March 7, 1997: Apple introduces the eMate
March 7th, 2008
On this day eleven years ago, Apple released the Newton eMate to try and reach the education market.
Applefritter has a nice rundown of the eMate’s abilities, but I’ll tell you: they’re so cheap on eBay now I’ve thought about getting one.
I like them because, in a way, they’re the harbingers to the original clamshell iBook G3 – my favorite Apple portable of all time.
Unlike the handwriting-based MessagePads, the eMate is keyboard-friendly. It sports an ARM 710a 25MHz RISC processor (view more technical details here) and hosts a word processing program, a drawing program, spreadsheet, address book, calendar and graphing calendar.