MessagePad

The MessagePad was a series of touchscreen mobile devices and the very first tablet computer released by Apple Computer.

History
The original MessagePad was released in August 1993 running a monochrome version of Newton OS, which was advanced for its day and came with a stylus similar to the. The MessagePad 2000 introduced grayscale support in March 1997, but the Newton platform was discontinued in February 1998.

The successor to the MessagePad is the iPad, which was released in 2010; a similar stylus did not appear until the Apple Pencil was released for the iPad Pro in 2015.

Models

 * MessagePad (model H1000), also known as the "Original MessagePad" or "OMP".
 * MessagePad 100, same hardware as OMP, but newer system version.
 * MessagePad 110
 * MessagePad 120
 * MessagePad 130
 * MessagePad 2000
 * MessagePad 2100