[H-GEN] Hand Held Computers

[David Shackleton]

On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, A Bruce in the Land of the Bruces wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, David Shackleton wrote:
> > "both are programmable devices"
> > 
> > The last time I checked out the Newton's for a programming project (stock
> > control) there wasn't a lot of choice other than burn a PCMCIA card for
> > use in the Newton...  has this changed considerably?
> 
> The MessagePad 2000 series are, full SDK running on a mac.

I think there's been a Newton SDK running on the Mac for quite sometime.
What I meant to ask related to the options available for the storage of
the runtime code on the units themselves.

On other units at that time (like the Nippondenso BHT-3000 series), we
were able to have the code 'uploaded' into their battery-backed RAM thus
allowing very quick development/testing cycles.  At the time, the
impression I got (from my Newton developer contact) was that the Newton's
only worked via the PCMCIA interface. 

IMHO, IIRC, TheOpinionsExpressedHDNRTOME etc etc

Cheers,
David

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