[NTLK] credit where it's due, was: More MacPad Rumors

It would be interesting to ask some of the people who were part of the Newton team how much of the KN and PDA the pepsi man actually did invent himself. He was a marketer, not an engineer, but perhaps he had some conceptual input.

Are we're also here in this forum because of Reagan, Bush #1, and Clinton, since they were the overall leaders during that time period. Who was the UN General Secretary back then, Boutros-Boutros Ghali?

-- Peter
pjfraser@mac.com

 
On Monday, July 13, 2009, at 03:34PM, "RCMP_Mike" <rcmpmike@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Peter,
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>Sculley was the driving force behind the Knowledge Navigator concept which
>went on to become Newton PDA. In fact Personal Digital Assistant was coined
>by Sculley.
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>So we are here because of Sculley AND Apple.
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>From: "Peter Fraser" <pjfraser@mac.com>
>Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 17:57
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>Subject: Re: [NTLK] More MacPad Rumors
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>> ...we're in this forum because of something that happened at Apple while
>> Sculley was there, but at the end of the day, it's because of Apple.
>>
>> I didn't mention Jobs, actually.
>>
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