Birth of the Newton, egg freckles not included

If Evan Koblentz's recent treatise on the history of the PDA has whetted your appetite for more info on early handhelds — or if you're an insatiable Apple addict — Thomas Hormby of OSViews delivers the goods on the birth of the Newton. If you're already familiar with the device's early days, you may not find anything new here, though it's always interesting to see what happens when engineering and marketing staffs forget to talk to each other (in this case, you end up with a prototype for an $8,000 tablet computer). And the link to the Knowledge Navigator video — a compelling fantasy even now — is particularly sweet.

[Via Slashdot]