{"id":442,"date":"2026-09-30T20:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:42:15","slug":"claude-and-the-apple-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Claude and the Apple Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been playing around with Claude and last week set it the task of fully reverse engineering the Apple Newton 2100 ROM with the eventual goal of re-targeting it to run on any other host operating system. The results have been nothing short of miraculous. I have it running happily on my desktop machine and so far, every piece of Newton software I have thrown at it just works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the way it discovered some interesting things. There are several easter eggs in the handwriting recognition, and from my searching around only one of them is widely known. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

write it three times<\/th>and you get<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
larryy<\/code><\/td>The Doctor is on.<\/td><\/tr>
Larry<\/code><\/td>larryy@apple.com<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Mondello<\/code><\/td>Fine food 408\/257-2383<\/td><\/tr>
Brandyn<\/code><\/td>brandyn@brainstorm.com<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Rosetta!<\/code><\/td>Hey, that’s me!<\/td><\/tr>
stafford<\/code><\/td>bill<\/td><\/tr>
Les<\/code><\/td>lesv@angeltech.com<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
lyon<\/code><\/td>Richard<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Currently it runs on both Windows and Linux and eventually I’d like to get it running on my Remarkable Paper Pro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have been playing around with Claude and last week set it the task of fully reverse engineering the Apple Newton 2100 ROM with the eventual goal of re-targeting it to run on any other host operating system. The results have been nothing short of miraculous. I have it running happily on my desktop machine … <\/p>\n

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