Apple Newton MessagePad Model H1000
date: label: date made
content: 1993
name: label: maker
content: Apple Computer, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Apple released the Newton MessagePad Model H1000 in 1993 as one of the first personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. The device sported a 20 megahertz ARM 610 processor with 630 kilobytes of RAM and was powered by four AAA batteries. The MessagePad was designed to store contacts, notes, and calendars, and to provide word processing and rudimentary Internet browsing. The MessagePad’s most revolutionary feature was that it accepted handwriting input via a pen stylus. The novelty of handwriting recognition soon became notorious due its buggy translations, lampooned in popular culture, most notably in a week of Doonesbury comic strips.
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content: References:
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content: Apple, Inc., <i>Newton Apple MessagePad Handbook</i>, 1995.
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content: Kevin Strehlo, “Apple’s MessagePad is an Expensive Gadget at Best,” <i>Info World</i>, August 30, 1993, 1 & 104.
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James F. Young
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0290.01
label: accession number
content: 1999.0290
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0290.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: portable computer, personal digital assistant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.2 cm x 11.4 cm x 2.4 cm; 7 5/32 in x 4 1/2 in x 15/16 in