Tarihin samfuran Apple: Newton MessagePad ko PDA na farko daga Apple

Shekaru kadan kafin wayoyin hannu su fara mulkin duniyar fasaha, na'urorin da ake kira PDAs - Personal Digital Assistants - sun sami farin jini sosai a fannoni da dama. A farkon shekaru casa'in na karni na karshe, kamfanin Apple kuma ya fara kera wadannan na'urori.

Newton MessagePad nadi ne na PDA (Mataimakin Dijital na Sirri) daga taron bitar Apple. Ci gaban na'urar wannan layin samfurin ya koma ƙarshen shekaru tamanin na ƙarni na ƙarshe, samfurin farko na aikin Newton na iya gwada shi ta lokacin darektan kamfanin Apple John Sculley a 1991. Ci gaban Newton. da sauri ya sami ci gaba mai girma, kuma a ƙarshen Mayu na shekara mai zuwa, Apple a hukumance ya gabatar da shi ga duniya. Amma talakawa masu amfani da su jira har zuwa farkon watan Agusta 1993 da hukuma release Farashin wannan na'urar, dangane da model da kuma sanyi, jeri tsakanin 900 da 1569 daloli.

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Newton MessagePad na farko ya ɗauki ƙirar ƙirar H1000, an sanye shi da nunin LCD tare da ƙudurin 336 x 240 pixels, kuma ana iya sarrafa shi tare da taimakon salo na musamman. Wannan na'urar tana gudanar da tsarin aiki na Newton OS 1.0, Newton MessagePad na farko an sanye shi da na'ura mai sarrafa 20MHz ARM 610 RISC kuma tana da 4MB na ROM da 640KB na RAM. Batura AAA guda hudu ne suka samar da wutar lantarki, amma kuma ana iya haɗa na'urar zuwa wani waje.

A cikin watanni uku na farko daga farkon tallace-tallace, Apple ya yi nasarar sayar da 50 MessagePads, amma sabon sabon abu ya fara jawo zargi. Ba a karɓi sake dubawa masu inganci sosai ba, alal misali, ta rashin cika aikin gane rubutun hannu ko watakila rashin wasu nau'ikan kayan haɗi don haɗawa da kwamfuta a cikin fakitin ƙirar asali. Apple ya yanke shawarar dakatar da siyar da farko na Newton MessagePad a cikin 1994. A yau, MessagePad - duka na asali da kuma na gaba - masana da yawa suna ganin su a matsayin samfurin da ya kasance a wasu hanyoyi kafin lokacinsa.

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