I never got to actually touch a Newton, no. I'd seen a demonstration of how some bit of its coding snuck into OS X, but actually missed the name Inkwell and couldn't figure where to find that.

My handwriting hasn't changed all that much, except for getting a bit more legible and quicker since I started trying to adopt ham radio-style quicker moves for writing block capitals. That's based on writing letters with less movement so you can keep up with the fastest Morse code speed you can decipher, which in my case isn't that fast.