“If you lived only on the Internet, you might not know that Apple’s Newton, the father of all personal digital assistants, was discontinued in 1998,” Dunstan Prial reports for FOXBusiness.
“About three times the size of most contemporary PDAs, the Newton was the predecessor to the Palm Pilot. But unlike the gadgets that followed in its wake, the Newton has a feature that continues to fascinate and attract users – it recognizes handwriting,” Prial reports.
“There are Newton blogs, Newton Web sites (organized by something called the United Network of Newton Archives), Newton social networking sites, an annual Worldwide Newton Conference, and seemingly more chatrooms dedicated to the handheld devices than just about any other gadget ever made,” Prial reports.
“Newton fans–some might call them fanatics — have kept the gadgets memory alive by staying in touch mostly on the Internet, where they trade innovations and software updates that allow them to keep up with contemporary shifts in PDA technology,” Prial reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Citymark” for the heads up.]