Man, what are you smoking these days? :)
Kenneth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Filmer, Paul E" <pfilmer@nsf.gov>
To: "'Newtontalk'" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 12:10 AM
Subject: NTLK Top o' the Newton day to you
> A bit of blarney...
>
> Yeah, the fashion now is for implantable nano-PDA's, but carrying around
> some hybrid DNA subcutaneously gives me the willies. I have stuck to my
> faithful Newton - a clear case MP2100 with a steel door hinge and titanium
> clips on the back.
>
> When Apple's Microsoft division finally released the code for the NewtonOS
> back in '08, there was a big rush back to the market, and I dug out my old
> companion from between the unused rainbow-toe socks in the bottom drawer.
> By that time, Guyot's Patches 715014, 735014 and 745014 were finally
> recognized by Apple as legit works of genius, getting rid of the -10061
that
> had hobbled Newt for so long. One bothersome item was still alt.rec
> v0.999999d9, which couldn't handle my Farsi scrawl.
>
> The white backlight is still fairly bright (although I still miss the dim
> old green), and people still coo over my baby in her resurrected Siemens
> cradle. It blows them away when I can play ultra-mini DVD using the old
pen
> holder, and store several discs on the multi Gig card.
>
> I was glad Radu had the foresight to preserve the entire Newton Webring,
> although of course it's all available now through any of the local Oz
> hypermarket channels.
>
> I enjoy my legacy systems, although I think some people laugh gently at me
> in my pokey Nokia car. I'm just not enough of a throwback to even dare
show
> a Palm.
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