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A Personal History of the Newton Adam Tow World Wide Newton Conference September 4, 2004 Who Would Have Thought? The more things change... PowerBook 180 MessagePad 100 PowerBook G4 12-inch MessagePad 2100 The more they stay the same...

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A Personal History of the Newton

Adam Tow World Wide Newton Conference September 4, 2004

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Who Would Have Thought?

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The more things change...

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PowerBook G4 12-inch MessagePad 2100 MessagePad 100 PowerBook 180

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The more they stay the same...

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... except now I take better photos!

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Labor Strikes in 1995

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Labor Strikes in 2004

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Adam in Strasbourg in 1995

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Adam at Apple Expo Paris 2004

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Newton Beginnings 1993

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Newton Beginnings

MacWeek, MacWorld, and MacUser articles MacWorld Boston Saw It, Tried It, Want It September 1993 Bought an Original MessagePad shortly before starting first year at Stanford

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The utility of having computing power with you at all times

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Newton prototype at La Défense, Paris

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Started using the Newton for taking notes in class, organizing my calendar and keeping track of contacts

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Of course, I never synced my data to my desktop

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this was before the days of non-volatile Flash memory

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Went to my first Stanford Newton User Group meeting in 1994

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Only to meet people like...

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Knowing nothing of programming and facial hair...

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I fled back to the comfortable confines

  • f Stanford University...
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and learned how to program for the Newton

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First off the assembly line was Stanford Map

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Stanford Map

An interactive map of Stanford University. Users can click on a building to see its name and use Find to search for a particular building.

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Foundation Systems 1994

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Born out of a passion to write software for myself and others...

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... and also from rejection!

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Stanford Viennese Ball

http:/ /www.stanford.edu/group/viennese/

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“Sorry, I’m going to be working in the machine shop that night. ”

Source: http:/ /www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/mfd/images/staff.jpg

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As for me, instead of attending the Ball, I sat in my dorm room and wrote the bulk of...

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The loudest alarm clock for the Newton. It will even wake the living dead!

AlarmClock

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AlarmClock was the first of many software packages that I wrote for the Newton

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Other Software

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Learned human interface design by designing software

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Not by sitting in a class!

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Of course, my programming skills are no match for those of Paul, Simon, Larry, and

  • thers!
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Stanford in France 1995

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Stanford in France

Studied in Paris during Fall Quarter 95-96 Brought my PowerBook 180 and Newton MessagePad 100 (upgraded OMP) Lived in the 6e arrondissement

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Institut Hongrois I used to pass this building several times a week!

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Stanford in France

Took my notes in class using my MP and Graffiti 1.0 Graffiti handled accented characters Newton OS 2.0 was released during this time Internet was so slow in 1995, I didn’t learn about it until I had returned!

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Newton Development 1996–1998

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Attended the Newton Technology Conference in 1996 Think Fast! Graduated in 1997 with an eye towards running Foundation Systems full-time Business doing well up until 1998

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Newton’ s Cancellation 1998

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Newton, Inc. was going to be spun-off as a wholly-owned subsidiary in 1997

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Business cards were printed, badges were made, and production line for the MP2100 changed to use the Newton, Inc. logo

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Source: www.unna.org

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Instead of the Apple Logo

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Then Gil Amelio was pushed out as CEO and the prodigal son

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Steve Jobs returned

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Newton, Inc. rolled back into Apple in late 1997

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Letter to Steve Jobs

Homma’ s Brown Rice Sushi, a popular restaurant in Palo Alto

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“Adam, The Emate has a bright future - and it is for this reason that I am pulling it back into Apple -which has the resouces to market and sell it much more broadly. You can imagine that a small spin-off company would not have such a large sales force or marketing budget. With the appropriate investments in sales and marketing, we hope that the Emate can become a great success. We are a little more confused about the MessagePad. Since it costs more ($1K or more vs $700-799 for the Emate) and has no keyboard, its market seems more limited than the

  • Emate. However, sales of the current MessagePad are brisk,

so who knows... What do you think? Don't worry - we are pulling this group back into Apple so that we can invest even more sales and marketing resources into these products, rather than dumping the products into a small spin-off which lacks such resources. Best, Steve”

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We knew something was going to happen on February 27, 1998, but we didn’t know what

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Would they sell Newton to another company?

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Would they discontinue Newton?

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What did I do that morning?

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I went for a three-hour bike ride!

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... and, when I returned home after cycling...

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“Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it will discontinue further development of the Newton operating system and Newton OS- based products”

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The Newton Protest March 6, 1998

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Held at Apple campus in Cupertino 70-100 protesters Coverage in CNet, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minnesota Public Radio Peaceful protest Organized with Ed Martin of MarWare

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What Did Steve Do?

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Let Them Eat Milk and Cookies!

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Looking back...

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Apple had to do drastic things to survive at the time

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Would you rather have Mac OS X or Newton today?

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'93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 10 20 30 40

11.03 16.37 18.51 11.10 10.85 19.07 31.66 25.75 15.51 14.50 20.72 35.66

AAPL 9/93–9/04

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What if they sold the assets to another company?

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Nearly everyone who knew how things worked were gone

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Many were at Palm, General Magic, OmniSky, Microsoft, etc.

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No one remained to move the product forward had it stayed at or left Apple

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Today, bits and pieces

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are making appearances in OS X

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Inkwell Sharing of data across different applications Notes, Dates, Names, Email, & Calls Address Book, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, & Mail Resolution-independent screens

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Moving On 1998-2001

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1998-2001 were lean years for the Newton community

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But now, we are back!

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The Competitive Landscape

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Arguably Handwriting recognition is still the best Mobile computing interface most elegant and simple One of the most connected and expandable, hardware devices

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Newton Renaissance 2001-2004

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Many of the advances in Newton have come from people who were not early Newton users/developers

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Paul Guyot Eckhart Köppen Hiroshi Noguchi Daniel Padilla

Developers

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Old Timers

Simon Bell Steve Weyer Sean Luke Adam Tow

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Hardware Guys

Frank Gründel David Humphreys

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Evangelists

Robert Benschop Grant Hutchinson Woo Lee Victor Rehorst

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Technologies that became mainstream following Newton’ s demise

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Internet Communications Wireless Personal Web Sites Music Players Digital Photography

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Newton was designed from the beginning to communicate

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Fax Beam Wireless Print Sync Email

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If Newton weren’t designed so well to begin with, none of this would have been possible

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Internet

NPDS, Newton Personal Data Sharing Newton = Webserver http:/ /npds.free.fr/ Raissa nBlog

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Communications

802.11b Wireless Driver http:/ /www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/ newtwave.htm Remember Ricochet? Blunt Bluetooth Driver Nitro IrDA Stack http:/ /www.40hz.org/ Simple Mail and Mail V http:/ /dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/road/ aah66/

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Synchronization

NewtSync Desktop Connection Library (DCL) Packager Ronnie Simon on Windows

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Music on the Newton

MAD Max iTunes plug-in MP3 Decoder ATA Support Gigabytes of music using PC Card slots and memory cards

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Storage Expansion

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ATA Support

Enables the use of ATA storage cards on the Newton Use of Compact Flash, Secure Digital, Smart Media, MMC, and Memory Stick memory cards via PC Card adapter http:/ /www.kallisys.com/newton/ata/

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The Wireless “NewtPod”

4GB Hitachi MicroDrive in PC Card Adapter ATA Support D-Link 802.11b Wireless Card 802.11b WaveLAN

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Communities 1993-2004

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Stanford Newton User Group

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Remember Rosie?

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Now, I’m just like him!

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SNUG

Meets every fourth Tuesday of the month Printer’ s, Inc. Café on South California Avenue in Palo Alto 8:00–10:30 pm

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We’re a group of friends today

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Flash Glen Lunatic

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Kevin Dave Devin (we are always looking for new members)

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Peter Randeep

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Robert

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Greg Sir Izaac

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Wayne

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SNUG Anniversaries

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SNUG Anniversaries

Guests of Honor have included: David Fedor, Maurice Sharp of DTS Walter Smith, father of NewtonScript Brian Parker, creator of Napalm and NewtChat

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SNUG 9th Anniversary Meeting 2003

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SNUG 10th Anniversary Meeting 2004

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10 years going strong!

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SNUG 10th Anniversary Meeting 2004

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The Greater Newton Community

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http:/ /www.newtontalk.net

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The community provides

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Technical Support

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Hardware Upgrades

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SER-001 Serial Port Card

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Accelerator Boards

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Internal Memory Expansion

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Replacement Backlights

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Conclusions

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Newton never dies,

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it just gets new batteries!

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for now, at least

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Thank You!