From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 08:09:08 PDT
On Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at 05:31 AM, Johan Stiernspetz wrote:
> From: "Johan Stiernspetz" <stiernspetz_at_swipnet.se>
> Date: Wed Jun 20, 2001 05:31:56 AM US/Eastern
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: [NTLK] Question for Action Names for Newton
> Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have been a proud owner of a new Newton 130 I bought some months
> ago. I
> have been "listening" on this list since I bought the Newt, but now I
> have a
> question.
>
> Being a Palm user before I have always used Action Names Datebook as a
> replacment for the built in datebook.
> I contacted Iambic, the maker of the software, but they have completely
> stopped making Action Names for Newton, and didn't have any old licenses
> around.
>
> I found the software for sale at Ebay, and I got the seller originally
> not
> shipping to Europe to finally agree on sending it to me if I won the
> bid.
> I did ($5, wasn't it a bargain?), but the seller not being an Apple man
> have
> had problems copying the software from the floppies into mac format,
> getting
> it ready for the web and all. I haven't payed yet, and I don't get any
> replies on my mails anymore.
>
> Does anybody else here at the Newton community have Action Names for
> Newton?
> I'm ready to pay for the software so everything is legal and all that.
>
> Thanks a lot, it's good there is a bunch of dedicated Newton users
> around.
>
> But please people, don't throw so much negative words at Palm!
> Using the right softwares for your needs (and there are thousands of
> them)
> can make Palm a very powerful tool.
> I have been a dedicated Palm user since 4 years, and I have downloaded
> Graffiti in my Newton. Being from Sweden I use some letters with rings
> and
> dots over them, and there hasn't been a chance learning my Newton that.
> I'm faster on Graffiti than ordinary hand writing, and it have never
> let me
> down.
>
> But, being a Mac-man, I simply had to have a Newton.
>
> And now, changing to my Palm IIIxe from time to time for softwares not
> available for my Newt, I feel the Palm screen is SOOO tiny.
> I use my 130 80% of the PDA time now...
>
> Okey, that was a lot of words from me.
> Take care all, the summer finally arrived here in Northern Sweden!
Joz,
I didn't know you got the floppies with the .exe files on them. If you
have a Mac, you should be able to access the content of those floppies.
If it may help you, send me those .exe files over email and I will
extract the Newton packages from them and return those to you.
-Laurent.
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