That's very interesting--I think my (temporarily dead, I hope) Newton is
from the same batch--has the goo on the back and a tape mark across the
cover.
My sister is a drug rep for AstraZeneca, which is still very much in
existence--makes Seroquel, among other products. They recently provided
doctors with Palms loaded with medical software--perhaps those were
replacements for the Newts?
Scott
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 04:21 PM, John Goggan wrote:
>
>
> Jesse Garnier wrote:
>> Do we know where these Newts are coming from, before the resellers
>> get them, or what they were used for? Do we have any evidence that
>> they're coming from an homogenous environment or several different
>> sources? The discussions about the similar package configurations
>> got me thinking.
>>
>> I'd be really curious to know if, say, some Fortune 500 company just
>> switched from 15,000 Newtons to 15,000 iPaqs or some such.
>
> Well, all of those 32MB cards that I recently sold (i.e. the "NorthStar
> cards") were apparently originally used at a company called
> "AstraZeneca" (a
> pharmaceutical company?). I only know because one of the cards had
> someone's
> old AstraZeneca business card taped to the bottom of it. :)
>
> I assume that if they had all of these cards (it appears that,
> originally,
> there was at least 200 or so of them), they probably had a ton of
> Newtons to
> go with them. I don't know if all of the recent EBay Newton sellers
> got them
> from the same place or not. I don't know if AstraZeneca went under and
> had an
> auction or just sold them to one person that has resold them all over
> or what.
>
> All I know is that I bought all of the 32MB cards that I sold from one
> guy --
> and he sold them because he was tired of selling them one at a time and
> therefore decided to just dump most of the rest to me. I also know
> that he
> isn't really a Newton person, at least, I don't think so -- meaning
> that he
> wasn't selling other Newton parts before these. His emails to me
> implied that
> he just looks for closeouts and deals and then resells them on EBay and
> such
> afterwards. Meaning that he probably wasn't looking for Newton stuff
> when he
> came across some place that must have been selling all of AstraZeneca's
> cards.
>
> That's all I know.
>
> - John...
>
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