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hey guys john r Ettinger from TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing almost 13 years in the making there's been a lot of talk about an apple at Apple that's been coming I thought before we can see what a product you might do to get a perspective on the history of the product and really what they've done in the past so I've got an unboxing for you today of the last Apple Newton message pad the 2100 released just about 13 years ago it's a still a very exciting device and does a lot of things that eventually found their way into the iPhone and even Mac OS 10 as a whole a few very very cool things I think it's a device that will give us interesting perspective on where Apple may take this alleged isolate that's coming later on in the month let's go ahead and get to the unboxing this is of course not Apple packaging which is just you know set as is no this looks like a no idea what's in here the Newton is a very cool device it was really one of the first and the biggest messaging pads out there came out around you know if you do the math around the 97 ish time really right when the Palm Pilot was starting to become more mainstream Newton's a much larger device but definitely did a lot more than the initial palm offerings and it certainly was years before or about a year or so before Windows CE II was even thought of or announced so let it go ahead get to the unboxing enough of me babbling this is what you guys want to see you definitely what I want to see I'm really curious about the new and I think it's going to give a nice perspective a little bit of a history lesson on Apple product to the holes and this is probably one of the most talked about Apple products good or bad in their company's history the voice heard a lot of great things about the UI on the Newton but you only see the Newton associated with a product failure so not really sure what to expect with this put the knife aside let's go ahead and dig in and see what we have and this is just you know packaging certainly not the way it initially came so just a little bit of styrofoam and there is the Newton mess up at 2100 this is the last of the message pad lines as the most someone I would say that was out there and it is big I'll do some size conversions for you if there's a battery door on the side of course our power adapter and that's about it push this box off to the side and let's take a look at the Newton's certainly not coming videos I'll be walking you through the software the hardware showing you what it does and why in a lot of ways this is still a relatively modern device as far as technology and surely is gonna be a good comparison with even a device like the iPhone 4 what this can do you know almost 13 years ago that the iPhone still maybe cannot do so here is the message pad it's a pretty nice weight in size Freyja comparison here is the iPhone 3GS so you can definitely see that this is a big honkin device which is relatively thick you've got a screen right here which is opened up I believe just by pushing that and we'll do a full hardware overview as well of this but let me go over some of the specs this thing has a strong arm 110 processor which I believe is about 162 megahertz so it's certainly not the most powerful processor it's got 8 megabytes of ROM a for internal and actually for that are in one of these PC slots there two of them here and these could do a sort of a ton of a ton of cool things when it first came out let's see what we got going on here so watch out one of these four megabytes yep that PCMCIA amazing that this big huge card is 4 megabytes backed over 13 years ago you look now at micro sd and even SD cards and you get you know 16 32 gigabytes on one of these this was 4 megabytes you know probably came in for 8 or maybe didn't succeed and that was huge this would barely even hold 2 songs so it's kind of a nice perspective on how far coming technology I believe that this actually shipped with the Apple Newton the edge 4 megabyte flash card I remember having 4 megabytes thinking that was a lot of room so if you guys are a little bit older you remember that as well I think we've got a dummy slot as well with just a uh a filler one in there but we'll go over all this at a later time and there were things you could put in there too that made this a little more so you couldn't think of facts with it there's even a modem that you could send and even do some possible emailing with certainly no no internet though at the time it's going to take a look at some of the other specs that this has one of the interesting things is the screen size and the screen resolution it's the resolution of 480 by 320 which if that sounds familiar for you exactly the same resolution as the iPhone certainly this only shows just a few shades of grey the iPhone definitely shows many many colors but resolution wise it's exactly the same and something that you probably haven't seen from Apple we've got a stylus this is definitely not the stylus that first came from with the Newton Sims from Nabisco probably came free or bundled with something but this is what the shipper included it with that means we are dealing with a resistive touchscreen it does feel very hard in glass like it's not relatively squishy certainly a stylus is probably not something that you would expect from an Apple product one cool thing about this so that I have seen other videos and other bright ups got a little bit of style of styler right on top so you can just doctor psilocin do your writing and keep on going the message pad just does a ton of really cool things I'm looking forward to showing it to you it's always kind of fun and nostalgic to see the old Apple logo to the color guy when it was Apple computers we also noticed this is Newton technology Apple actually spun off the Newton technology from Apple which made their own company that's why it's branded as such on the device so it's a real quick walk through and then we'll save all the rest of it for um for future videos you've got some rubber feet here you've got some little connectors that would have been possibly used for some sort of dock adapter feet to make it stand up there was another little bit a bit of a numb forever might have been a potential dock on the top you've got your IR port serial port so I think computer haven't seen the serial port in many many years your power and what would have been your stylus ila but certainly this is not the proper stylus as you can see I assumed it would have sort of snapped in and clicked we've got a big speaker on the front your Newton message pad 2100 and what I would is probably a microphone a little do some checking on that to let you guys know battery pack looks like the door is falling out so you want to get that out your pipes using a little bit of shaking but we'll plug it in and try the power that way and your power and hold switch on the left-hand side anyway guys this is the first reefers look at the Newton message pad you can see where the the tablet is the legend isolate is going to be going they take a further look at the mutant device hope you guys enjoyed definitely stay tuned for TechnoBuffalo for a lot more information and details on the device I'm John Rhett enger' and I'll see you the next video bye