[NTLK] News from the Weird ROM board

[Daniel Padilla]

That ROM board must have been used in that device they talk about in this
interview:

http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com.es/2009/05/messagepad-2000-design-thinking.html?m=1
El 18/10/2013 10:40, "Matthias Melcher" <mm at matthiasm.com> escribió:

>
> On 18.10.2013, at 09:09, Ed Kummel <tech_ed at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > No. I suspect that this is eWorld:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld
> >
> >
> > It was an online service that Apple put together to compete with AOL,
> CompuServe and Prodigy. It was designed to be a graphical environment that
> rivaled the ease of use that the Mac OS was so famous for.
>
> Ouch. There are some things that I don;t mind that they did not come to
> pass.
>
> But it is always a good reminder and helps answer the question why Newton
> doesn't come with a web browser or EMail client: the web was just not at
> that point yet.
>
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