Kevin Strehlo, “Apple’s MessagePad is an Expensive Gadget at Best,” Info World, August 30, 1993, 1 & 104. Newton MessagePad 130 Print ad Item Preview apple-newton-messagepad-130-advertisement-from-macuser-12963235417445o.jpg. 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.Īpple, Inc., Newton Apple MessagePad Handbook, 1995. The MessagePad’s most revolutionary feature was that it accepted handwriting input via a pen stylus. The MessagePad was designed to store contacts, notes, and calendars, and to provide word processing and rudimentary Internet browsing. The device sported a 20 megahertz ARM 610 processor with 630 kilobytes of RAM and was powered by four AAA batteries. The NMP 130 was discontinued in April 1997. The most apparent new feature was the on-demand backlit screen, which used very little extra power. Apple released the Newton MessagePad Model H1000 in 1993 as one of the first personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Released in March 1996, The NMP 130 was a modest feature-upgrade of the NMP 120.
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