PIE Developers – Volume 2.5 – September, 1994
PIE Developers, later PDA Developers, was the premier, independent printed resource for PDA developers in the mid-to-late 1990s. Originally billing itself as “A Technical Journal for Newton Developers,” the journal began the shift to include other handheld platforms featuring detailed articles, tutorials, and coding examples.
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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Creative Digital, Inc.
United States
English
September, 1994
$10.95 US, $11.95 Canada
Saddled-stitched printed journal on cream-colored paper.
In this issue:
- PDA News
- Reviews and Previews (FilePad, Digital Ocean Group 100MP, NewPage, NewtRTMF, QuickFigure Pro 2.0, Gulliver)
- Getting Objective
- Building the Perfect Beast IV
- Newton and the PowerOffHandler
- Patching the System
- FCS: Personalized Classification and Retrieval
- Newton Dating
- Scrolling Madness
- The Newton Operating System
8.5" x 11" (54 pages)
PIE Developers 2.5
September, 1994
Acquired from publisher
2018-07-21
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PIE Developers Volume 2.5, dated September 1994, was a technical journal for handheld and personal digital assistant (PDA) developers, sold for $10.95 in the United States and $11.95 in Canada.1 Although the issue's logo still read PIE Developers, its cover banner already billed it as "A Technical Journal for PDA Developers," and its contents centered on Apple's Newton — a "Newton System Secrets" feature on proto-proto-layer patching, the Date Book, and Newton OS internals, a piece on the NotePad, "50 Ways to Scroll Your Newton," and coverage of object-oriented NewtonScript and wireless.1
The journal was published by Creative Digital Systems.1 The back cover of the issue carried a full-page advertisement for ScriptLink, a product billed as "connecting the Newton to the world" that let Newton applications drive Macintosh AppleScript programs over an AppleTalk network; the ScriptLink Developer Kit was offered at $450, or $425 to PIE Developers subscribers, developed and published by Momentum of Australia and distributed by Creative Digital Systems.1
With its following issue, Volume 2.6 (November/December 1994), the journal changed its masthead from PIE Developers to PDA Developers — the new cover identifying it as the journal "formerly PIE Developers" — and widened its coverage beyond the Newton to other handheld platforms, including Psion and GEOS.2 Creative Digital carried the franchise forward through the decade; by 1997 the company, then operating as Creative Digital Publishing Inc., had folded the former PDA Developers conference into the Handheld Systems Conference, with Steve Mann as its contact.3
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Footnotes
- Creative Digital, Inc., PIE Developers - Volume 2.5 - September, 1994 (image scan), September 1994
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers - Volume 2.6 - Nov/Dec 1994 (image scan), November 1994
- Creative Digital Publishing Inc., Creative Digital Posts Handheld Systems Conference Final Agenda, March 17, 1997
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