Re: [NTLK] [WTB] Want To Buy a "Clear" Newton

From: Grant Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 20:01:15 PDT


In a previous message, Andrei Chichak typed vigorously:

>>These were prototypes, presumably to work out glitches in the fitting=20
>>of everything.
>
>Noooooo. The clear 110s were sold at the WWDC in 1994. They made a couple
>of hundred for sale.

Totally true. I have a clear case MP110 including the receipt from when
the original owner purchased it at the WWDC.

>Here's a teaser though. One guy got one that had a fault, the boot-time
>memory tester figured out that it had 16MB of on-board memory, even though
>it had 1MB of chips.

Ooh, now I have to fire that puppy up again and see if I win a prize!

g.

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