A sad anniversary, but hope for the future

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Wed, 02/27/2008 - 9:00pm

Today is the tenth anniversary of the official death of Apple's Newton, the world's first PDA (personal digital assistant).

There were pocket computers before the Newton, but the Newton was the first device to target PDA functionality so specifically.

Peter's MessagePad 2100

(Credit: Peter N.

Glaskowsky)

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