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                Answers and practical Advice on Apple's Newton
                Vol. 1 # 1                      August 1, 1993


              









            
































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                 Ode To Techno-Lust
                          By  ThomasA28

          With all of this is in mind, I propose the following "poem."

                         I am an American
                         I am a child.
                         I want it.
                         I need it.
                         I deserve it.
                         Buy it for me.
                                        Now!

          By the way, I hope to be first in line next week.  See you there.







































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                              A Quote from John Sculley

          We are  on the threshold of one of those very exciting moments in
          history. Just as the  personal computer shaped our world  in ways
          that  we couldn't have  imagined 16  years ago,  the PDA  has the
          potential to shape in ways that we can't yet imagine.

          I believe  that PDAs, not  as isolated devices,  but incorporated
          into pervasive,  intelligent networks  -- will eventually  be not
          only nation-wide but even  global. They are going to have  a huge
          impact  upon health-care  delivery, in  both the quality  and the
          cost;  a  huge  impact on  education  reform;  a  huge impact  on
          re-engineering  the  work place.  I  think  potentially that  the
          high-speed networks  will eventually  be enabled by  devices like
          PDAs for the average person.  
          Those networks can have as much impact on population distribution
          as the interstate  highways did back  in the late 1950s,  as they
          moved people from the cities to the suburbs. I think you're going
          to see  people now be able  to move from the  suburbs to anywhere
          they want to live and be and work. The PDA can be one of the most
          important  enabling devices  because it  fits into  both ends  of
          those networks. And you can take them wherever you  are. More and
          more  of these devices will be  wireless-based devices. They will
          get smaller  and  smaller as  all  electronics products  do,  and
          they'll  obviously get less and  less expensive as  time goes on.
          And they'll  be able to do  more and more things  as people apply
          their inventiveness to create this industry.

                             Welcome to Newtons' Lutions

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                                  TABLE OF CONTENTS

          Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1

          Ode To Techno-Lust  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2

          A Quote from John Sculley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3

          Excerpts From John Sculley's Talks
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          Newton Press Release  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    14

          Product Specifications for Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . .    17

          First Newton Titles From PIE's Starcore Publishing Group  .    18

          A Comparison With The Sharp OZ-9600 . . . . . . . . . . . .    20

          How Did the Idea for PDA's First Originate? . . . . . . . .    22

          How is the Newton different?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    23

          When will Newton impact the consumer market?  . . . . . . .    24

          What  are some of  the variations of  PDAs we  can expect to
               see? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    24

          What price point is critical for PDA's? . . . . . . . . . .    25

          Won't Sharp be Competing with Apple?  . . . . . . . . . . .    26

          Why do People Need PDA's? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    26

          Does Newton Always Recognize Handwriting?
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          What Applications come with Newton?
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          How do you Store Information in Newton?
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          What features make Newton's hardware architecture unique?
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          What does Newton sell for?
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          What comes in the box for the $700 range?
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          What About Add-On Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    33

          What are the Standard Configurations? . . . . . . . . . . .    34

          Dave's Wish List  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    35

          A Hands'On Review of the Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    38














































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          Excerpts From John Sculley's Talks

                                What the Heck is a PDA

          Newton  is a very  good example of what  we mean by transitioning
          Apple  into a  systems  and solutions  company that  personalizes
          products  for  professionals.   And Newton  will  be a  family of
          products,  just  as  the project  with  Toshiba  is  a family  of
          products.  
          Newton products  will incorporate  interactive intelligence.   So
          those of  you who have read  about Newton, or have  seen it, know
          that it  has a new concept for user interface design which is all
          about   intelligent   assistance.      It   has   a   very   rich
          telecommunications   architecture,   because   we  believe   that
          information in  visual form, is important  in all communications,
          especially telecommunications.  Newton will initially use pen and
          gesture, but the big deal is  not the pen input, even though it's
          pretty useful for taking notes.   In the future we expect  to add
          other input technologies, including speech. 

          Personal Interactive Electronics is about personalizing 
          electronics  for  professionals in  the  context  of systems  and
          solutions.   This  is true  whether we're  looking at  the Newton
          family   of  products  or  the  new  product  family  that  we're
          developing with Toshiba.   We really think that there's  a chance
          to  build entirely new kinds of solutions that are different from
          what  people are  familiar  with  today.    And  it  goes  beyond
          introducing  devices in consumer channels.  We want to jump start
          what we call PDAs, or Personal Digital Assistants, and a good way
          to do that is to go out  and sell to the people who already  know
          us.    In that  case,  we have  an  installed base  of  7 million
          Macintosh users,  and  these  people  tend to  be  interested  in
          technology.   They  believe technology  will  take stress  out of
          their lives, they  love innovation, and they love  neat stuff.  A
          good  example is the PowerBook. We went from standing still, when
          we introduced the PowerBook  back in November, to an  expected $1
          billion in worldwide  sales during  the product's first  year.   
          We've  gone from not  even being  in the  notebook business  to a
          number one spot in many of the major markets around the world for
          notebook computers.  We like to build neat products, and the kind
          of  people who know  us like neat  products.  So we  think we can
          jump start  PDAs  by  going  to  these  constituent  markets  and
          bringing them new  products like Newton, or the multimedia player
          products  we're developing with Toshiba.   We also  want to build
          systems  and  solution  franchises.   And  the  example  might be
          paperless publishing.   Earlier this morning,  I referred to  the
          three-part plan that Apple  laid out a year  ago when we  entered
          into our agreements with IBM.   And I said we had a strategy that
          focused on gaining market share, developing our business in large
          enterprises, and  innovating technologies for the  future.  These
          are  really additive with each  other.  We're  asking, "How do we
          put these  together to create customizable  systems and solutions

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          that,  particularly, will focus on  professional markets?"     We
          will sell media servers in  1993.  We can connect  Macintoshes to
          those  servers or  to  other personal  computers.   We  can  also
          connect a PowerBook with a modem as we can today,  but we'll also
          have PDAs such  as Newton  that will use  wireless technology  to
          access that same  information.  Or  we'll have PDAs  such as  the
          media players that can use CD-ROM technology, or electronic books
          that are  PDAs that  can use  PCMCIA flash  memory  storage.   So
          there'll be  many different  ways in  which we  can take  our PDA
          devices and connect them into servers and into Macintosh systems.
          Let me  give you a  couple of  examples.     First,  this example
          looks  at  a  mobile assistance  system,  and  in  this case  the
          solution  is sales automation.  A sales representative out in the
          field working with a customer will be able to take an order entry
          and then  send it back to  a server or a  database using wireless
          communication.  Information can then be verified back to the PDA,
          or it can go on through a LAN out to a Macintosh; and then it can
          go from  a  Macintosh  to  a  PDA  over  a  wireless  system  for
          verification.   A lot of the technology we've created is designed
          to  be highly customizable so that we can personalize systems and
          solutions.    We  think  that there's  an  opportunity  to  build
          sustainable franchises, much like we were able to do with desktop
          publishing.

          Another example is in the area of color imaging systems.  I think
          color imaging  is one  of the  next frontiers.   There will  be a
          tremendous  amount of  innovation  going on  with color  imaging.
          Here's an example of a paperless publishing solution built around
          the color imaging system.  In  this case, you would have an image
          capture; you'd be  able to bring the image back through a network
          to a  media server and a  database, then be able  to move images.
          We're doing a lot of work with very sophisticated high-resolution
          images    that    can   move    over    long    distances   using
          telecommunications, or it  can go into small local area networks,
          over  Ethernet, let's  say, to  a Macintosh.   Then  again, those
          images  can  be  moved  back over  electronic  transmission  to a
          display.   The display  might well  be the  kind of  product that
          Toshiba  and  Apple are  developing together.    Those are  a few
          examples  of how  we  can  start  to  look  at  Personal  Digital
          Assistants in the  context of  solutions, and  what we're  really
          trying to  do is to  focus on  personalizing visual  information.
          The two key themes that  you'll see  reoccurring at Apple  in the
          1990s  are mobile assistants and  color imaging. What  we hope to
          contribute is great user interface  technology and the ability to
          integrate  systems.   Because  we are  a software-driven  systems
          company, we  will look at ways  in which we can  use our software
          know-how to  make the  integration of these  systems particularly
          effective from the user  standpoint.  We are heavily  involved in
          pervasive communications.   Almost everything we  do at Apple  in
          research  and development is in some  way tied to communications,
          networking, or telecommunications.   And we're very interested in
          moving into an era where solutions  can be customized.  More  and

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          more the differentiation between vendors will be at the solutions
          level.    Therefore  the   ability  to  customize  solutions  and
          personalize  them is one of  the big opportunities  in the 1990s.
          So as we  look out to this mega-industry, we  see many transition
          points occurring.   The first  ones are already  happening.   The
          world is  rapidly  accepting  that  there  will  be  an  entirely
          different set of  opportunities in a  digitized world, one  where
          telecommunication becomes extremely important.  It's happening in
          cable, in  satellite,  over copper  wire, over  fiber optics,  in
          wireless, and it's happening  around the world.  We  believe that
          the  opportunity to  create entirely  new kinds of  solutions and
          systems  won't  be  designed  by  any  one,  single  industry  by
          telecommunications, computing, consumer electronics, or media and
          publishing alone.  All of these industries will have to find ways
          to work  together.  One of  those examples is clearly  what we're
          trying  to do with Kaleida.  Other examples include the alliances
          that we're forming with Toshiba and with  IBM.  So as you look at
          Apple in  the  1990s, think  of  us not  just  as a  PC  hardware
          company. Think of  us as  a company that  drives innovation  into
          systems and solutions.

          Five  years ago,  I wrote a  book about  a product  vision that I
          thought  could change the world.  Earlier, I had  learned that it
          takes about 15 years for technology to incubate: from the time of
          the  invention until  it has  a chance  of becoming  a commercial
          success. So I began visiting and observing many technologies that
          were  incubating in  research  laboratories around  the world  in
          hopes of  identifying what kinds of  truly revolutionary products
          we might  see out  in the  21st century.   I called  this product
          vision the Knowledge Navigator.  I remembered a conversation many
          years ago that Steve Jobs, Dr.  Land the inventor of the Polaroid
          camera, and I  had about new  products. Dr.  Land said that,  "We
          really don't invent  new products,  but the best  ones are  there
          already, only invisible, just  waiting to be discovered".   If we
          had conducted market research  10 years ago and asked  what would
          the   ideal personal computer be like, most people probably would
          not have been  able to describe a Macintosh. There  was little in
          the  past that would  have given them any  context to think about
          it.  But  when   we  showed  people  the   first  Macintosh  they
          immediately  understood it and wanted one.  Later, I asked George
          Lucas, creator of  Star Wars, if it would be possible to simulate
          the experience of a product even before it technically existed by
          using  special effects.  This way  people could  see  the product
          concept and judge it long before we could actually build it.

          There  has been some criticism in the  past of a video that Apple
          created  about  a   futuristic  product   called  the   Knowledge
          Navigator.  It  was a  small portable  computer  that acted  as a
          personal  assistant, going so far as to  show a human face on its
          screen  which responded  to spoken  commands. That  video spurred
          criticism that  Apple  was  hyping  a  product  that  wasn't  yet
          invented.  Again, some people are  skeptical that Apple  is up to

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          that same hype with its PDAs. Can you respond to that skepticism?
               Mr.  Sculley: That  video,  called the  Knowledge Navigator,
          which was put together based  on a concept I wrote about  back in
          1987,  has probably done more  to set the  technical direction of
          Apple for the last five years  than any other single event.  When
          we  showed that video of what we thought personal computing could
          be like  in the early  21st century, many  people thought it  was
          marketing  hype.  That  was only  five  years  ago.  We have  now
          demonstrated almost  all  of the  technologies that  were key  to
          creating the Knowledge Navigator.       {The Knowledge Navigator}
          gave our technical people a focus and it set  some very ambitious
          goals. The  basic concepts  of the  Knowledge Navigator  were not
          built around the traditional  idea of the personal computer  as a
          tool,   but  around  the  idea  of  an  assistant.  It  was  very
          communications-dependent,  capable  of  handling very  media-rich
          data.  Those are  exactly the under  pinnings of  the PDA.   As I
          mentioned  earlier, as recently as a year ago before we announced
          the PDAs,  most  people were  thinking that  the next  generation
          products  beyond PCs were going to be  a tablet with a pen input.
          That has not been a concept that turned out to be as rewarding as
          people thought.  And it's actually  the ideas from  the Knowledge
          Navigator,  five  years ago,  that are  shaping the  PDA industry
          perhaps  as much  as  anything.    When  we  show  the  Knowledge
          Navigator  tape  today,  it  doesn't seem  outrageous  to  people
          anymore. Because  when we  first showed the  Knowledge Navigator,
          the concept  of displaying  multimedia on  a computer  screen was
          unknown. The  concept of having a communications-intensive device
          that was very  mobile was unknown  at that time. And  these ideas
          are  so familiar to us today that they don't even seem innovative
          anymore. Which just shows you how quickly technology changes, and
          how quickly our context of the world changes.  So, if you look at
          the  Knowledge Navigator in 1992, it's  taken very seriously. And
          technologists now look at it as a pretty good  indicator in terms
          of the direction of  where Apple is  going, as we do  internally.
          As  regards  the melding  of  the  telecommunications, media  and
          computer industries;    Here's what  I've  said and  here's  what
          sometimes  has been  misinterpreted. What I've  said is  that the
          computer  and the  consumer-electronics industries,  we estimate,
          will be about  a $1  trillion industry, combined,  10 years  from
          now. And that will all be based upon digital technology. Consumer
          electronics today is almost entirely analog technology. Computers
          are digital.  The media  and publishing industry,  which includes
          everything from films  to videos, music  to magazines, books  and
          newspapers, we expect  world-wide, will be about  a $1.3 trillion
          industry.  Almost everything that  is created  10 years  from now
          will be in digital form.      The telecommunications industry, we
          estimate world-wide,  will be about  a $1.2 trillion  industry 10
          years from now.  Over the next decade, we will  see that industry
          make the transition from analog to  digital technology. That will
          expand  the  capabilities  of both  wire-based,  including  fiber
          optics and copper networks,  and wireless communications to have,
          not  100 times or 1,000 times the  capacity we have today, but at

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          least  10,000   times  more  capacity.  That's   because  digital
          technology allows you to use compression.    This means  that the
          combination of those industries going digital and the convergence
          of   what   is   happening   in  digital   technology   --   with
          miniaturization,  the  tremendous   expansion  of  capacity  over
          networks and the tremendous availability of media-rich content --
          is  going to create the opportunities for new kinds of industries
          like personal digital assistants to be a very large business.  
          I've never  suggested that PDAs are  going to be a  $3.5 trillion
          business.  What  I've said  is that  there's going  to be  a $3.5
          trillion digital-based-technology mega-industry that combines all
          of  these industries, and that new industries are going to emerge
          out of  it, like  the  PDAs, which  are going  to  be very  large
          industries.  I don't know the size of  what the PDA industry will
          specifically be in that period of time.      The  story of  Apple
          Computer  --  the  way  it was  founded,  the  way  it  grew, the
          computers  it  made  --  is  the  quintessential  Silicon  Valley
          computer company  story. Does this new  technology you're talking
          about signify the end of Apple Computer as we know it today?  
          Mr. Sculley:  No, not at all.  In fact, the way  Apple's PDAs had
          been  invented  is almost  identical to  the  model in  which the
          Macintosh was created, or the way the Apple II was created -- all
          by  highly  motivated  and   extremely  talented  teams  who  are
          passionate  about what  they are  trying  to create.  And they're
          looking for real breakthroughs.    We  have   several  PDA  teams
          working on several different  PDAs. And they are staffed  by some
          of  the most imaginative,  talented people in  the entire Silicon
          Valley. And I  might add that  there are an increasing  number of
          start-up  companies in  Silicon Valley  that are also  working on
          PDAs  or  products or  businesses related  to  PDAs --  which is,
          again, very much in the Silicon Valley model.     If    anything,
          the PDA  is a great shot  in the arm for  Silicon Valley. Because
          we're watching Silicon Valley  go through a transformation, where
          the traditional  businesses of silicon foundries have essentially
          moved  out   of  Silicon   Valley.  And   a  new   generation  of
          entrepreneurs is emerging.    We are also seeing that the largest
          computing  companies are at least beginning to take part of their
          research and development and marketing budgets and put it against
          PDAs. Intel Corp. said they are working on technologies for PDAs.
          You  can  see that  Apple is  obviously  putting a  high priority
          against it.  Hewlett-Packard is also  putting a high  priority on
          these kinds  of devices. So I think it's a tremendous shot in the
          arm for Silicon Valley.  And its a chance for us  to build on our
          greatest  strengths, which  are innovation,  entrepreneurship and
          the things that are deeply rooted in this valley. 
          Here  is what  a Knowledge  Navigator in  the early  21st century
          might look like.   The  Knowledge Navigator as  a vision gives  a
          good idea what future technology will  be capable of, and while 4
          years  ago  when   I  first  showed   this  concept  video   many
          technologists  thought this  was science  fiction, today  we have
          actually  solved   many  of  the   most  important  technological
          challenges.   My dream is to bring the first generation Knowledge

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          Navigators  to the consumer market  in the 1990's.  First of all,
          don't think  of the Knowledge  Navigator as a  personal computer.
          The Knowledge Navigator is  a very sophisticated Personal Digital
          Assistant or PDA.   Ease-of-use  is greatly advanced with the use
          of speech,  simple gestures and  what we call  intelligent agents
          who run around inside the system finding things, reminding you of
          something  or answering questions. In  this concept video we made
          the  agent look  like a  real human  being so  the metaphor  is a
          conversational  one.  But  our  first  agents  will  probably  be
          invisible intelligence  implemented in software.   There are some
          other  very  important   technological  concepts  shown   in  the
          Knowledge  Navigator  which  will  be extremely  interesting  for
          possible future consumer products.

          For example:

          Multimedia  - interactive  picture phone,  animated maps  and the
          anthropomorphic intelligent  agents, like  the fellow in  the red
          bow tie...

          Networked  information  services  -  Dial-up  electronic service,
          dramatically  improved  bandwidth sufficient  to  move television
          quality   images   and    information   content   packaged   into
          transportable files.

          Miniaturization - Form  factors become very small  as flat panels
          replace  CRT's  and rotational  storage  is  transformed into  IC
          cards.   I  talked  earlier  about  the convergence  of  personal
          computing  and  consumer   electronics.  Personal  computers  are
          general purpose  products which  require some  level of  skill to
          operate and they  can do  intelligent things  like build  models,
          find and display interesting  stuff and give the user  feedback .
          On the  other  hand, most  consumer  electronic products  have  a
          particular  defined usefulness.  They are  not so  generalized as
          personal computers and they are relatively  inexpensive. Personal
          Digital Assistants or  PDA's can  be the meeting  ground for  the
          convergence of these two industries. The Knowledge Navigator is a
          very sophisticated PDA. 

          But let's think of some simpler examples:

          1. Executive  Organizers that fit  in the  palm of your  hand and
          keep track of telephone numbers, calendars, things to do lists.

          2. Wireless  communicators with other useful  built-in functions.
          Remember, digital technology let's us do things we couldn't  even
          dream of with analog technology.

          3.  Electronic Books: In fact, Apple's PowerBook 100 is the first
          generation  of this new kind  of product.   Voyager is publishing
          several best selling titles for Apple's PowerBook.


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          4.  MultiMedia  Players:  We  are  going  to  see  an  incredible
          expansion of CD-ROM multimedia titles for personal computers over
          the next year and  this should stimulate the market  for consumer
          interactive multimedia players.  Marvin Minsky, the MIT professor
          and  father  of Artificial  Intelligence  once  said, "You  don't
          really understand  something unless  you understand it  more than
          one   way."  So  let's look at what we  can expect to see in  the
          future in  this country  with digital  networks.   President Bush
          signed  into  law  in  December  of  1991  the  High  Performance
          Computing and  Communications Act. Essentially what  this will do
          is appropriate about $6 billion over the next 4 years to be spent
          by federal  laboratories to  develop the  key technologies  for a
          nationwide  high speed digital network.   The original intent was
          to  connect research laboratories  and technical  universities so
          they  can do  experiments  with massively  parallel computers  to
          study: violent weather  systems, sub-atomic simulations,  genetic
          engineering and other grand science projects.  As Chairman of the
          CSPP  "or the  Computer Systems  Policy Project"  an organization
          composed of 12  CEO's of  the U.S. computer  industry, I  believe
          that this effort can have even far more benefit for the nation if
          it  is  expanded  to  deliver:  Health  services,  long  distance
          learning   for   education,   work  at   home   and   intelligent
          manufacturing to  name a few  ideas.    Think of this  high speed
          digital network as  one of the most important  underpinnings that
          will   give  our  Nation s  industries  and  workers  competitive
          advantage in  a global, dynamic, information  intensive economy. 
          Think of this network as a way to use technology to help us close
          the education gap between our students and those of other leading
          industrialized  countries like Germany and Japan.   Think back to
          the end of the World War II when America created new institutions
          that  became  the underpinning  of  our  industrial economy,  our
          interstate  highway system.  The Atomic energy  Commission. NASA.
          Network  television  to name  a few.      Think  of a  high speed
          nationwide digital  network able  to connect every  school, every
          library, every  business,  every government  agency, every  home,
          every person  where ever  they are.  And the  issues at hand  are
          probably  more  regulatory  than  technical to  create  this  new
          infrastructure.

          The Digitals are  coming! So  is pervasive  networking that  will
          dramatically increase the range  of home-delivered services.  And
          Apple intends  to be there  as a  leader in this  segment of  the
          consumer electronics industry through constant innovation and the
          best  possible ease-of-use  technology.  We are  choosing a  path
          which builds on our strengths and at the same time shares some of
          our best  technologies with  some  of the  world's best  consumer
          electronic  companies.     We hope  to  become one  of  the great
          innovators and  agents of growth in  digital consumer information
          products in the 1990's.  Thank you and we look forward to being a
          part of your industry. 



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                                 Newton Press Release

          First Newton--The MessagePad--Hits The Market
             Contact:  Christopher  Escher   Apple  Computer,  Inc.   (408)
          974-2202     First Newton--The MessagePad--Hits The Market
             CUPERTINO, California
             --July 30,1993--

          Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that the first product based
          on  its innovative Newton technology--the Newton MessagePad--will
          ship  on Aug.  2,  1993.   The  Newton MessagePad  is a  handheld
          communications assistant that  allows people  to gather,  manage,
          and share information with  tremendous ease and spontaneity.   By
          combining rich  communications capabilities with  technology that
          actively assists people in getting work done, Apple has created a
          new class of  personal digital assistant (PDA) devices-- one that
          lets people  communicate ideas  with greater speed,  clarity, and
          effectiveness.  The Newton MessagePad is also a rich platform for
          a  wide variety of new applications and software titles that take
          advantage of its unique technology, convenience, and usability.  
          The Newton MessagePad is the first in  a family of products based
          on Newton technology:  others will be introduced in the future by
          both Apple and its licensees.     "We believe that Newton will be
          seen  as the defining technology  of the digital  age," said John
          Sculley,  Apple chairman.   "It  will be  a focal  point  for the
          coming  convergence  of  industry  sectors   such  as  computers,
          communications and consumer electronics.  Communications is a key
          component of this new emerging industry and the Newton MessagePad
          demonstrates   how  this   capability  can   be  powerfully   yet
          intuitively built into  a handheld device.   I look forward  to a
          full   lineup  of   products   and  services   based  on   Newton
          Intelligence, not  just from Apple but  from innovative, creative
          companies around the globe."      The Newton MessagePad  is based
          on  the concept of Newton Intelligence, which is a combination of
          software and silicon.   Newton Intelligence is  what makes Newton
          understandable, friendly, intuitive and  useful. It is the "soul"
          of the Newton MessagePad  that allows the product to  "learn" the
          user's preferences and requirements.  For example, the user could
          receive a wireless message  from a colleague to attend  a meeting
          and  Newton  could automatically  place  the  appointment in  its
          calendar.  More importantly, Newton Intelligence actively assists
          users  in completing their  tasks. It "learns"  users work habits
          and  patterns--and  then implements  them  on  cue. Whether  it's
          printing a letter in an accustomed format, or faxing a message to
          a  client's office, the MessagePad  learns over time  to adapt to
          the user's preferences.

          --Communication Capabilities

          Because    of    Newton   technology's    robust   communications
          architecture,  the  MessagePad  comes  with  a  wide  variety  of
          powerful  communications capabilities.  The Newton Communications

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          Architecture  is  highly  modular.    This  means  that  when new
          applications and  services become  available, they can  easily be
          added and supported in an  integrated, plug-and-play manner.  The
          communications  capabilities  in the  MessagePad  allow users  to
          send,  receive,  and share  information  through  virtually every
          communication method in the  workplace today-- through  telephone
          lines, wireless networks, and computer networks.   

          --Faxing.  The MessagePad  can act as a handheld  facsimile (fax)
          machine--allowing  users,  with  the   optional  modem,  to  send
          facsimiles   to  virtually   any  fax   machine  in   the  world.
          Additionally, Newton Intelligence makes  the process of sending a
          facsimile simple: With  the press of  one button, the  MessagePad
          automatically  formats the output, adds a  cover page, and places
          the facsimile in the  system's Out Box, awaiting connection  to a
          telephone line.  It is  anticipated that  future products in  the
          family  will additionally  offer  the capability  to receive  fax
          messages.   

          --Wireless Messaging.  Users of Newton MessagePad are expected to
          have access  to a wireless  messaging service with  both national
          (U.S.) and local access.  This service will deliver alpha-numeric
          paging  and  messaging  capabilities   to  users  of  the  Newton
          MessagePad.    This  service is  expected  to  give  the users  a
          fully-featured  method  of  keeping  in  touch  that  is  totally
          integrated  with the  MessagePad. (Full  details of  this service
          will be available in the near future.)

          --Electronic Mail.

          MessagePad users will be able to send and receive electronic mail
          messages to  and from other  MessagePad users who  are NewtonMail
          subscribers--or just about any  computer, by using the NewtonMail
          service and the optional  modem. NewtonMail is a subscriber-based
          service  to be  offered  by  Apple  that  is  an  extremely  cost
          effective way of communicating across  the United States and  the
          rest of the world. Availability of the NewtonMail service will be
          announced  at a  later date.  Over time,  it is  anticipated that
          NewtonMail  will be expanded to offer a wide range of information
          such  as news, weather and  financial information as  well as the
          potential for online transactions.

          --Beaming.

          Making use of its built-in infrared function,  the MessagePad can
          send--or "beam"  in Apple engineer parlance --  quick messages to
          other  Newton devices  across a  one meter distance,  without any
          wiring  or  cabling.  This  capability is  ideal  for  the  quick
          exchange of items such as business cards, meeting notes, maps, or
          appointments.

          --Printing.

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          The  MessagePad   can  print  any  document   it  creates--notes,
          drawings, addresses,  maps, letters--on most  popular dot matrix,
          portable inkjet,  thermal and laser printers.  These printers can
          be either connected  directly, or accessed  through a local  area
          network.   


          --Desktop Connections

          The   Newton  MessagePad   can  share   information--quickly  and
          easily--with millions of  personal computers. Using  the optional
          Newton Connection package, users can  transfer, synchronize, back
          up,  and  update information  between a  Newton MessagePad  and a
          Macintosh personal  computer or  a personal computer  running the
          Windows  operating  system. Newton  Connection  is  based upon  a
          technology   Apple   calls    "Smart   Synchronization,"    which
          automatically  updates information  between  a  MessagePad and  a
          personal  computer. Any changes  made to  the information  on the
          Newton--or   on  the  personal  computer--will  be  automatically
          synchronized and updated between the two when they are connected.
          Newton  Connection also  includes a  set of  complementary Newton
          applications intended to let users create,  view, and edit Newton
          information on a personal computer, even when the computer is not
          connected to a Newton.       Newton Connection  is planned to  be
          available  in the following versions  for either Macintosh or PCs
          running Windows:  The Newton Connection  Kit, which backs  up and
          restores information;  and The  Newton Connection Pro  Kit, which
          gives complete  file to file synchronization.  The product allows
          creation of a  "virtual Newton" on the desktop.      Availability
          for Newton Connection products will be announced at a later date.

          Keeping in Control

          The Newton MessagePad also  includes a collection of capabilities
          that  help people capture and organize an array of information in
          the way that  suits them  best. The system  can capture and  file
          notes,  sketches  and other  details  on file,  ready  for almost
          instant access.  Built-in calendars,  alarms, and  reminders help
          people keep track  of busy lifestyles. Its  built-in address book
          holds hundreds of names  and addresses. The MessagePad's advanced
          recognition architecture not only understands printed and cursive
          script, but  also cleans  up drawings and  diagrams, making  them
          easier  to understand  and communicate.     Applications, Titles,
          Developer Support       More  than 20  developers are  announcing
          products  for Newton  MessagePad, including  CE Software,  Claris
          Corp.,   Fingertip,  Great   Plains,   Integrated   Systems,   On
          Technology, Pastel and Pastel, Slate and Strategic Mapping. These
          products  range from  specialized realtor  systems to  titles for
          sports enthusiasts.  Many  more developers are in the  process of
          creating innovative new applications for the system. In addition,
          Apple's  PIE Publishing  group,  Starcore, announced  six  titles
          ranging from financial assistance  to interactive city maps. (see

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          associated releases).   

          --Licensing

          From  the beginning, Apple had signaled  its intention to broadly
          license  Newton  technology.    This  activity  has  resulted  in
          agreements with leading corporations around the  world, including
          Sharp and Kyushu Matsushita Electric in Japan and Motorola in the
          United States.   Siemens/ROLM  will also be  incorporating Newton
          technology in its forthcoming  NotePhone product.  For customers,
          it  is anticipated  that  this licensing  effort  will mean  that
          software,  titles and accessories can be used across a variety of
          products from these and other corporations.

          --Distribution and Availability

          Initially  the Newton  MessagePad  will be  available in  limited
          volume at Apple Computer resellers in Boston and New York. During
          the week  of August  2 Newton  MessagePad will  also  be sold  at
          MacWorld Expo in Boston. By mid to late August, it is anticipated
          that the product will roll out across the United States, and will
          be available in more  than 2,000 computer retailers  and consumer
          electronic  stores. Availability  in  some international  markets
          will  follow  in  September, with  localized  versions  following
          through 1994.   Pricing     There is  no suggested retail pricing
          for the  Newton MessagePad.  Individual retailers will  price the
          products according to their specific solutions offerings. However
          Apple expects the  Newton MessagePad  to be priced  from $699  to
          $949, depending on configuration:
             -- Newton MessagePad with AC Adaptor
             -- Newton MessagePad Communications System
               (Newton MessagePad with AC Adaptor and External Modem)
             --  Newton  MessagePad   Professional  Communications   System
          (Newton    MessagePad with AC Adaptor, External Modem and  Newton
          Connection    Pro)
             --  Apple Messaging  Service: Formal  pricing to  be announced
          upon    availability.
             -- Newton Messaging Card: pricing to be announced
             -- NewtonMail: pricing to be announced
             -- Newton Connection Kit: pricing to be announced
             -- Newton Connection Pro: pricing to be announced

             Product Specifications for Newton  MessagePad and Accessories 


          Newton MessagePad 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

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           -- One PCMCIA type 2 card slot
           -- LocalTalk compatible serial port
           -- Low-power, half-duplex, infrared  transceiver (9600 baud at 1
          meter)

          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

          First  Newton  Titles  From  PIE's  Starcore  Publishing  Group  
          CUPERTINO, California

          --July 30, 1993--

          The  recently introduced  Starcore  publishing  group within  the
          Personal Interactive Electronics (PIE) division at Apple Computer
          has announced six new  titles for the Newton MessagePad.  Some of
          these titles are delivered on PCMCIA cards that fit into the card
          slot at the  top of  the MessagePad;  others are  on a  diskette,
          which can be  downloaded as  required from  a personal  computer.
          All titles are expected to ship early in the fall.

          "This announcement  underlines the fact that  the Newton business
          is  not  just  about  hardware,"   said  Ken  Wirt,  director  of
          publishing,  PIE Division.  "We  have been  working closely  with
          developers  in this  venture, and we  are extremely  pleased with
          this first portfolio of  titles.  I believe that  Starcore is now
          well positioned to contribute  significantly to the acceptance of
          the Newton family as the principal standard for the PDA market."

          The first titles from Starcore Publishing include the following:

          --  Fodors  94 Travel  Manager:  Top  U.S. Cities.  Includes  500
          locations per city, including restaurants-- detailing the type of
          cuisine,  the   credit  cards  they  accept,   and  other  travel
          information  and business  services--hotels, sights  of interest,
          airport  information.   Covers   eight  cities,   with   detailed
          interactive  maps highlighting destinations and routes. Suggested
          retail price: $119.95.
           
          --  Fortune  500  Guide  to  American  Business  is  an  enriched
          electronic version of the  Fortune 500 and Service 500,  giving a
          rich  source of information  on all aspects  of America's largest
          companies. Compares  information on  topics  including sales  per
          employee,  five-year financial  performance histories  for sales,
          profits  and earnings  per  share. Users  can  take advantage  of
          sophisticated search  and  sort options,  compare performance  of
          companies and prepare  graphs (using  five years of  data on  two
          companies)  and  custom  calculations.  Suggested  retail  price:
          $99.95.

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          -- Dell  Crossword Puzzles  & Other  Games  contains hundreds  of
          puzzles, as  well as  Cryptograms and  Word Searches.   Suggested
          retail price: $79.95.   An  abbreviated version  of this  product
          also  comes in  a diskette-based  version, with  suggested retail
          price: $49.95.


          --  Money  Magazine  Financial  Assistant   includes  calculation
          templates  to  evaluate a  number  of the  most  common financial
          decisions.  Categories  include   investments,  loans,   budgets,
          property transactions and so on. Suggested retail price: $99.95. 

          -- Money Magazine Business  Forms makes it easy  to fill out  the
          most  used financial  forms, including  expense reports,  project
          plans and loan calculations. It has 12 templates. This product is
          delivered on diskette. Using the optional Newton Connection, just
          the form required can be  downloaded from the personal  computer.
          Suggested retail price: $39.95. 

          --  Columbo's Mystery  Capers  - -  more  than 40  brain  teasers
          complete  with  graphics and  text-based  clues.   Each  humorous
          mystery opens with a text introduction and an illustration of the
          scene  of  the  crime. Players  use  the  stylus  to uncover  the
          potential  clues which reveal important details. Suggested retail
          price: $79.95.       

          Apple has  been working  actively with information  providers and
          publishers to develop titles for the Starcore portfolio, which is
          intended  to  include  products  in  the  categories  of  general
          reference, business/professional, education and entertainment.   
          The  opportunity  for publishers  is  considerable, according  to
          Kenzi Sugihara,  of Random  House, who cooperated  with Apple  to
          publish  the Fodors Guide title.  Sugihara, who is vice president
          and  publisher   at   Random  House   Reference  and   Electronic
          Publishing, commented, "What we are seeing is the opportunity for
          publishers  to reach a very  broad section of  the population: We
          are  giving a  whole  new group  of  people the  information  and
          entertainment they want in a new, accessible format."     As well
          as Random House, other developer partners for the Starcore titles
          include:  GeoSystems  (a  subsidiary  of RR  Donnelley  &  Sons),
          Pensee, PenMagic Software Inc., and Blank, Berlyn & Co.











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                         A Comparison With The Sharp OZ-9600
                                                 
          While You're waiting for Newton...  Well, Apple has announced the
          Newton. It has shown a nonworking  mockup. It has touted its many
          futuristic  features. It has been called  the Communicator of the
          future. I  believe it!  The problem  with the future, however, is
          that it is always in the, ahh, "Future." I mean, if it wasn't, it
          would be the "Past"  or the "Now." I don't  want to wait for  the
          "Future!"  That's  why  I've  ordered  my  Personal Communicator,
          "Now."  Sharp  Electronics,  the company  that is going to  build
          the Apple Newton, is already selling a personal digital assistant
          (PDA) that "is  almost the same machine except  that it lacks the
          handwriting  recognition  capability  found in  the  Newton." The
          Sharp PDA is being marketed as an extension of the highly popular
          Wizard Organizer  series  and is  designated  the OZ-9600.    The
          OZ-9600  claims many of the same features as the Newton. Wireless
          communication  between units,  pen/touch screen  capability, etc.
          The ability to write  on the screen is limited,  however, to "ink
          capture." This means that you can write or draw on the screen and
          the Wizard  will capture the  image, which  can then be  saved or
          attached to another  file. Unlike  the Newton, the  Wizard has  a
          small QWERTY  keyboard. I personally consider  this an advantage.
          Others  may disagree.  The Sharp  Wizard OZ-9600's other features
          include:
                    Graphic icons and menus
                    Word  processor  functions  such as  formatting,  tabs,
          bold,               italics, underline, page  preview and  direct
          transfer            to printers.
                    Integrated  filing  system  -  categorizes  and  groups
          related             info into folders for touch-access.
                    An optional infrared receiver plugs into your printer's
                              parallel port to allow remote printing.
                    IC card port accepts existing Wizard applications (such
                         as  spreadsheets  and  language  translators)  and
                         RAM cards.
                    Time and database management. These functions include
                         "To Do" lists, calendars, schedule mode with 
                         unlimited alarms, business card directory,
                         calculator, outline function, 3
                         telephone/user files (which are actually databases
                         with 16 user definable fields each.
                    A screen size of 53 characters by 30 lines.
                    VT-100 and TTY terminal emulation. (Which I intend to 
                    use to check my email.)

          The OZ-9600 will connect  directly to a Mac with  Sharp's MacLink
          software and  cable, just like  my "old" OZ-8000.  However, until
          the  MacLink  software is  upgraded  (in  the "Future")  I'll  be
          limited to transferring  those functions which  the '9600 has  in
          common with the '8000.

          Don't  misunderstand me.  I intend  to buy  a Newton. It'll  be a

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          second generation  Newton, though.  With the pressure  that Apple
          has put on themselves with all the hype, I believe that, like the
          Quadras and PowerBooks,  there'll be a revised  version about six
          to  eight months after release, with many new features. Then I'll
          probably put  the  Wizard on  the shelf  right next  to my  Psion
          Organizer, Atari Portfolio, and the rest of my techno-toys.

          From America On Line
          Message posted in January, 1993 by KevinR















































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                     How Did the Idea for PDA's First Originate? 

          The Newton project  first began  about four years  ago. It was  a
          realization that Apple helped  define personal computing with the
          beginning  of   the  Apple  II  {computer}.   "We  helped  define
          graphics-based computing  for  the popular  Macintosh  {computer}
          platform, and we wanted to be in on the ground floor of what came
          after that.  So we set up a project team to investigate new kinds
          of  technology that could be far more intimate than what personal
          computers were. At that time, we really  didn't know where it was
          going to lead us, other than we thought miniaturization was going
          to be  important. We  felt that devices  were going  to get  more
          mobile and there would  be new input technologies. From  that, we
          have  come up with, what we think,  is a new industry more than a
          new product. And  we see that as really being  a personal digital
          assistant.     We think  it {PDA}  is even  more personal than  a
          personal  computer. We think that it's going to take advantage of
          the revolution in  digital technology. {Electronic}  networks are
          going from analog to digital. Content {information} is going from
          analog  to  digital.  Computing  devices are  becoming  not  only
          smaller but much less expensive. The convergence of these events,
          we  think,  is giving  us the  conditions  for this  entirely new
          industry to be created.       The assistant side of it is perhaps
          the  most  interesting  side,  because you  get  to  content-rich
          devices.  The problem is not  getting access to information, it's
          finding an easy way to deal  with a tremendous amount of possible
          information that you might want to use.      So  the  idea is  to
          have a product that's smart enough to go off and  find the things
          that you're interested in, letting you work in shorthand in terms
          of  communicating  with  it.  By  understanding  those  shorthand
          commands  and gestures, it can  actually do useful  things. It is
          something that  is  very  different  than  the  personal-computer
          architecture.       So  out of all  this, we started  to see that
          this wasn't the personal computer any more. The personal computer
          was  driven  by the  basic  idea  of creating  a  general-purpose
          product  that would essentially fit on the desktop and that would
          run applications that  were not dissimilar  from what people  had
          already  been doing,  such as  word processors,  spreadsheets and
          even data-base applications.       The      personal      digital
          assistants  were  something that  had to  become more  focused on
          communications in its architecture. It had to become  better able
          to  handle media-rich content, which meant the assistance side of
          it.  And  it  had  to  be  more  focused-purpose  as  opposed  to
          general-purpose than  the personal computer was.  This was really
          something that wasn't immediately obvious  to us when we  started
          the  project. It's  something in  which we  gained more  and more
          experience.    While  working  with  these new  technologies,  we
          started  going through an evolution. This thing was taking a very
          different shape compared to  a personal computer. Which shouldn't
          be surprising  because the personal computer  wasn't about making
          mini-computers  smaller.  It  was  a very  different  vision.  It
          shouldn't be surprising that  the PDA is a very  different vision

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          than a personal computer.


                            Why Introduce the Newton now?

          Timing  is everything in this  industry. You really  have to have
          the technology at a point where it will do the things that people
          expect it to be able to do. The technology is being pushed by the
          success of  notebook computers. We're seeing  a natural evolution
          toward miniaturization with the success of the notebook- computer
          market, which is now several billion dollars in size.   It's also
          going to get a push with the consumer-electronics industry, which
          is   really   at   the   moment   stuck    in   the   mud.   Most
          consumer-electronics companies are having a very tough time right
          now, as they  start to look to digital technology  as a potential
          avenue for growth in consumer products. It will drive the cost of
          components  down, along  with more  emphasis on  miniaturization.
          That's  going to be  very beneficial toward  PDA devices, because
          PDA  devices will  leverage as  much off  of what happens  in the
          consumer-electronics industry as it  will off of what happens  in
          the computer industry.   Even though  I don't  see the market  as
          initially   one  of  consumer-electronics  products,  there's  no
          question that  we can benefit from  what the consumer-electronics
          industry will do  with this  technology. They, in  turn, will  be
          looking  at  PDA-type  technology  that  they  can  convert  into
          consumer products.  You will  see digital consumer  products over
          the  next several years even  though they aren't  exactly what we
          and other companies are building for commercial markets. Which is
          why  you see  us in  an alliance, working  with companies  out of
          Japan,  with  Japanese  consumer-electronics  companies.  They're
          taking it more to the consumer field. We're taking it more to the
          commercial field.

          How is the Newton different?

          PDAs  are not  something that  are exclusive  to Apple.  PDAs can
          embrace  a  large  number of  new  kinds  of  products that  many
          companies  are planning to  offer. But what I  think {the idea of
          PDAs}  does  is that  it gives  a  context for  understanding new
          products. They aren't just making calculators more powerful. It's
          not just  taking a Sharp Wizard  and putting it on  steroids.  It
          really  is  an entirely  different  paradigm  for what  computing
          technology can be used for. I think  that we may well see some of
          these products  like Sharp Wizards and  palm-top computers evolve
          more toward what  I've been  describing as PDAs  for very  simple
          reasons. Digital networks will become pervasive, and we are going
          to  see intelligence on those  networks that will  enable PDAs to
          become far more useful than calculators on steroids or organizers
          on steroids are today.  We're clearly going to see  more and more
          content  being created  in  digital form.  It's quite  clear that
          content   owners  are   very  interested   in  finding   ways  to
          electronically publish their contents.  Another characteristic of

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          the  PDA is that  we will see  an entirely  new class of  ISVs --
          independent software  vendors. The ones  that write  applications
          for personal  computers aren't necessarily  going to be  the same
          ones who will be writing the mainstream content-rich applications
          and solutions for  PDAs. It may well be people  coming out of the
          publishing industry,  out of  the entertainment industry,  out of
          the  information-services industry.  They  may well  be the  ones
          writing the most valuable applications  and solutions for the PDA
          market.   In fact,  some people have criticized  Apple because we
          are not out evangelizing the traditional ISVs in the industry for
          personal  computers. The reason is  that we are  focusing most of
          our  efforts  on  people  who  own  content  or  people  who  are
          interested  in communications.  Not  people  who  do  traditional
          spreadsheets and word processors.

                     When will Newton impact the consumer market?

          I think the big  misconception about PDAs is that  they are going
          to start out as consumer products. I believe that if  you look at
          the adoption  curve for new  technology -- everything  from color
          TVs to VCRs, camcorders, fax  machines and cellular telephones --
          that the adoption curves take years before you start to get large
          critical-mass volumes.   In  the  case  of  the  fax  machine and
          cellular  telephone,  these  technologies  began  with commercial
          users. And now they  are starting to move  out into the  consumer
          marketplace because they are finally  reaching price points and a
          broad enough acceptance that  people know what they are  and what
          they are used for. And the price points are  more in the range of
          what people  expect consumer products  to cost. PDAs,  I believe,
          are going to have  their first success in commercial  markets. It
          would be a number of years, probably in the late 1990s, before we
          start to  see  real  consumer  markets emerging  for  PDAs.  Even
          cellular  telephones  today  are  just  starting  to  break  into
          consumer markets for the most part. Most of their sales are still
          from {business} users, not from consumers.   I  think we'll  also
          see PDAs playing  an important  role in education  because it  is
          such an important user  of personal computers. The type  of tasks
          that PDAs are well  suited to are ones that are  going to be very
          appropriate to education.  So you'll see Apple  marketing PDAs in
          education, as well as to commercial users.   But  that's  not  to
          say there aren't early adopters out there, those who will want to
          have  PDAs for  themselves. But  what we  see as  the big  market
          opportunity is connecting PDAs into systems for commercial users.
          Our  focus at  Apple  is we  integrate  a  PDA with  a  Macintosh
          {computer}, with a server {computer} and over a network -- to  be
          able  to  solve  some   particular  useful  task  for  commercial
          customers.  That's where our first  attention is. And  I think it
          will be  in that area for several years.  We think that is a very
          attractive, high-growth and potentially powerful market.

          What are some of the variations of PDAs we can expect to see?


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          I think that from the commercial-market standpoint, we have  with
          large  corporations  a  tremendous  need to  deal  with  mergers,
          reorganization, downsizing and things that  require organizations
          to  rethink the process of work flow through the organization. To
          do more  with  less, to  deal  with  training and  to  deal  with
          documentation.   Take, for  example, companies that  require huge
          amounts of documentation. The ability for a maintenance worker in
          the  field to carry that {documentation} around on a small device
          using optical  media  storage can  be very  appealing. There  are
          field  forces who are very  interested in being  able to compress
          the  time between the presentation  and the order  entry with the
          customer,  and delivering the order  back to the  factory. It has
          implications for things like  sales forecasting, parts  retrieval
          from inventory  and  inventory  turns.  As the  world  gets  more
          focused on  time-to-market as  a competitive advantage,  we think
          that what  the PDA has to  offer for work flow  assistance can be
          very   valuable,  particularly   as  organizations   become  more
          customer-focused  and  customer  satisfaction  becomes  a  higher
          criterion.  If  you combine the  flexibility of an  organization,
          time-to-market, customer satisfaction and  the PDA as a front-end
          device  connected  over  a  network  and  back  into  information
          systems, we think {PDAs}  are going to be an  extremely important
          market opportunity over  the next  several years --  just as  the
          personal computer developed into  a very big market, particularly
          during the 1980s. That  was all done in the space  of a decade. I
          think in  the space of a  decade, you're going to  see an equally
          big market for PDAs.

                       What price point is critical for PDA's?

          For  the  commercial market,  the issue  is  less price  and more
          mobility  and  customization  to  do  the  kinds  of  tasks  that
          particular commercial customer is most interested in. My guess is
          that these devices are going to cost under a $1,000  for the most
          part. Not to say that there won't be some that will be more fully
          functional  and will cost  more. But for  commercial customers, a
          product  in  that  price  range  seems  quite  reasonable.    The
          interesting thing is that if you go back just a year ago, most of
          the   personal-computer   industry   was   focused   on  building
          tablet-form factors  -- personal  computers with pen  inputs. And
          there were predictions being made that by the fall of 1992, there
          would be hundreds  of thousands  of these machines  sold by  many
          different  vendors  and that  they  would be  used  by commercial
          customers.  There is very little evidence that ever occurred.  We
          have  also seen in  that period of  time a really  major shift in
          terms of the vision and strategy of a large number of world-class
          manufacturers,  and what  they were  saying a  year ago  and what
          they're saying today. A year ago, they were talking about putting
          pen  input in computers, and the focus was on {Microsoft Corp.'s}
          Windows  for  their  pen  input  and  on  Go   Corp.'s  pen-input
          technology. We don't hear as much about that today.    Now    the
          focus  is  on  hand-held  devices --  more  communications,  more

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          intelligent  assistants. Basically  the idea  is what  we started
          talking about  with PDAs in the  early part of 1992.  And I think
          the industry is on the right track this time.     I  expect  that
          there  will  be  a large  number  of  manufacturers --  Japanese,
          American and  European  -- that  are going  to get  into the  PDA
          market. There are  some that are  going to focus  on the  network
          side  of  it. We'll  look  at  value-added networks,  intelligent
          networks. There are  some that are going  to focus on  the device
          itself.  There  are some  that are  going to  look  at it  as the
          logical  extension of the telephone -- that is, a mobile cellular
          telephone.  There are others that will  look at it as the logical
          extension  beyond computers. There are some who are going to come
          at  it  from  the   stand  point  of  content  and   provide  new
          services.      It's becoming clearer and  clearer that there is a
          new industry  that is emerging with  very significant world-class
          competitors in it. This is all good because it means the industry
          has  a real  likelihood of  being created  in a  relatively short
          period of time.

                         Won't Sharp be Competing with Apple?

          Absolutely, I think it  will be competition for Apple.  The first
          thing we had to do when we seriously looked at licensing out some
          of  our technology was that  we had to  significantly improve our
          own  time-to-market.  We had  to  significantly  improve our  own
          expenses  in our  system,  our own  sales  and marketing  system,
          because we had to be able to compete with other companies who are
          going to be our competitors.       The  reason  we're  optimistic
          that we  can compete  is that  we are a  systems company.  We can
          leverage  strengths  in  the  education   market,  small-business
          market,  in  a  growing  success  with  our  PowerBook  {notebook
          computers},  and  in  a  large  corporate  market.  As a  systems
          company,  we had an advantage in  that we think we understand how
          to connect  PDAs with personal computers,  with server computers,
          and to  deal with user-interface issues over a network as well as
          anyone  in  the  world.    Japanese  companies   have  a  greater
          competence than we do with device technology, but probably not as
          much experience as we do with systems.

          Why do People Need PDA's?

          The way you convince people is that you go out and take a problem
          that is real and you solve it in a compelling way. And that's why
          I  think that the opportunities for PDAs will begin in commercial
          markets  and education, where  there are  real problems  and real
          tasks that can be solved in a compelling way with a PDA.    Only
          after you reach  critical mass  and only after  you start to  see
          costs   come   down   and  capabilities   expand   in  successive
          generations,  will we  then start  to see  consumer-like products
          emerge. That's why I  see that the consumer opportunity  is real.
          But  it's  really  several years  out  in  the  future. It's  not
          something that's going to happen any time soon.

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                      Does Newton Always Recognize Handwriting?

          That's one  of the neat things  about Newton.  It  adapts to you.
          It gets better  at working the way you work.   It actually learns
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                         What Applications come with Newton?

          Several come with Newton.  Just tap the appropriate icon.
          1. Personal information manager.
          2. A daily planner / calendar
          3. A TO DO list manager
          4. A four function calculator with tape
          5. An in and out box for sharing information with others.
          6.  A   formulas  table  for  loan   payment  calculations,metric
          conversions, monetary exchange rates, etc.










































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                       How do you Store Information in Newton?

          Newton automatically  stores information  that is entered  in its
          underlying data  base.  This  relational data  base is  organized
          around date,  name,  location, and  graphics.   This  allows  any
          Newton  application to  access data  regardless of  where  it was
          created.  It also  allows developers a great deal  of flexibility
          in designing third party applications.












































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              What features make Newton's hardware architecture unique?

          1. A  built in RISC processor.   This is roughly  analogous to an
          80486-20 DX or a 68040.

          2. Very low  powered.   Able to  run for  days on  4 AA  alkaline
          batteries.

          3.  There  is also a lithium  battery which maintains the  static
          RAM should the standard batteries become fully discharged.

          4.  A built-in local talk network connector.

          5.  An infra-red window - like a TV remote control for exchanging
          information with other Newtons.

          6.   A  built-in  PCMCIA (pim-see  -  don't forget  you  saw it's
          pronunciation here first) slot.

          7.  Reflective super-twist screen.  High resolution - 85 DPI, 240
          x 336 pixels

          8.  Stylus input.  - Can  use any kind of pointed device to touch
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                              What does Newton sell for?

          Based on the options you buy,  the base Newton system should come
          in for under $700 to under $1000 with several peripherals.
















































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                      What comes in the box for the $700 range?

          The Newton message pad
          2 stylus's.  You get a third when you send in your registration.
          a protective slip case / cover
          AC adapter
          PCMCIA card that introduce the Newton and give you a guided tour
          PCMCIA card for handwriting training
          Owner's manual
          Warranty / registration card (1 year warranty is standard)
          a  video   tape  that  walks  you   through  features,  benefits,
          capabilities of Newton








































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                               What About Add-On Cards

          One  of  your best  bets for  card  information is  to  phone Tim
          McClosky  at Active  Data (mention  you heard  about him  here on
          AOL).   His number is 800-223-0503 (or 714-997-7718).  Tim really
          knows a lot about cards.

          The SRAM cards  are fast, require a battery, but don't drain your
          palmtop  unit.  At  this point they  MAY be a  little more stable
          technology.   Obviously, they and their data rely on the battery.
          Let that die, and there goes your info!

          Prices  for new SRAM cards  will run from $190 for  a 1 meg to as
          much as $500 for a  2 meg card.   When I bought mine from  Active
          Data, I paid a  little under $300 for the  2 meg.  He had  a sale
          going on then, and prices  have gone up recently for some  cards.
          EduCalc shows 2 meg cards from $320 - $500!

          For general  purpose, the  sram is  a little  faster  if that  is
          important to you.  If you  mainly want something to store lots of
          data,  and slight  speed loss  (may not  even be  noticeable) and
          increased palmtop  battery drain won't trouble  you, consider the
          For  general purpose,  the sram  is  a little  faster if  that is
          important to  you.  If you mainly want something to store lots of
          data,  and slight  speed loss  (may not  even be  noticeable) and
          increased palmtop  battery drain won't trouble  you, consider the
          For general  purpose,  the sram  is a  little faster  if that  is
          important to  you.  If you mainly  want some for general purpose,
          the sram is a little faster if that is important to you.   If you
          mainly want something  to store  lots of data,  and slight  speed
          loss (may not even  be noticeable) and increased  palmtop battery
          drain won't trouble you, consider the Folash unit.





















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                        What are the Standard Configurations?

          The  initial Newtons will be offered in  2 connection kits, a pro
          and a regular.  The regular connection kit allows you to transfer
          data  between a Windows  or a Macintosh system.   It includes the
          same  synchronization  technology that  apple  has  used for  its
          PowerBook Newton Neile synch utility.

          ->MessagePad unit with modem and connection kit - Order Number is
          H0006LL/A (Mac) and H0030LL/A (windows)

          The pro connection kit allows  you to import/export data directly
          from  your windows  or Macintosh  applications.   This is  only a
          software difference, the hardware is still the same.
          -> Order H0004LL/A (Mac) OR H0029LL/A (Windows)

          A messaging PCMCIA card will be offered by apple.  Essentially it
          is a wireless alphanumeric pager that integrates with your newton
          apps.

          The Fax Modem which  comes with the MessagePad transmits  at 2400
          data  and 9600 fax.  It  has V.42bis compression and the standard
          assortment of protocol support.

          The print Pack  allows the MessagePad  to print on  non-AppleTalk
          printers (that feature  is included).  It  works with dot-matrix,
          portable,  parallel printers.


























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                                   Dave's Wish List

          The following is  a compilation  of posts from  America On  Line.
          Your additional wishes and dreams are appreciated.

          I  had  a long  drive  over the  weekend  and  thought about  the
          practical  applications  that I  had  for  a NEWTON-like  device.
          While I'm sure  that the even the first generation of the NOTEPAD
          will be very  cool (and practical), the following is  my guess of
          things that will  be left  out of the  first generation  NEWTONS;
          things that could
          be added to make my NEWTON NOTEPAD more useful to me.

          Dave's  "Top 10" Things Apple left out of the Newton NotePad

          1. On-board DSP for  built-in modem/FAX functionality, for speech
          synthesis, and well, why not voice recognition.

          2. Built-in  printer (similar to those  calculators with printers
          built-in), even for just  "print screens" from the NotePad  while
          on-the-go.

          3. Real "buttons" on the NotePad's case so that I can play Tetris
          and other games.

          4. Add'l circuitry  to allow the NotePad's screen to  double as a
          miniature LCD TV so I can watch the BULLS while at work.

          5. A COLOR LCD so that my NotePad applications (and TV) can be in
          color.

          6.  A   suite  of   common  application  software,   scaled  down
          appropriately  for  the  Newton,  including:  WordPerfect,  Lotus
          w/Graphing, a Dbase that I can program, and scripting language.

          7. Built-in  Almanac,  MAPS (US,  etc)  with the  lexicon  that's
          supposed to be already  built-in.

          8. CD-ROM reader, so that the NotePad can also be a CD  ROM "book
          reader"

          9  A second PCMCIA slot, because the first one's always full.

          10. LONGER, longer, longer, battery life.  (Because you_know_this
          will be an issue from Day 1.)

          Boy, I can't wait for the second generation of NEWTON devices...






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          Subj:  I'd still like more
          Date:  93-06-29 20:12:33 EDT
          From:  Blackwdp

          YOU obviously don't understand the potential of such a device.

          If you'll read my note, I reference that I want a suite of common
          applications scaled appropriately for the NEWTON. 

          WORDPERFECTish:   I  don't expect the  full functionality  of WPC
          6.0/DOS.  I would like to  see something with a little more power
          than  TEACH  TEXT.   I want  a  "word processor"  appropriate for
          note-taking  (maybe  I  should  say "outlining  plus  notes")  at
          meetings, conferences, etc as well as writing  _simple_  business
          letters to be faxed out would  be nice.  And, oh yeah,  since the
          NEWTON is intuitive and has my rolodex, I'd like it to be able to
          "merge" the appropriate  name, address, fax number,  etc into the
          document.  Is that too much to ask?  I don't want to
          produce a technical manual in word processing on the NEWTON.

          Spreadsheeting:  Lotus is installed on every PC (90+ on my floor)
          in  my office.  HP even thought  it essential to include on their
          PalmTop  device.     While,  again,   I  don't   need  the   full
          functionality  Spreadsheeting:   You  obviously don't  work in  a
          business environment.  Lotus  is installed on every PC (90+ on my
          floor) in my office.  HP  even thought it essential to include on
          their  PalmTop device.    While, again,  I  don't need  the  full
          functionality  Spreadsheeting:   You  obviously don't  work in  a
          business  environment.  Lotus is installed on every PC (90+ on my
          floor) in  my office.  HP even thought it essential to include on
          their PalmTop  device.   While, again,  well you  get the  idea -
          Lotus 3.4a,  being able to  do some  fairly complex  calculations
          (future  value, amortization) would  be handy.   And merely being
          able to graph  these numbers to an exec or VP  at a meeting would
          be handy.  Sure, I  could go out and  get a PowerBook to do  that
          too, but again it seems a little over-kill when all I really want
          Lotus  for is  a  glorified programmable  calculator with  simple
          graphing of number sets.

          I  realize a lot of the market  for such PDAs are for "electronic
          organizing",  but if  you've  got the  CPU horsepower  there, you
          might  as well  exploit it  for  additional applications.   Other
          folks  may not  have the same  needs that  I do,  nor realize the
          potential  at hand.    With notebook  computers getting  smaller,
          cheaper, and more
          powerful, there's  going to have to be some reason to sway buyers
          to go the PDA route.  Otherwise, why not get the PDA software  to
          run  on a notebook  pc under PenPoint  OS???  If  it's just fancy
          electronic  organizing  you  want, go  out  and  get a  glorified
          Casio/Boss- type unit.  I, however, have my sights set on a
          next generation, powerful PDA.   (Remember, Motorola is targeting
          its  PowerPC  chip  toward  portable computing  devices,  not  to

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          exclude PDA-like  devices.).  Don't narrow  the Newton technology
          to  just the NOTEPAD; haven't you read that the NEWTON technology
          will be  migrated to  other hardware platforms,  including "PCs"?
          My guess is that we'll find a vast range of NEWTON devices in the
          next
          few years.   (Didn't someone already state  that there will be at
          least (3) "Newton" devices released by Apple in August?)

          I don't  know, maybe I'll change my mind  once I have a Newton in
          my  hands  for some  time,  but IMHO,  there's more  that  can be
          exploited  from such devices.  Guess  I'll just have to wait till
          August... 

          PS - I really think the lack of a DSP
                  is a big mistake.  Knowing the
                  potential advantages, I'd pay the
                  difference in cost.  I bet we see 
                  them in the near future.

          It will  be interesting to see  if you can have  graphics migrate
          from Mac scrapbooks  to newton faxes  etc. And  what about 8  bit
          picture  images (in color even if  they only display in black and
          white). Will wide spread  Newtons make Duos less desirable?   How
          long before  grey scale newtons. And really does 192k of user ram
          remind you of any familiar underpowered computers. 

          I swear anything less then  4 meg on any platform is  not enough!
          But then I do graphics.

          awaiting the release.

          Free Willy!
          Free Newton!

          Lou

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                           A Hands'On Review of the Newton

          Chu,  Apple's  Director  of  Product Planning  and  Scott  Petry,
          Product Manager  in the  Personal  Interactive Electronics  (PIE)
          division gave  additional information and a  demonstration of the
          Newton  Message  Pad. The  pad  has one  PCMCIA  II  slot for  an
          Alpple-labeled  2  MB flash  card or  pager  card. A  third party
          fax/data  modem card and several  other cards will  be ready when
          the Message Pad is released.

          Apple has done a great deal of work to make it  easy for the user
          to manage and exchange information needed on both, office systems
          and  Message  Pads.  Newton  Connection Kits  for  Macintosh  and
          Windows will automatically synchronize data and backup everything
          on  the Message Pad to  a home system.   Translation capabilities
          will be provided  for converting Newton  data to popular  desktop
          applications. The
          Newton  Connection Kit Pro  will work  directly with  popular PIM
          (Personal   Information  Manager)  applications  on  the  desktop
          platform.

          While a Message Pad owner is on travel, a secretary may enter new
          appointments into  the Newton Connection  Kit or  the user*s  PIM
          application, and  this new data will  automatically be downloaded
          to the Message Pad  the next time the user calls  in or lines the
          Pad to  the Mac's serial  port. And  the desktop systems  will be
          updated with additions, changes, or deletions made on the Message
          Pad.

          The Mac application has Synchronize, Restore, and Install Package
          menu selections and Datebook, Name file, and Notepad options. For
          those  who  are not  using  a  compatible Macintosh  application,
          simple dialogue forms allow  entering data for all of  the Newton
          'Rolodex' fields. Many  users will find it easier  to use the Mac
          keyboard to  add a bunch of addresses than to hand-write them all
          on the Newton.

          I  was   not  overly  impressed  with   the  Newton  hand-writing
          recognizer,  and they  did not  even attempt  to demonstrate  the
          cursive-hand-writing   recognizer!   Recognition  seemed   to  be
          somewhat  slow,  and  during  the  demo  it  converted  the  word
          Mactivity  to 'elasticity', even though Scott said he had entered
          the  word  into the  dictionary  beforehand. There  are  two text
          recognition modes: word  recognition and  character-for-character
          recognition.  If everything fails, a tiny image of a keyboard can
          be displayed and the *keys* can be tapped with the Newton stylus.

          MacWeek reported on other  recent demonstrations that were marred
          by recognition difficulties. It seemed to me that the recognition
          technology still is not as good as one would expect  and probably
          needs another  year or so  of work. In  my opinion, Apple  should
          stop putting so  much emphasis on the recognition technologies in

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          its  product   descriptions.  Customers   may  be   oversold  and
          disappointed with the product.  The Newton Message Pad is  a very
          impressive  product with  many  other useful  features, which  in
          their own right will justify the cost to many potential users.

          More disturbing  than the  hand-writing recognition problem,  the
          demonstration   model  also   had   difficulties   with   gesture
          recognition.  In two or three cases Scott had trouble marking the
          end of a note by moving the stylus horizontally across the entire
          width  of the pad. Instead of getting a note terminator including
          date-and-time
          stamp and scroll controls, his gestures was simply interpreted as
          a  horizontal line, a graphic  element being part  of the current
          note.

          When  the Newton Message  Pad is turned  on, the  note pad screen
          becomes  visible  and  is  ready  for  hand-writing  recognition.
          Graphics  do not require a mode change. Individual notes can take
          up  as much  space as  necessary on  the *endless*  Newton *paper
          roll.*  Hand-written words  and  sketched  graphic  elements  get
          converted to text fonts and smooth geometric elements after a one
          to two second delay as the user continues with input.

          If a  note includes the phrase, *Dear Bob,* for example, the user
          can highlight *Bob* and select the routing slip icon. If there is
          more than  one Bob  in Newton*s  name list, all  of them  will be
          displayed for user selection.  Routing options include  printing,
          faxing,  sending  via e-mail,  and  beaming  to other  Newton(s).
          Beaming is done over an infrared light beam.  

          When the user  selects the fax  transmission option, the  Message
          Pad offers to automatically reformat the note as a 8 x 10 letter,
          generating recipient and sender addresses, and punt.  If the user
          selects the fax  transmission option, the  Message Pad offers  to
          automatically  reformat the note as  a 8 x  10 letter, generating
          recipient and sender addresses, and  putting the result into  the
          outbox. As soon  as the Newton gets connected to  the phone line,
          the fax will be dispatched.

          The object oriented database of Newton tags each piece of data to
          find  it  independently  of  the application.  Mail  merging  and
          linking  of address book entries with the appointment calendar is
          transparent and in many cases completely automatic.

          Any developer can write applications that use the underlying DB*s
          capabilities.  Newton always  is communications  aware and  has a
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          Address book  16
          Beaming  15
          Calendars  16
          CE Software  16
          Christopher Escher  14
          Claris Corp  16
          Color imaging  8
          Dial-up electronic service  12
          Distribution and Availability  17
          Electronic Books  12
          Electronic Mail  15
          Ethernet  8
          Executive Organizer  12
          Fax  15
          Fingertip  16
          George Lucas  9
          Great Plains  16
          Integrated Systems  16
          Interactive intelligence  7
          John Sculley  14
          Kaleida  9
          Knowledge Navigator  9, 11, 12
          Licensing  16
          Marvin Minsky  12
          MessagePad  14
          Miniaturization  12
          Multimedia  7, 12
          Network  12
          Newton Connection Kit  16
          Newton Connection Pro Kit  16
          Newton Intelligence  14
          Newton Titles From PIE's Starcore Publishing Group  18
          NewtonMail  15
          On Technology  16
          Pastel and Pastel  16
          PCMCIA  8, 18
          PDA  8, 11, 12, 14
          Personal Digital Assistant  11, 12, 14
          Personal Digital Assistants  7
          Personal Interactive Electronics  7
          Picture phone  12
          Print  15
          Sales automation  8
          Sharp OZ-9600  20
          Slate  16
          Star Wars  9
          Starcore  16, 18
          Steve Jobs  9
          Strategic Mapping  16
          Voyager  12
          Wireless communicator  12
          Wireless technology  8

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