[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-09-08 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Re: ipad 3 lack of support. What gets me the most is that Apple doesn’t seem to allow old versions of app on the store anymore. Seems that they force developers to use the newer SDK which only supports IOS 10 and above. Hate That with a passion. Take care. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 8,

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-09-08 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Re: PDF I use a free app Pdfreader to view and usually just email the pdfs i want to read and save them that way. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 8, 2023, at 11:48, Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:23, Wayne S wrote: >> >> I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-09-08 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:23, Wayne S wrote: > > I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely great. Everything worked well on it > until apple  made IOS 10 which doesn’t run on it. Then, gradually, some > apps, like Amazon Prime TV, were upgraded to use 10 and above and simply > stopped working.

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-09-08 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely great. Everything worked well on it until apple  made IOS 10 which doesn’t run on it. Then, gradually, some apps, like Amazon Prime TV, were upgraded to use 10 and above and simply stopped working. I probably won’t buy another Ipad just because of that.

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-09-08 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 02:59, Wayne S via cctalk wrote: > > I used a newton and still have it a box. I have 2 of them myself. > It was heavy and very slow. Graffiti didn’t work very well either. The OMP was. I later bought a Newton 2100 and it's a very different beast. It's quite usable by

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-08-30 Thread John Many Jars via cctalk
I worked in an Apple repair center when they came out. Customers were bringing them in saying, "this doesn't work." It was working as well as it could, which wasn't very well... great idea though! Ahead of it's technology a bit.

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-08-29 Thread Ben Huntsman via cctalk
Haha, I was just poking at my old BB too. I miss that thing, it was pretty nice when hooked up to a BES. The iPhone has been the only device I ever liked better, and even then not every aspect. With RIM all but defunct I’d love to see the BB OS source be released some day too. Of course

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-08-29 Thread Gavin Scott via cctalk
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 7:38 PM David Arnold via cctalk wrote: > > Some of you might recall that Apple released a series of machines based > on the Newton OS in the early 1990s. BTDT, got the shirt. https://i.imgur.com/pgFDNrO.png

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-08-29 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Finishing up The BB and Palm and Treo were faster and far more usable that the Newton. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 29, 2023, at 18:59, Wayne S wrote: > > I used a newton and still have it a box. It was heavy and very slow. > Graffiti didn’t work very well either. Microsoft came put with

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-08-29 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
I used a newton and still have it a box. It was heavy and very slow. Graffiti didn’t work very well either. Microsoft came put with their first notepad running Win/NT a few years after that but it was slow too. I think Newton was just ahead of it’s time. The cpu’s needed to run it efficiently

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-08-29 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 8/29/23 7:28 PM, David Arnold wrote: Some of you might recall that Apple released a series of machines based on the Newton OS in the early 1990s. ACK How do Palm Pilot's compare to the Newton? I had someone I respect and trust make a lot of comparisons between a Palm T3 (?) I used to

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

2023-08-29 Thread Nigel Williams via cctalk
Thanks David for taking this on. I think there are many who would welcome Apple releasing Newton as they did for the early Macintosh implementations.