My Man Newton: Six Months with a Personal Digital Assistant
From February 1994 we present this article by Don Montabana in the PennPrintout, the University of Pennsylvania's online computing magazine. It begins:
"Just over two years ago John Scully, the former CEO of Apple, introduced the term "personal digital assistant" (PDA) to describe the as-yet-unreleased Newton. This new device, by many accounts, was heralded as the next step in silicon's evolutionary path--a device that would dramatically expand current communications and computing capabilities by including handwriting recognition as well as a new operating system, which would work intelligently both with and for the user."

My Man Newton: Six Months with a Personal Digital Assistant

Apple's Copland Project: An OS for the Common Man
The latest interesting Apple History article from Tom Hormby at Low End Mac. It Begins:
"In 1995, Microsoft was busy promoting the latest release of Windows, Windows 95. Apple was confident that users would still be attracted to the Mac because of its interface, but also worried that Windows' multitasking environment would put Mac OS 7.5.x to shame."

Apple's Copland Project: An OS for the Common Man

Crowd Gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30th
From CNET News "MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--If you've never seen a couple hundred bona-fide geeks sitting on the edge of their seats with excitement, you should have been on hand Saturday for an appreciation of the 30th anniversary of the Homebrew Computer Club."

Read more: Crowd Gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30th

Joining the Mac Group
Another bit of folklore at Folklore.org. This time Bruce Horn brings us the story of how the Reality Distortion Field changes his mind about working at Apple.

Joining the Mac Group

A History of the Color Classic
Another interesting Apple history article by the talented Tom Hormby at Low End Mac. This time he tackles the beloved Color Classic. As Tom writes, "The Color Classic has been lauded by many Mac faithful as what the original Macintosh should have been."

A History of the Color Classic

The Invisible Newton
From Pen Computing Magazine #10, June 1996, "Newton Notes" column we bring you this article subtitled, "How great designs become appliances" by David MacNeill.
From the Introduction:
"For reasons that no one would want to read about in a computer magazine, I have moved many times in the past three years. As a result, I have had the opportunity to hear comments from a wide variety of people concerning my one constant companion during this time: a Newton MessagePad."

The Invisible Newton: How Great Designs Become Appliances

Macintosh System 7.5 Reviewed
Set the wayback machine. This Charles Stross review, which originally appeared in Computer Shopper begins:
"The new Apple Macintosh system: is it more of the same? Or is it really a cunningly-disguised revolution?
System 7.5 is Apple's latest operating system release. Intended to run on power Macintosh hardware (as well as older 68000-based Macintoshii), it rolls a whole bundle of technologies into Apple's core operating system. Some of what it offers is rehashed from last years' System 7 Pro release, targeted at high-end users; but a lot of it is completely new."

Macintosh System 7.5 Reviewed

Apple Gets an A
"Its Newton-based eMate for schools is both kid-friendly and kid-proof". So begins a 1997 review at BuisinessWeek.com of the quirky and somewhat whimsical eMate 300 "Mini-Laptop", as it was called by some.

Apple Gets an A

Apple Macintosh PowerExpress
The DigiBarn Computer Museum displays this rare Apple prototype. Tons of pictures document this only surviving example.
"The following system (a prototype) was given to us by an anonymous former Apple manager who was a manager of the attempt by Apple of creating a system powerful enough to compete with Avid, which then dominated the nonlinear video editing market. The following was one of fifty systems built by Apple for internal development. According to the manager this is the only one that survived, the other 49 having gone into the crusher."

DigiBarn Systems: Apple Macintosh PowerExpress

MessagePad 130: The Entry-Level Handheld Computer
To compliment the addition of a 1996 Newton MessagePad 130 Ad to The Mothership Advertising and Brochure Gallery we present this page at Oldschool.net detailing the Newton 130.

MessagePad 130: The Entry-Level Handheld Computer