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- Newton MessagePad
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- Copyright 1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Features
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- Built-in applications
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- Let you capture, organize, and communicate all kinds of information
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- Allow free-form notetaking -- mixing ink handwriting, printed text, and
- graphics all on the same page
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- Turn printed or cursive handwriting into typed text or leave it as ink
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- 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
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- Let you create name files with a familiar, business-card look and feel that
- help you store information on hundreds of colleagues and friends
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- Help you plan monthly, weekly, and daily calendars
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- Include an assortment of informa tion and productivity tools (such as time-zone
- maps, calculator, and currency-exchange formulas)
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- Communications capabilities
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- Send notes or messages, schedule appointments, or exchange business cards with
- other nearby Newton users via built-in, infrared beaming technology
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- Print formatted letters and notes to serial and parallel printers
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- Send faxes anywhere with an optional compact fax modem
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- Receive and store wireless paging messages with the optional Newton Messaging
- Card
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- Share information and keep files synchronized and updated with personal
- computers running Microsoft Windows or with Macintosh computers (requires
- Newton Connection Kit)
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- Tap into electronic mail and on-line services with an optional compact fax
- modem
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- Intelligent assistance
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- Knows how you work and actively assists you in completing tasks
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- Assists you in making phone calls, faxing, finding information, sending
- electronic mail, printing, scheduling meetings, and completing to-do lists
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- Technical Specifications
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- Newton Intelligence
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- Newton Recognition Architecture
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- -- Recognizes handwriting: printed, cursive, or mixed word recognition
- -- Recognizes graphics and the inherent symmetry in objects
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- Newton Information Architecture
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- -- 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
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- Newton Communications Architecture -- Provides single interface for all
- communication services
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- -- Integrated to support easy communica- tions with minimum setup requirements
- -- Designed in modules to support new communications capabilities
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- Intelligent Assistance Architecture
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- -- 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
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- Newton Hardware Architecture
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- -- 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)
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- Communications capabilities
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- Print to Apple LaserWriters and StyleWriters with serial cable and to popular
- parallel printers using Newton Print Pack
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- Fax with optional fax modem (9600 baud fax send, automatic cover-page
- generation, post-formatting)
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- "Beam" via infrared technology (send notes, name cards, appointments at 9600
- baud with 1-meter range)
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- Handle telephony needs with assistance for intelligent auto dialing (DTMF or
- modem dialing)
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- Receive and store wireless messages using optional Messaging Card
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- Send and receive NewtonMail to other Newtons, PC's and Macintosh computers
- with optional modem*
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- *This service will be available in the fall of 1993.
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- Size and weight
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- Height: 7.25 in. (184.75 mm)
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- Width: 4.50 in. (114.3 mm)
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- Depth: 0.75 in. (19.05 mm)
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- Weight: 0.9 lb. (0.4 kg)
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- Operating environment
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- Temperature: +0 to +40 C• Storage temperature: -20 to +60 C
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- Humidity range: 20% to 95% RH noncondensing
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- Power requirements
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- Power adapter:
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- -- Universal, 100 to 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz
- -- Four plug configurations: U.S., U.K., Europe, and Australia
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- Battery type: alkaline or nickel-cadmium
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- -- Alkaline output: 6.0V DC, 1.1 WH (nominal)
- -- Nickel-cadmium output: 4.8V DC, 200 mAh (nominal)
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- Lithium cell: CR2032
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- -- Operating range: 3 V (nominal)
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- Power source: AC adapter (included) or four AAA batteries (included) and
- optional Rechargeable Battery Pack
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- System requirements
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- Works with personal computers running Microsoft Windows; requires connector
- cable and version 3.0 or later
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- Works with Macintosh personal computers; requires connector cable and system
- 7.01 or later
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- Printer support
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- Built-in printer support for the Apple StyleWriter and StyleWriter II
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- All Apple PostScript laser printers from the LaserWriter Plus and up
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- The Apple Personal LaserWriter printer
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- 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
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- Fax machine support
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- Supports Group 3 fax machines
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- Support
- Apple Products
- New Apple Products
- 29-July-93
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