The PC1 was a pocketable computer (mostly used as a word processor) but it wasn't a PDA. Scully popularized the term PDA; Newton did quite a lot that presaged t

The PC1 was a pocketable computer (mostly used as a word processor) but it wasn't a PDA. Scully popularized the term PDA; Newton did quite a lot that presaged the current generation of devices and made it clear what they were good for. Most notably, Newton was one of the first handheld devices to give up the keyboard in exchange for an entirely screen-based UI, which demanded new metaphors and interaction models. The most notable contemporary was the Casio Zoomer, but there really wasn't anything else in the Newton's class at the time. Here's an amusing blow-by-blow comparison of the Newton to the iPhone: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/apple-newton-vs-apple-iphone-49304363/ http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/apple-newton-vs-apple-iphone... Apple's Newton was "a win" for Apple in the sense that it proved the viability of the PDA as a category and, like I said, pioneered all these new concepts - doing things more elegantly or impressively in a smaller package than had been done before. I still miss some of the features Newton had and hope one day to get a product that brings them back. (FWIW, I worked in the Newton Systems Group on the 2.x operating system and wrote the paint program NewtPaint)