[NTLK] Hi from an old developer

From: Pete Yandell (pete_at_yandell.com)
Date: Sun Jul 25 2004 - 19:39:08 PDT


Hello all.

I just subscribed to the list, and thought I should introduce myself. I
used to work for a little company down here in Australia who did Newton
development way back in the early days. In fact, we released the first
third-party Newton software ever, which was an Australian language
dictionary. It added Australian words and spellings to the handwriting
recognition dictionaries in the early Newtons.

The bit of software that I wrote that people might remember is eNotes,
which was an e-mail client. We had two versions: 1.6 for the older
Newtons, which talked to a UNIX terminal over the serial port and
telneted into POP3 and SMTP ports to handle mail; and 2.0 for later
Newtons which used the TCP stack to do POP3 and SMTP directly. We never
got 2.0 working that well unfortunately, because the TCP stack was
never terribly stable, and memory was an issue.

So are there any other developers from the early days floating around
here? I have fond memories of the first Newton developers conference
and all the weird and wonderful people that it attracted.

Pete Yandell

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