Re: Youtube.com - An introduction to Newton

[John <zzjoki@gmail.com>]

On Feb 17, 12:41 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> On 17 fév, 21:01, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
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> > "Toinet" <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote in message
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> >25182058-135f-46d6-9930-c35a3f936a20@y17g2000yqd.googlegroups.com">news:25182058-135f-46d6-9930-c35a3f936a20@y17g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
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> > > Hi Group,
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> > > An Apple related video, an introduction to Newton @
> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-kROZ41ZTw-From the User Group
> > > Connection tape, dated August 1993.
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> > > Enjoy the show,
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> > > Antoine
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> > That's great, Antoine, it makes me want a Newton now.  :-)
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> > Bill Garber
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> It reminds me that Jérôme Crétaux (the clever guy behind Mac games at
> Kalisto) wrote a Newton version of Cogito. Newton seems to be a great
> product that came too early. There are probably several other reasons
> but it looks like the interface had been well-designed.
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> antoine

My opinions: the later Newtons are elegant and speedy but Jobs hated
them ('scribble pad'), and the earlier Newtons killed enthusiasm since
they were sluggish and the built in hand recognition was bad (see
'Doonesbury Netwon'). The development kits were initially too
expensive, and Apple's architecture used a smaller amount of silicon
RAM spooled to a larger pool of flash memory. So, for example,
Quickfigure (best Newton spreadsheet program) could take "forever" to
insert a row in a spreadsheet.

It's really too bad since these are great devices. I love NSBASIC
(BASIC for the Newton) it's fun to play with, and using an eMate for a
log book. What should have been. Oh well.