Apple newton

An early device in the PDA category (the Newton originated the term), it was the first to feature handwriting recognition. Apple started developing the platform in 1987 and shipped the first devices in August 1993. Production officially ended on February 27, 1998.

The Newton MessagePad 100 went on sale for $900 in 1993 dollars, or about $1,800 today.

Newton OS is a discontinued operating system for the Apple Newton PDAs produced by Apple Computer, Inc. between 1993 and 1997.

The Apple Newton was officially discontinued on February 27, 1998. If you know about the device, you're probably aware it had a rocky existence in its relatively brief time on Earth.

Even though the device improved dramatically over time, it failed to gain market share, and it was discontinued in 1997. Yet while the Newton was a failure, it galvanized Apple engineers to create something better—and in some ways led to the creation of the iPad and the iPhone.