As a supplement to this video, be sure you check out Apple Newton: Some History and Interesting Facts. This isn’t just an old handheld device. It’s a Newton, and as I’m starting to use the device more, plus get further insights from our readers on other capabilities of the Newton, I’m beginning to see the magic behind it. There is a very lively following behind the Newton today.

In this video, we take a tour of the hardware. We find that there is an inbuilt holder for the stylus, plus a smartly-placed stylus rest. We also find that of the two PCMCIA expansion slots, one is filled with 4MB of flash memory – and a quick comparison to the current flash memory standard for handheld device, microSD, lets use so how far we’ve come in the miniaturization of memory.

The next segmemt will cover a tour of the software on the Newton. As mentioned in the video, it has taken me a significant amount of time to learn how to use the Newton OS. Many aspects of it are intuitive, but the layout of everything is quite different than any modern mobile operating system. Interestingly, there are some similarities between OS X on the iPhone and Newton OS. More on that soon =D.

See also:

Apple Newton: Some History and Interesting Facts

Unboxing of the Newton MessagePad 2100

Apple Newton on Wikipedia