Bruno Kerouanton

Back in 1995,

I bought an Apple Newton MessagePad 100 as I was still in the development field, and that my goal was to develop some applications on it. Since the beginning I’ve always been fond of PDAs and small devices as I’ve started learning programming on a Casio PB80 a long time ago, and then never ceased buying new handhelds for fun and programming. Until now, I’ve programmed on several Casio devices (Basic), HP48 (RPN and Saturn assembler), Atari Portfolio (C and 8088 assembler), Psion 3 then 5 (OPL), and now PocketPC 2002 (eMbedded visual C)…

My adventures with the MessagePad 100 were interesting. At that time, I also had some knowledge on Mac programming as I had bought Spectre GCR – a Mac emulator – on my Atari Mega ST and had started looking around with ResEdit and the inner workings of System7 by reading the Inside Macintosh books. I didn’t spend too much time coding for the Mac, but I liked the concept and that was the reason I felt motivated with programming the Newton, which was a really cool and futurist device at that time.

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