Twitter mate of mine Giles Booth posted this on Flickr the other day, and it had me doing a double-take for a moment.
No, it isn’t actually running Newton OS. It’s displaying a picture. Just like this other image of a Kindle “running” Macintosh System 1.
You can put custom pictures on your Kindle if you like – try using these instructions. See what other classic Apple software you can “run” on your Kindle. Clarisworks? Eudora? Hypercard? Ahh, memories…
(Photo by Giles Booth, re-published with permission)
Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He also writes for the Press Association and The Morning News. You can find out more at his website, and follow him on Twitter @gilest.
3 responses to “When Kindle Met Newton OS”
Those instructions dont work on the current generation Kindle, like the one pictured.
They dont have a line of numbers to be able to do all the keyboard shortcuts, the only way at the moment to put a custom screensaver image on the new kindles atm is to hack it.
Amazon say that they are working on new firmware which will have a custom screensaver feature.
Very interesting.