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"... Holy Egg Freckles! ..." The cartoon, a doonesberry (Garry Trudeau) ~ http://www.doonesberry.com http://www.doonesberry.com is lampooning the apple Newton
by bootload 19y ago
"... Holy Egg Freckles! ..."
The cartoon, a doonesberry (Garry Trudeau) ~ http://www.doonesberry.com http://www.doonesberry.com is lampooning the apple Newton back in '93 and neatly sums up the problem of HW recognition. Apple scrapped the Newton. The idea survived in a simpler form called Graffiti. It's creator, Jeff Hawkins ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins along with MBA Donna Dubinsky ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky both went to found Palm computing.
In '98 I was working with a company that wanted to make a web based product out of their Intranet version ... it just wasn't feasible to tie up a consultant for half the day to install an oracle db backend, web-server front-end. Taking notes I pulled out my trusty Palm III and proceeded to use Graffiti software to copy down the notes. Then to my surprise a honcho there lumbered out his rather large Newton.
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At the time the Palms where pretty small. Smaller enough to fit in your shirt pocket. The Newton by comparison was huge. And to boot it suffered from the HW problems the doonesberry cartoon portrays.