[spankibalt]

> "[...] every marketer intuited that a home computer would be used for storing recipes. It never happened."

Storing recipes "never happened"? Rubbish! Even famous cook Casey Ryback used his Apple Newton to store recipes, as evidenced in the 1995 documentary Under Siege 2 [1].

1. [https://starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=23]

[PeaceTed]

Yeah easy to say that but that is because they are the elite. They have a newton, do you? I don't! Time for Newton 2, I mean they are doing iPod sock 2 so why not Newton 2.

[kevindamm]

I still have my Newton but I wasn't, nor am I, elite.

I didn't store recipes on it, though.

[vjvjvjvjghv]

I would love to see a new Newton with the same spirit of innovation but current tech. Current phones are so boring. No innovation, just slow evolution.

[kevindamm]

It really was way ahead of its time. I remember the handwriting recognition being excellent for the time, too. Meanwhile Palm forced its users to write each letter one at a time in a tiny box and requiring specific sequencing of each stroke too.

Newton had a modem module you could plug in and third parties had written web browsers for it, it basically was the first smart phone just without the phone.

Trying to imagine that level of innovation, but starting from present day tech, is very interesting.

[ForOldHack]

I had the message pad 100 and a message pad 120. My handwriting improved, and it s recognition also improved. It was brilliant. I stored shopping lists and recipes on it. Although a lot of fun was made of the handwriting recognition, it was surprisingly good, and got better with use.