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Newton MessagePad
Copyright 1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
The Newton MessagePad is the first in a family of communications assistants
from Apple. By combining Newton Intelligence technology with sophisticated
communications capabilities, the Newton MessagePad helps you stay in touch with
friends and colleagues, organize your life, and keep track of your ideas. You
can take notes. Make a quick sketch. Format and print letters. Share and
synchronize information with your personal computer. Send a fax. Receive pages
and messages. Tap into on-line services or electronic mail. Even exchange
business cards with a colleague via built-in infrared technology. And wherever
you go, the power-ful, under-one-pound personal digital assistant goes too,
tucked in your pocket or briefcase.
As easy to use as pencil and paper, the Newton MessagePad lets you leave your
notes handwritten or reads your handwriting and transforms it into typed text.
If you prefer, you can type words using an on-screen keyboard. It even cleans
up your rough sketches. And as time goes by, it learns about you, your
handwriting, and the way you work.
Because the Newton MessagePad is designed to know how you work, it can help you
work smarter. For example, the Newton MessagePad can find a phone number and
dial the phone for you, fax a note, format a letter, and even set up a lunch
appointment.
The Newton MessagePad comes with built-in applications that include a notepad,
to-do list, datebook, and name file to get you started. When you're ready, you
can customize your Newton MessagePad to include Apple and third-party software
and hardware additions as well.
Features
Built-in applications
Let you capture, organize, and communicate all kinds of information
Allow free-form notetaking -- mixing ink handwriting, printed text, and
graphics all on the same page
Turn printed or cursive handwriting into typed text or leave it as ink
Track tasks via a to-do list that helps you assign priorities, lets you check
off completed tasks, and then updates the next day's list for you
Let you create name files with a familiar, business-card look and feel that
help you store information on hundreds of colleagues and friends
Help you plan monthly, weekly, and daily calendars
Include an assortment of informa tion and productivity tools (such as time-zone
maps, calculator, and currency-exchange formulas)
Communications capabilities
Send notes or messages, schedule appointments, or exchange business cards with
other nearby Newton users via built-in, infrared beaming technology
Print formatted letters and notes to serial and parallel printers
Send faxes anywhere with an optional compact fax modem
Receive and store wireless paging messages with the optional Newton Messaging
Card
Share information and keep files synchronized and updated with personal
computers running Microsoft Windows or with Macintosh computers (requires
Newton Connection Kit)
Tap into electronic mail and on-line services with an optional compact fax
modem
Intelligent assistance
Knows how you work and actively assists you in completing tasks
Assists you in making phone calls, faxing, finding information, sending
electronic mail, printing, scheduling meetings, and completing to-do lists
Technical Specifications
Newton Intelligence
Newton Recognition Architecture
-- Recognizes handwriting: printed, cursive, or mixed word recognition
-- Recognizes graphics and the inherent symmetry in objects
Newton Information Architecture
-- Object-oriented data storage optimized for storing, finding, and linking
small pieces of information
-- Easy creation of custom forms applica tions via the flexible graphical view
toolbox
-- Easy data sharing using standard tags
-- Object-oriented database provides flexible view of data
Newton Communications Architecture -- Provides single interface for all
communication services
-- Integrated to support easy communica- tions with minimum setup requirements
-- Designed in modules to support new communications capabilities
Intelligent Assistance Architecture
-- Assists users in completing repetitive tasks done in multiple categories,
including communications, scheduling, finding, and reminding functions
-- Contains smart defaults to reduce complexity
-- Functions across applications transparently
-- Allows extensions by third-party developers
Newton Hardware Architecture
-- ARM 610 processor at 20 MHz
-- Apple custom system ASIC
-- Low-power, reflective LCD display (336 x 240 pixels)
-- Transparent tablet with passive pen -- 4MB of ROM
-- 640K of RAM
-- One PCMCIA type 2 card slot
-- LocalTalk compatible serial port
-- Low-power, half-duplex, infrared transceiver (9600 baud at 1 meter)
Communications capabilities
Print to Apple LaserWriters and StyleWriters with serial cable and to popular
parallel printers using Newton Print Pack
Fax with optional fax modem (9600 baud fax send, automatic cover-page
generation, post-formatting)
"Beam" via infrared technology (send notes, name cards, appointments at 9600
baud with 1-meter range)
Handle telephony needs with assistance for intelligent auto dialing (DTMF or
modem dialing)
Receive and store wireless messages using optional Messaging Card
Send and receive NewtonMail to other Newtons, PC's and Macintosh computers
with optional modem*
*This service will be available in the fall of 1993.
Size and weight
Height: 7.25 in. (184.75 mm)
Width: 4.50 in. (114.3 mm)
Depth: 0.75 in. (19.05 mm)
Weight: 0.9 lb. (0.4 kg)
Operating environment
Temperature: +0 to +40 C• Storage temperature: -20 to +60 C
Humidity range: 20% to 95% RH noncondensing
Power requirements
Power adapter:
-- Universal, 100 to 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz
-- Four plug configurations: U.S., U.K., Europe, and Australia
Battery type: alkaline or nickel-cadmium
-- Alkaline output: 6.0V DC, 1.1 WH (nominal)
-- Nickel-cadmium output: 4.8V DC, 200 mAh (nominal)
Lithium cell: CR2032
-- Operating range: 3 V (nominal)
Power source: AC adapter (included) or four AAA batteries (included) and
optional Rechargeable Battery Pack
System requirements
Works with personal computers running Microsoft Windows; requires connector
cable and version 3.0 or later
Works with Macintosh personal computers; requires connector cable and system
7.01 or later
Printer support
Built-in printer support for the Apple StyleWriter and StyleWriter II
All Apple PostScript laser printers from the LaserWriter Plus and up
The Apple Personal LaserWriter printer
Works with most popular PC printers, including the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet,
Hewlett-Packard DeskJet, Canon BubbleJet, and Epson LQ and FX using the Print
Pack option
Fax machine support
Supports Group 3 fax machines
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