Sculley’s Dream: the Story Behind the Newton

LowEndMac has an in-depth article on the origins of one of Apple’s most elusive products: the Newton. “Sakoman’s end goal for Newton was to create a tablet computer priced about the same as a desktop computer. It would be the size of a folded A4 sheet of paper and would have cursive handwriting recognition and a special user interface. To run the enormously demanding handwriting recognition software, the tablet would have three AT&T Hobbit processors.” By the way, as most BeOS fans like myself know, AT&T’s Hobbit processor has been part of another elusive product.

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