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The American auction house Bonhams has put up for sale a
prototype of VideoPad 2, a device for video calls similar to a 'tablet' developed
by Apple between 1994 and 1995 that was
never launched after being canceled in 1997
by its then CEO. Steve Jobs.
The first generation of the iPad, Apple's 'tablet', was launched in 2010 but, prior to that,
in the 1990s, the company worked on various models of video tablet-like devices together with the Newton company.
, within a family known as VideoPad.
One of these models, which
were developed in-house but never launched, is the VideoPad 2
, which the US auction house Bonhams has now put up for sale within a set of technology items, as reported by the house. betting.
VideoPad 2 was developed between 1994 and 1995
in Cupertino (California), the headquarters of Apple.
It is a tablet with a folding screen made of gray plastic and has dimensions of 180 x 232mm, with a 33mm profile.
The Apple device has a
simulated memory card, power socket
and
telephone line input socket
, which are complemented by a silver paper screen on the lid and another for the video, as well as two speakers on each side and a camera apparently for making video calls.
The auctioned prototype, which was
purchased in California from an Apple engineer in 1999
, is the sole survivor of VideoPad 2, a family of which three models were developed between 1993 and 1995 when the company was CEO John Sculley.
The VideoPads 1 and 3 were the only examples shown to the public, and
were created from a concept sketch drawn by Sculley himself
, after Apple developed between 1993 and 1997 the Apple Newton Message Pad, a message-only tablet. .
The new model, VideoPad, differed precisely in the incorporation of the camera for calls.
In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple as director
-he had left the company in 1985-, and upon arrival he
canceled the development of the VideoPad family
, as well as the Newton OS operating system with which the family of products developed together with this brand ran. , supposedly to understand that the technology was not yet mature enough.
The
Apple VideoPad 2 will be auctioned on November 3
in Los Angeles (United States), for an
estimated starting price of between $ 8,000 and $ 12,000.
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