Too bad Steve Jobs didn't see the worth... The death of the Newton is
still my only gripe with Apple. I still get pissed when I think about
it.
On Saturday, November 10, 2001, at 06:10 AM, Jon Glass wrote:
>
> on 11/10/01 2:22 AM, James Elliott at rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Didn't the 120 only cost eight hundred-some when it came out? I
>> wouldn't
>> think that the 130 would have been too much more. And I doubt that it
>> is a
>> 110.
>
> Well, I'm betting he bought that thing years ago and with the
> specialized
> software. The fact he is still using it suggests to me that it is not a
> 110
> or 120, because of memory and heap problems. It is most likely a 130,
> and if
> he bought it new and with the software, you can bet that he easily paid
> the
> $1500 for it. The fact that he's still using it all these years later
> merely
> means to me that he's gotten his money's worth, and it has proved its
> worth.
> :-)
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> -Jon Glass
> Krakow, Poland
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