The Newton OS, originally developed by Apple in the early 1990s, was one of the first operating systems designed for personal digital assistants (PDAs).

In the early to mid-1990s, Apple released a wide range of quirky and unique products, ranging from printers and digital ...

Gary Trudeau better get his pen ready: It’s now possible to run the Newton OS on your iPad. [ Black Friday: Here are the best deals chosen by our Editors ] The Newton, of course, was Apple’s ...

The Newton can be synchronized with OS X and iTunes. "It still amazes me how well this community is doing in keeping this technology going," said Albert Muniz , an associate professor of marketing ...

Hello everybody. Well, I guess I'm going to have to start a PDA museaum or something, because I'm thinking about trying to buy an Apple Newton Message Pad 100. First, let me start by saying that I ...

Here’s a great video to kick off this Monday morning: available over at Google Code, the Einstein MessagePad emulator allows you to run Newton OS on other devices such as the iPhone (seen in the ...

On the first day of the conference, Einstein (a Newton emulator for OS X) developer Paul Guyot showed off his successful port of the still-kicking OS on a Linux-powered Sharp Zaurus.

Make fun of Apple's Newton MessagePad all you want, but the proto-PDA introduced by Apple in the early 90s managed to gather some rather tenacious followers. Current users of the then ...

NewTen provides Newton connectivity for Mac OS X. It allows you to install packages on a Newton MessagePad from a Mac OS X computer over a serial connection, without having to use any Classic ...

When Victor Rehorst pulls out his oversize personal digital assistant, there is often someone with a question. “They usually ask, what kind of a Palm is that?” Rehorst said.The answer is that ...

For the dedicated Mac users still using the Newton MessagePad as their primary digital personal assistant, a major bug has been reported. According to a report on the issue from 40Hz, "the ...