The book is "Newton's Law - A Digital Nomad's Guide" by Andrew Gore and
Mitch Ratcliffe (1993: Random House, New York).
Besides covering Newton history, the Message Pad and MP100, the book
also looks ahead. The authors write: "Apple is thoroughly commited to
Newton. The company knows that this may be its best bet to make it
through to another decade. Executives in Cupertino certainly won't let
this Newton stand alone as the sole expression of such promising
technology" (p. 440).
So much for their view ahead! :-) But, it does have some excellent
history.
Patrick Jendraszak
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A Message from Patrick Jendraszak
On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 03:45 PM, Stephen Jendraszak wrote:
>
> There's a book by Andrew Gore (former Macworld editor) and someone else
> whose name I can't recall (Mitch something?), called Newton's Law. It is
> part of their "Digital Nomads" series, which included a book on
> PowerBooks, etc. It only covers the original and 100 MessagePads, but it
> also has a lot of Newton history, and the philosophy behind the Newton.
> A very good read. My father, who is also on this list, has it. Maybe he
> could fill in the gaps in my info?
>
> sj
>
> On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 01:52 PM, Frank Gruendel wrote:
>
>>
>>> Anybody ever heard of the book:
>>>
>>> Power Tips for the Apple Newton MessagePad
>>> by Lawrence Seldin
>>> Morris Publishing/1995
>>
>> I've recently been looking for this book because I wanted to
>> review it on my site. A google search in the newsgroups made
>> me think that this book is worthless. The nearly unanimous opinion
>> (except for that of the author himself who was the most frequent
>> poster) was that it contains wrong information, useless information
>> and a fair amount of spelling and grammar mistakes.
>> This is just what I read, I haven't seen this book yet. If you have a
>> copy, I'd be interested to borrow or purchase it.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> Newton hardware and software at http://www.pda-soft.de
>>
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