[mattkevan]

Still use my old Newton eMate as a distraction-free writing device.

The keyboard is great, NewtonWorks is a capable word processor, the battery life is amazing and it makes cute beep boop noises when you touch the screen. Plus it looks like something David Cronenberg would design.

I've occasionally thought about modding it to house a rPi, but it would be sacrilege to gut something like that when it still works.

Incidentally, if anyone has a broken eMate knocking around I'd be very interested.

[cpach]

Cool! How do you transfer documents to your main computer?

[mattkevan]

I've got a serial-to-USB adapter, and NCX [0] by Simon Bell is a fully-featured device manager for importing and exporting documents, installing packages etc. It's basically a modern replacement for Apple's old Newton Connection Utilities.

[0] https://newtonresearch.org/connection/index.html

[afandian]

Thanks so much for bringing this up! I had lost all hope. I might get out my old eMate and MessagePad!

[cpach]

Cool! Love to see new tools for old hardware.

[severine]

Maybe this?

In addition to the expansion slot, the eMate also featured a single non-CardBus PCMCIA slot. It could be used for a number of different cards, including modems, ethernet cards, wireless cards, bluetooth cards, and flash memory (linear and ATA/Compact Flash).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300

edit: OP answered!

[mattkevan]

Yes, with a compatible WiFi card you can get it on the internet. Simon Bell also maintains a Newton email client.