[NTLK] Why a Newton Never Forgets

J.M. Heinrichs minicapt1 at mac.com
Sun Jan 30 17:49:31 EST 2011


And it's power requirements? Peanuts a day.

Cheers
J.M. Heinrichs
 minicapt1 at mac.com

On 30 Jan 11, at 14:44, Lord Groundhog wrote:

> ~~~ On 2011/01/30 18:05, Doug Parker at ispinn at gmail.com wrote ~~~
> 
>> Because Apple secretly modeled it after a large elephant.
>> 
> 
> This isn't quite accurate Doug.  Each Newton actually has a very highly
> compressed live elephant inside it, hidden in a tiny living space in a
> special area of ROM.  It's known among the Newton development team as "the
> elephant in the Living ROM".
> 
> 
> 
> Shalom. 
> Christian 
> 
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