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I just picked up a Newton MessagePad 2100 for my collection today. Compared to my iPhone X it's more a toy than anything else but I'm intrigued by retro tech... I can see myself using this MessagePad for something :) As you can see in the pic the messagepad needs a little love...

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The 2000 and 2100 MessagePads have two PCMCIA slots
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So I have an ethernet card in one slot and a 20MB flash storage card in the other. This messagepad comes with 8MB RAM which is practically nothing compared to the 256GB my iPhone X has...

I'm amazed what could be done with just that amount of memory back in the day... the messagepad still works so I will recondition this device and have it restored properly again before putting it in my collection....
 
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