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Originally Posted by tomsem
The Newton was the first piece of Apple hardware I owned. My employer worked out a deal with them for 50% off or something like that of a limited quantity. This was the early days of PDAs and people still carried around Daytimers. I quickly realized I had no use for any sort of PDA, and the thing didn’t even play chess (maybe later on there was a chess app). I sold it to another employee a couple of weeks later for what I’d paid for it.
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Yes, it was a fun toy for a while, but wasn't particularly useful. I got a lot more use out of my palm pilot some 3 or 4 years later. The first table computer that I actually found useful was a windows based full sized tablet that had Microsoft notes on it.