From: Ikem Nzeribe (zen18723_at_zen.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 15:53:21 PST
Hi Anil,
I have a common story, I guess. I rocked a brand-new colour Palm, fresh
from the plant, when I walked into my local Mac dealer one day. I saw
him twirling an old-school PDA. "It's a Newton," he said. A 130. When
he demoed the handwriting recognition, my eyeballs nearly popped out of
my skull!
"What, they can *do* that..?" I thought it must be some kind of
future-technology, and when I was told it was old, I could hardly
beleive it. This is from a guy who bent his own writing out of shape by
using Graffitti. So I bought it as a toy. And after a while, I began
using my very expensive Palm less... and less. And then I sold my
"cutting-edge" Palm, which had been practically relegated to junk
status.
I'm a 2100 user now. I own, maybe 7 Newtons: a 2000, & 5 130s. I use it
for practically everything, although I have suffered sycing woes since
ditching OS 9, so I gotta do the Keyspan-serial thing, since I know
there are ethernet issues with Panther/Newton.
I wanna rock a Bluetooth/Blunt Newton, and run IRC/IM/Web whilst in
transit. *This* is handheld computing. If y'all haven't embraced the
Blunt concept & how it extends the Newton, y'all better get on board
;-)
Ikem.
On 11 Mar 2004, at 20:02, Anil wrote:
> Hi Ikem, and welcome. I am a Newbie too, only 4 months since my first
> touch.
>
> What you packing? A 2100? 2000, 130? Please do tell, I would be
> interested to know what drew you to the Newton and what you are using
> yours for?
>
> Kindest regards
>
> Anil K Solanki
> United Kingdom, MP 2100
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2004, at 19:03, Ikem Nzeribe wrote:
>
>> I have ghosted you all in silence for a very good while, and have just
>> joined up with you Good Green people. Just wanted to say "hi!", and to
>> expect my contribution. I think what you have done in extending the
>> platform beyond the scope of it's original creators is amazing.
>>
>> Ikem.
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
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