Have you ever wonder which is the first Message pad no than read this you must like this
The Message Pad is the first series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple for the Newton platform in 1993.And Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of Apple's Message Pad devices was undertaken in Japan by the Sharp Corporation
This awesome device based on the ARM 610 RISC processor and this device is mainly featured handwriting recognition software.It just amazing feeling at that time in 90's when you use gadget's like that
With the Message Pad 120 a Newton Keyboard by Apple is available, which can also be used via the dongle on Newton devices with a Newton InterConnect port
Newton devices featuring Newton OS 2.1 or higher come with amazing feature at that time like it can be turned horizontally ("landscape") as well as vertically ("portrait"). A change of a setting rotates the contents of the display by 90, 180 or 270 degrees. Handwriting recognition still works properly with the display rotated
Main feature of this device is Handwriting recognition and In initial versions the handwriting recognition gave extremely mixed results for users and was sometimes inaccurate. The original handwriting recognition engine was called Calligrapher, Calligrapher's design was quite sophisticated it attempted to learn the user's natural handwriting, using a database of known words to make guesses as to what the user was writing, and could interpret writing anywhere on the screen, whether hand-printed, in cursive
Text could also be entered by tapping with the stylus on a small on-screen pop-up QWERTY virtual keyboard, although more layouts were developed by users. Newton devices could also accept free-hand "Sketches", "Shapes", and "Ink Text" Newton could recognize that the
user was attempting to draw a circle, a line, a polygon, etc.At any time a user could also direct their Newton device to recognize selected "ink text" and turn it into recognized text. A Newton note (or the notes attached to each contact in Names and each Dates calendar or to-do event) could contain any mix of interleaved text, Ink Text, Shapes, and Sketches.
The Message Pad 100 series of devices used Macintosh's proprietary serial ports—round
Mini-DIN 8 connectors. The Message Pad 2000/2100 models (as well as the eMate 300) have
a small, proprietary Newton InterConnect port.
The original Apple MessagePad and MessagePad 100 used four AAA batteries. They were
eventually replaced by AA batteries with the release of the Apple MessagePad 110.
The use of 4 AA NiCd (MessagePad 110, 120 and 130) and 4x AA NiMH cells
(MP2x00 series, eMate 300) give a runtime of up to 30 hours (MP2100 with two 20 MB Linear
Flash memory PC Cards, no backlight usage) and up to 24 hours with backlight on.
THIS IS EXTREMELY AMAZING GADGET AT THAT TIME IF ANYBODY BORN IN 90'S THAN HE MUST FEEL THE AWESOMENESS OF THIS GADGET
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