Nothing?

Ok ok I must admit, the letter and word recognition on my model of newton is not the best, even slightly worst than I thought BUT, what redeems that is the facts there's a built in onscreen keyboard that you can bring up at any time by just tapping the screen twice wherever you want to type

Fair point

Egg freckles?

The feeling was mutual!

Maybe the newton just doesn't like you

Just got this PDA and it’s way more useful that I thought originally!

I had one of those exact models, and I would counter with no, no it’s not. Even if I thought it would be zero on the useful scale, my experience was that it was negative useful.

Wow, nice! And still works!

Check out this MacWorld edition from 1993!

https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9309_September_1993/page/n3/mode/1up

Note what Guy says about smartphones in the interview.

Thanks

You get to experience the basis for this joke firsthand

Prolly, just search USB to serial adapter, and DB9 to DIN 8 serial

Any things like that in the UK? Because I live in the uk

Yeah you're just paying a premium for not needing two cables/an adapter.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Converter-Prolific-Chipset-CB-DB9P/dp/B00IDSM6BW

https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Male-Connector-Cable-Converter/dp/B010ESEZU8

Should be the same thing for half the price.

ebay.co.uk/itm/146714004720? when i asked the seller "why is it so expensive" he said "you dont need to buy it" as if he made these cables with his own bare hands and didnt just re-sell them from ali express

$50 for a USB adapter? Isn't it just an rs232? You can find an 8 pin din to normal db9, then any usb to serial adapter.

I can't speak for the h1000, but my eMate 300 runs off modern rechargeable AAs perfectly. I replaced the rechargeable battery pack with my own home made one.

I essentially did this: http://newtonpoetry.com/2009/04/13/how-to-install-a-new-newton-emate-battery-pack/

i think my rechargables are 1.5v

i have rechargable aa betteries that i can use with the newton so i think il be fine interns of batteries

At the time rechargable AA and AAA batteries were Ni-Cad and wouldn't work because they don't produce enough voltage chemically. NIMh might have the same problem. Be prepared to have 1.5v Alkalines available.

im getting my h1000 for under 50$ so i think itl be worth it (it comes with its little baggie so thats a plus). i would get the newton 2100 but theres no listings for it where i live for under 100 atleast.

i have rechargable aa betteries that i can use with the newton so i think il be fine interns of batteries

Its a great device to experience the foundations of handheld computing. You'll get to see firsthand where some of the ideas that still exist in today's modern mobile phones came from. Its a piece of technological history.

Apart from that, be prepared to be disappointed with using it as a productivity tool. I got one secondhand in the late 1990s, and even then it was worthless as a productivity tool. The original model was significantly worse than the later ones.

The handwriting recognition was particularly horrible. This is one thing that got better in later Newtons. The battery life was also horrible. Even with the monochrome supertwist screen it just didn't allow for any long run time of use, and that was on functioning batteries from the day. I don't know if there are any modern replacement batteries using today's technologies.

Data transfer to and from the device was REALLY SLOW. If memory serves it was an RS-232 serial connection that topped out theoretically at 112kps, but was unreliably at that top speed requiring force drop in speed to 57.6kps or 38.4kps.

Don't forget, its large and heavy by today's mobile computing standards.

There's a reason that Palm PDAs and PalmOS ruled the 1990s and Newton didn't. You're about to get a front row seat to that experience.

Are you sure they're different? They might be similar enough honestly.

Here's a IIC + drive

And here's an 800k mac floppy.

I don't have any spare 800k drives lying around to compare. But here's more photos of a IIC+ drive.

Worst case just pop open the auto eject mechanism and take a look. It already doesn't work.

I think they are likekly to be different - the mechanism on a Mac can hold more per disk. There is a picture of a Mac drive and it looks different than the drive inside the shield of my Apple IIC+ internal drive.

Does it use the same mechanism as Macintoshs? If so those gears are really cheap now on ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235320197466

Lil noisy compared to the original. But 4 of them for the weed number you can't argue with that.