Monday, January 25, 2010

Little known, the first tablet for Apple in 1983

Many have anticipated that a Apple will be releasing a tablet for the event on 27th Jan.

The all powerful tablet that runs on Unicorn's tears and a strand of Medusa's hair.




I, for one is not really that interested in a tablet unless its really revolutionary.. I am looking however if new iLife 10 is being announced. I will be interested to see if there will be updates for Garageband and iMovie.

Little known fact is that Apple has been infact toying with a tablet since 1983, with pictures to prove of course..


This product shares the same name with Santa's reindeer

Named Bashful.. It was designed by Frog Design, which also helped create Apple IIc. Needless to say they were the one that leaked out the photos.



I must say this Bashful is really slim for its time, with keyboards and stylus. Infact several versions were toyed alround with featuring phone functionalities and possible disk drives.

Another proof that Apple was way ahead of its time. Speaking of which anyone knows where I can still get a Apple Newton?

Source : Wired
Observed by Testdrive at 4:42 PM

2 comments:

Genghis7777 said...

This website has a list of vendors from which you can get a Newton. Just follow the sidebar down until you hit the "Newton Hardware" section: http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com

Once you try it, you'll be surprised by how backward current implementations of user interfaces appear.

Even the iPhone, arguably Apple's Newton successor lacks the screen size and the handwriting recognition that captures the Newton's essence.

The slate can go some way towards addressing the screen size but to implement handwriting recognition they will have to release a whole new OS version so that all third party apps can have access to the HWR system.

9:25 PM
Ju (The Little Teochew) said...

Hello! Hello! What a surprise! Good to know you're a blogger too. :)

9:54 AM

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