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| Apple poured resources into Newton. The company hired psychologists to make sure that everybody on the Newton team was mentally healthy. |
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| In 1992 Apple had little experience building consumer devices, so it would be much less expensive to contract Newton manufacturing to Sharp. |
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| For two years, the Newton researchers had toiled away, creating mockups and sample software. Several prototype tablets were initially built. |
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| Knowledge Navigator was going to be a tablet the size of an opened magazine, and it would have very sophisticated artificial intelligence. |
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| The PC to Apple MessagePad cable is not a hardware handshake cable. Both the Newton and the PC are capable of handling the communications. |
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| Due to a bug the Newton MessagePad 100's Extra drawer can only handle a total of 30 icons. The MessagePad 100 ships with 10 built-in icons. |
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| Grayscale printing was introduced as a feature of the MessagePad 2000 and eMate 300 series computers under Newton Operating System 2.1. |
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| An important design goal of the Newton project encompassed by all Newton PDA computers was to provide an immediate ready state at all times. |
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| To access the audio recording preferences on a 2x00 or eMate, tap the Prefs application in the Extras drawer and choose the recording view. |
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| Although the eMate 300 can read and write to 5-volt PC Cards, 12-volt flash memory cards are treated as read-only due to an incompatibility. |
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| Before you install any system update, you should back up your Newton using the Newton Connection Utilities application or a PC storage card. |
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| In order to import information from your desktop computer into Newton Works, a Newton Works soup, must exist in the desired storage area. |
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| The only reason to use the Newton Backup Utility with the Newton 1.3 OS is if you are upgrading an Apple MessagePad 120 to Newton 2.0 OS. |
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| Beginning on December 1, 1995, customers with a 1.x OS MessagePad 120, were given the option to pay $109 to upgrade to the Newton OS 2.0. |
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| Newton packages can access the data in another package's soup. A fax editor package can make use of the Names soup for its address book. |
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| The Newton OS architecture is targeted at being a personal assistant. As an assistant all of its functions should be available all the time. |
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| The Apple Newton OS partitions memory in three distinct areas or domains: operating system domain, storage domain and application domain. |
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| The electro luminescent panel used for backlighting on some Apple Newton devices loses brightness gradually over thousands of hours of use. |
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| Application cards contain commercial Newton software and are usually ROM-based. This means the data contained on them cannot be modified, |
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