
MessagePad
Apple's first Newton — the original MessagePad (H1000). Unveiled by John Sculley at Macworld 1993, it launched the personal digital assistant category with a stylus-driven touchscreen and Newton OS.Apple 第一部 Newton——初代 MessagePad(H1000)。由 John Sculley 於 1993 年 Macworld 發表,以觸控筆操作的觸控螢幕與 Newton OS 開創了個人數位助理這個品類。
Sculley coined the term 'personal digital assistant' for this machine — but its handwriting recognition was so erratic that Doonesbury turned it into a running joke.Sculley 為這台機器創造了「個人數位助理」(personal digital assistant)一詞——但它的手寫辨識太不穩定,被《杜恩斯比利》漫畫拿來當作長期的笑柄。
Unveiled by John Sculley in 1992 and shipped in August 1993, the original MessagePad (H1000) launched the personal digital assistant category with a stylus-driven touchscreen and Newton OS. Its flawed handwriting recognition became infamous, but it pioneered ideas — and even the ARM processor architecture — that still shape mobile computing today.第一代 MessagePad(H1000)由 John Sculley 於 1992 年發表、1993 年 8 月上市,以觸控筆操作的觸控螢幕與 Newton OS 開創了個人數位助理(PDA)這個品類。它差強人意的手寫辨識雖成為話題,卻也開創了至今仍影響行動運算的概念——甚至連 ARM 處理器架構也是由此而起。
| Introduced推出 | August 3, 1993 (announced May 1992) |
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| Discontinued停產 | March 1994 |
| Processor處理器 | ARM 610 @ 20 MHz |
| Memory記憶體 | 640 KB SRAM (490 KB system + 150 KB user storage); 4 MB ROM |
| Storage儲存 | Internal SRAM + 1 PCMCIA Type II slot |
| Display顯示 | 336×240 monochrome LCD |
| Operating system作業系統 | Newton OS 1.0 (upgradable to 1.1.1) |
| Original price原價 | US$699 |
| Weight重量 | 0.4 kg (0.88 lb) |
| Dimensions尺寸 | 184.75 × 114.3 × 19.05 mm (7.27 × 4.50 × 0.75 in) |


