Re: [NTLK] Stories on Newton data longevity / backup

Jon Glass wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, David Lawrence<newtonpoetry@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd love to have a few stories of Newton users with similar experiences for
>> the blog. Have you had one of those "data's still there!" moments? What
>> makes the Newton's data so robust? Do you have any Newton data backup
>> strategies you'd like to share?
>>
> This just happened to me Thursday! I found my Newton had come
> unplugged and the battery dead, so I plugged it back in, and when it
> booted, thought I would see how old the oldest note in my Notepad was
> ('99 for those curious). I have older notes than that on my Mac, but
> apparently, when I got a new Newton in '99, I either didn't restore my
> backed-up notes, or deleted older ones.... But anyway, I started
> flipping forward, and about 3 notes in, I found notes to a sermon I
> wrote back in '99. I used to write sermon outlines as they came to me,
> and sometimes, I never got around to preaching them. This was one of
> those sermons. For me, it was a great find, because I've been asked to
> guest-preach for a friend next month, and this sermon will make an
> excellent sermon for that. Now I just need to find a way to get the
> outline out--because I'm too lazy to re-write from the Newton. ;-)
>
>

Ah, The Word according to Newton!

-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is 
... oh, never mind."
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