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The Newton, The First PDA
Anecdotes about the development of the Newton, the world's first PDA (3 stories)
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The Original MessagePad:  (3)
What recognizing "Jabberwocky" teaches us about the Newton's handwriting recognition algorithms. From a Usenet posting.
Date: December 1993
Author: Paul Potts
Topics: Handwriting Recognition,The Original MessagePad,The Print Recognizer
Comments:  2
Rating:  (4.0)
How I learned of the Newton and fell in love. By a third-party hardware developer.
Date: undated
Author: Frank Gruendel
Topics: The Original MessagePad,Third Party Developers
Comments:  0
Rating:  (3.0)
Hardware developer Frank and his second half use the Newton's faxing feature for the first time.
Date: undated
Author: Frank Gruendel
Topics: Newton features,Third Party Developers,The Original MessagePad
Comments:  0
Rating:  (3.0)

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