Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an #AppleNewton developer named Stephen A. Cronin.
He worked at #AMD and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.
Together they released a sequencer program for #NewtonOS called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.
My favourite #NewtonOS is 1.3, because I used it a lot back int days. Even 2.1 is supirior.
But thats why the #newton messagepad 120 with 1.3 is one of my favourite #pda
Twenty eight years ago today, #NewtonOS 2.0 received the “Mobility Award for System Software” at the Mobile Insights ’96 conference … beating out other contenders including Microsoft Windows 95, General Magic’s #MagicCap, and Geoworks’ Geos.
In addition to the full length “Love Notes to Newton” film, Noah Leon has recently published full interviews with with Steve Capps (author of the MacOS Finder and much of #NewtonOS), as well as James Joaquin (head of #AppleNewton marketing and business development).