Retro Tech: Apple eMate 300
4,255Apple is well-known for its PowerBook series of laptops from the 1990s. But there was one portable computer the company made that had far-reaching effects -- and it wasn't even a Mac.
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Media shown in order of appearance:
Newton MessagePad 130: https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Apple-Newton-MessagePad.jpg
"An Early Look at the Apple eMate 300": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pJ4PhmvNxI
Apple eMate press release: https://web.archive.org/web/19981205071552/http://product.info.apple.com:80/pr/press.releases/1997/q1/961028.pr.rel.emate.html
"eMate 300 Quick Fact Sheet": https://msu.edu/~luckie/gallery/emate300.htm
"Cops take a byte out of crime," Computerworld, October 27, 1997.
Macworld Boston 1997 footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJs6MB077Bw
"Apple reports wider losses," CNN Money, October 15, 1997.
Apple Infinite Loop campus photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Headquarters_in_Cupertino.jpg
Steve Jobs email to Adam Tow: https://msu.edu/~luckie/jobslet.htm
Apple special event 1998 footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxwmF0OJ0vg
iMac image: http://www.stevesonian.com/museum/desktop/iMac/downloads/pictures/iMac_3q.jpg
Power Mac G3 image: http://s.appleinsider.ru/2011/04/power4.jpg
iBook image: http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/clamshell-ibook-bondiblue.jpg
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