Post #4347883
2026-08-02 02:31 UTC
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@younata@hachyderm.io 2026-08-02 04:30
Ok, so initial impressions: 1. There's so much whimsy in this. Deleting a note has a cute animation where the note is crumpled up and put into a trash can. Accompanied with a sound effect of crumpling paper. 2. I forgot how much resistive touchscreens suck. It takes an unreasonable amount of pressure for a touch to be recognized. Similar to when you're trying to use a ballpoint pen that's nearly out of ink. 3. The handwriting recognition is surprisingly good for the mid-90s. That said, it's still objectively bad. It's easy to forget that we didn't get good handwriting recognition until relatively recently. That said, Eat Up Martha is definitely still a thing, even though Simpsons was making fun of the original MessagePad. I'm going to keep trying, but it is frustrating. 4. The built in screen cover is so useful. Shame that the modern equivalent (an iPad) has the cover as a separate accessory. 5. The device itself is pleasantly chunky. They definitely did their best with then-current technology to make this as thin as possible, and I'm so glad the technology just wasn't there to make this thinner. 6. Turning on the backlight is non-obvious. You hold the power button for a bit until it turns off. Same deal to turn it off. Thanks NewtonFAQ for that (https://newtonfaq.com/newton-faq-hardware.html#IIC6c). 7. This thing is SO delightfully 90s. #AppleNewton
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@whophd@ioc.exchange 2026-08-03 07:28
@younata@hachyderm.io You know, daily driving a 2100 … hmm 🤔 I know I succeeded in 10Base-T (with an era-authentic Farallon PCMCIA dongletastic setup) but where did they end up with wifi … ?