An early HandHeld PersonalDigitalAssistant that pre-dated PalmPilot but had many devoted users. Monochrome and fairly big, only dial-up networking in those days but had handwriting recognition that was sophisticated even by today's standards. Was discontinued in the late 1990s.

Programmed in NewtonScript, a dialect of SelfLanguage.  Once you learned the object framework, it was a joy to hack on.  One could decompile the bytecode of any app with ViewFrame, even those in ROM, and get a fully indented symbolic listing.  ''This made it possible for me to write some glue to play a chess program for it called Deep Green on the internet chess servers.  Mmmm.... geeky! -- IanOsgood''

An underground development community has come up with useful items such as PcCard Ethernet and WiFi drivers.

There are still yearly World-Wide Newton Conferences. In 2006, they introduced an emulator for the Newton hardware that allows running the Newton Os on Linux based handhelds like the Zaurus or Nokia 770.
* http://wwnc.newtontalk.net/
* http://www.tow.com/2006/01/14/wwnc-2006/
* http://www.kallisys.com/newton/einstein/en

Did you know you can run a web server on your Newton?  Here is a dynamically served screenshot from such a server (note the familial resemblance with the current MacOsx dock.)
* http://ndutyme.dyndns.org:8088/screen/

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