From: Len Cole (leonard.cole_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2003 - 15:04:27 PST
For what it's worth:
Apple's Service Parts Database (assembled around 1 May 2001), list 89 products as being "obsolete". There are many more listed as "vintage" including the MessagePad, the MP100, MP 110, MP120 and MP130.
The eMate 300 and the MP 2x00 Newtons are listed as current products.
I don't have access to a later version of this document, but I'm sure that more products have been added to the "vintage" list and products which were formerly "vintage" have been moved to the "obsolete" list.
I don't know how complete this list is supposed to be, because there are some notable omissions. No software is listed, and such products as the Lisa, Lisa II, Mac/XL, Apple ///, and several early printing products are also absent from the list.
On November 02 2003, Brian Pearce <bpearce_at_cloud9.net> wrote:
>> Sorry. The temptation's too great...
>>
>> Simply because someone somewhere is using a quill pen doesn't make the
>> quill pen not obsolete.
>
>True, but I'm not convinced the fact that Apple is not actively
>developing the Newton OS or associated hardware would make it obsolete
>(legally speaking), either. It's still a part of the company's
>intellectual property portfolio.
>
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