· Release
Apple released one product on 7 March 1997: eMate 300.
It was the 2nd of 8 dated moments the archive holds for 1997, 18 days after the previous one, 17 February 1997.
Felix Winkelnkemper · CC BY-SA 4.0
Personal devices · Newton · discontinued 27 February 1998
The eMate 300 is a personal digital assistant designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer to the education market as a low-cost laptop running the Newton operating system. It was the only Apple Newton Device with a built-in keyboard. The eMate was introduced on March 7, 1997 for US$799 and was discontinued along with the Apple Newton product line and its operating system on February 27, 1998.
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