Stylus Pen for the Apple Newton MessagePad Model H1000
date: label: Date made
content: 1993
name: label: maker
content: Apple Computer, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Apple Computer Corporation introduced its Newton personal digital assistant in 1993. Data was to be entered using stylus pens like this one (the donor provided three). Although the instrument was rich with features, high cost and poor handwriting recognition led to commercial failure.
label: Description
content: See 1999.0290.01 for the Apple Newton itself.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: James F. Young
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0290.02
label: accession number
content: 1999.0290
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0290.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Portable Computer, Personal Digital Assistant Component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 1 cm x .4 cm; 5 1/8 in x 3/8 in x 3/16 in