. I always preferred the cursive recognition as it was more accurate with me personally, but I was cleaning out a bin and I chanced upon something funny I scribbled on paper regarding my Newt. Most of the time, after owning it a while, it was for most part balls-on-exact with recognizing my writing (which is a huge feat considering that I'm dysgraphic). But every so often she'd go all "egg freckles" on me and spur a really funny interpretation (probably when memory or battery was low and things were lagging out it seemed). That was the scribbled contents of this paper that I found today. According to this paper, I wrote: "Sync Newton with computer. Don't let Newton overwrite Mac entry" Resulting translation: "Spur Weirton melt pollen don't let hurling over crumbs Mars entry." Pretty epic, huh?

from Allen Baum on 2008-03-26 00:05:18  about Newton Jabberwocky
I find it interesting that the Newton dictionary had the word Putz in it...


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