PDA Developers – Volume 4.2 – March/April 1996
PDA Developers, originally PIE Developers, was the premier, independent printed resource for mobile developers in the mid-to-late 1990s. Billing itself as “A Technical Journal for PDA Developers,” each issue contained detailed articles, tutorials, and coding examples covering all major handheld platforms.
Published by San Francisco-based Creative Digital Systems, the journal was expertly managed and edited by Steve Mann (who also wrote a number of articles in each issue).
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Artifact Details
Creative Digital, Inc.
United States
English
March, 1996
$13.95 US, $14.95 Canada
Perfect bound printed journal with cream-colored cover and white paper.
In this issue:
- PDA News
- IR Reflections
- The Megahertz AllPoints Wireless Modem
- Previews (Palm Ups the Ante with Pilot, The Palm Operating System - Technology Overview, The ParaGraph Newton 2.0 Recognizer, PSION's DBS)
- Reviews (Newton 2.0, Freestyle, FlashData 1.9, PSION's New OPL SDK, The Newton Goes On-line)
- Moving HP95LX Data to the OmniGo 100
- NS BASIC Corner
- Stationery: A New Way to Make Newton Apps
- PAL Dialogs
- Inside PAL Dialogs
- NewtApp: The Newton Application Framework
- Using Magic Cap's TCP/IP Stack
- OmniGo 100/Macintosh Connectivity
8.5" x 11" (60 pages)
PDA Developers 4.2
March, 1996
Acquired from publisher
2018-07-24
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PDA Developers Volume 4.2, dated March/April 1996, billed itself as "A Technical Journal for PDA Developers" and sold for $13.95 in the United States and $14.95 in Canada.1 It was published by Creative Digital, Inc.,2 a San Francisco company that also organized the journal's associated developer conferences.3
The publication had begun under a different name and a narrower focus. Its predecessor, PIE Developers, described itself as "A Technical Journal for Newton Developers" and sold for $8.95 in the United States; its November 1993 issue (Volume 1.15) was a special reprint of earlier material prepared for the Newton Platform Development Conference held December 7-8, 1993.4 An April 1995 conference announcement identified the publisher as Creative Digital Systems of San Francisco,3 and by early 1996 the company was styled Creative Digital, Inc.2 By the time the journal was retitled PDA Developers, its focus had widened from the Newton specifically to handheld computing generally.14
Volume 4.2 reflected that broader remit across its cover lineup, which spanned several handheld platforms: the Palm Pilot and the Pilot OS, OmniGo/Mac connectivity, HP95LX-to-OmniGo migration, Newton 2.0, stationery applications, PAL dialogs, NewtApp, Magic Cap TCP/IP, and CalliGrapher, plus reviews of Newton communications software, Freestyle, FlashData, and Psion's OPL SDK.1
The issue's back cover carried a full-page advertisement for Metrowerks CodeWarrior, promoted as the world's best-selling Macintosh development tools and offered in a Magic Cap development edition.5 Creative Digital also ran developer conferences under the PDA Developers name; PDA Developers West '96 was held January 14-16, 1996 in San Mateo, California, sponsored by General Magic, Psion, and Hewlett-Packard.2 By March 1997 the company, by then named Creative Digital Publishing Inc., had renamed the event the Handheld Systems Conference, scheduling its third edition for April 24-26, 1997 at the San Francisco Airport Hilton with Steve Mann as the company's contact.6
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Footnotes
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers - Volume 4.2 - March/April 1996 (image scan), March 1996
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers West '96 Conference Details (Pamphlet) (image scan), January 1996
- Creative Digital, Inc., Creative Digital Systems - PDA Developers East '95 (Press Release) (image scan), April 1, 1995
- Creative Digital, Inc., PIE Developers - Volume 1.15 - November, 1993 (image scan), November 1993
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers - Volume 4.2 - March/April 1996 (image scan), March 1996
- Creative Digital Publishing Inc., Creative Digital Posts Handheld Systems Conference Final Agenda, March 17, 1997
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