From: matt (mkaake_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 23 2004 - 07:32:19 PDT
I picked up a second newton for free in a similar manner. The second
day I had my Newt (which was only about 3 weeks ago), I took it to
work with me to see how well it would integrate into my daily
workflow. A co-worker was walking past my desk when he saw my newton.
He got excited, and continued to tell me that he used to have a
newton, but he hadn't touched it in about 5 years. He then asked if I
would want to pick it up for free, because he would rather see someone
who would use it, than see it sit in a desk.
Not a bad deal. An absolutely mint MP130 (no scratches anywhere, and a
backlight bright enough to reflect off of a person's face in the
daylight), along with some software he had bought for it, as well as a
4 meg flash card, serial cable, and the original disks containing NCU
for windows.
Needless to say, I was pleased. So was my wife, who became an avid
Newt user (on the 130) overnight. Everywhere we go, people ask about
our Newtons, and my wife's friends are always telling her that she's
so 'up to date with technology'.
Ahh, I love my Newt...
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:13:42 -0400, Sonny Hung <sonnyhung_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:56:10 -0700 (PDT), Ed Kummel <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > saying that "this always happens when he starts to
> > show off his Newton"...
>
> Yes, that was a good story!
> I've got to say that it's very neat when you also meet people you deal
> with who know about the Newton or had one.
>
> I walked into my daughter's pediatrician and were going to see him
> because my daughter was recovering over a cold and needed to be check
> up on before she begins attending Day Care/Nursery School... Well
> there we are in the room waiting for the doctor to arrive. I'm
> updating the meeting with additional notes when my wife begins telling
> me to put away the Newton because the doctor is going be there soon.
> No sooner he arrives and comments, 'Is that a Newton? I haven't seen
> one since my MP100'. Unfortunately he doesn't have one any longer
> because the screen got cracked and he threw it away... what a shame...
>
> But there must be loads of people you bump into that actually might
> have had one before...this wasn't my first incident nor will it likely
> be my last...
>
> PS: Out there in Italy there is a gentleman I had to say 'No' to a
> couple of years back who wanted my MP2000u - he was the son of the
> owner of one of the Murano Glass Factories...this was around 1999
> maybe June...I hope that he did not give up his search for a Newton...
> (He offered me a Murano Glass piece worth somewhere around $2000-$3000
> USD, but at the time I could not afford to let go of my precious
> Newton.
>
>
> --
> God bless,
>
> Sonny Hung
> the Hung Family
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