Sharp Corporation licensed and produced a variant of the original MessagePad as the Sharp Expert Pad PI-7000. The MessagePad 100 contained virtually the same hardware as the original MessagePad, but the newer model's ROM could be updated from version 1.2 to 1.3, neither of which was supported on the original.
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A new ROM upgrade with Newton OS 1.1 became available on Octothat could be installed by an Apple Authorized Service Provider. Software patches updated the OS from version 1.0 to 1.0.5. The monochrome LCD screen displayed 336 x 240 pixels. Storage space could be expanded through the PCMCIA Type II slot. 448 to 482 KB of RAM was used by Newton OS, depending on the version, leaving 158 to 192 KB available for user data. The MessagePad featured a 20 MHz ARM 610 processor with 640 KB of static RAM. It was discontinued on Mawith the release of the MessagePad 100. However, there were accusations of price gouging as high as $897 of early customers who had waited in long lines. It finally began shipping on Augat Macworld Expo Boston for the base price of US$699.
However, it was still beset by thousands of bugs when 4,000 prototype units went into production on for use at point-of-purchase displays at retail stores. Release Īpple CEO John Sculley unveiled the first device, tentatively called the Newton NotePad, on during the keynote address of the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Illinois.
Three Newton models were originally planned for release: a large 9 x 12 inch version codenamed Senior, a mid-sized 6 x 9 inch version that was quickly cancelled, and a small 4.5 x 7 inch version codenamed Junior which would go on to become the first MessagePad.
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