FREE: Apple eMate 300

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I have an screen Apple emate 300 for those apple fans out there. working looks new except very small light scratch on. i have the original stylus still. .. i can not find the charger for it. i lost it during moving. im still looking for it though. they are about $10-15 on amazon... i know it worked fine when i played with it in march 2013. i changed the rechargeable batteries about 2 1/2 years ago and have not used it much since then. it takes 4 AA ...


history-Fifteen years ago, Apple released its first and only touchscreen laptop (so far), the often forgotten eMate 300. This translucent clamshell portable, which ran Apple's Newton PDA operating system, represented a bold experiment in educational computing and a drastic departure from Apple's traditional hardware design.

The machine's colorful case, which later inspired the iMac and the iBook, launched a new era in Apple design--though few realized it at the time. In fact, few people could actually buy the rugged machine when it launched in March 1997 through 1998, as Apple offered it for sale only through education channels. Shrine of Apple

With a 25MHz ARM CPU, 1MB of RAM, and 2MB of flash memory for document storage (unusual at a time when most PDAs used battery-backed RAM), the eMate wasn't made for heavy lifting. Instead, Apple designed it as a low-cost educational computer for children.

Indeed, the eMate was one of the cheapest computers Apple had ever made. Its $799 price (which is equivalent to about $1151 in today's dollars when adjusted for inflation)