Other comments have mentioned some options that the released Newton had, but the Newton actually had network support during development; we just couldn't work o

Other comments have mentioned some options that the released Newton had, but the Newton actually had network support during development; we just couldn't work out how to fit it in the package and make it affordable. When I first joined the Newton team the hardware guys were testing a spread-spectrum network that supported roaming devices with automatic discovery and connection. At that point all the working Newton hardware was big clunky naked circuit boards, so they tested them by ribbon-cabling them to Macintosh SEs that they wheeled around on carts to go from one network to another.