Re: [NTLK] Just Asking.. I have a unique Clear 110

I was thinking something along the lines of the clear 110s. But
thinking about it some more, likely they'd know it. They are, after
all, experts. :-p But maybe that 16MB story could be turned into a
question.

~ian

On Sep 25, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Andrei Chichak wrote:

> Steal which part, the 110 coming out at WWDC '94 or Kent Beck
> teaching NewtonScript?
>
> As we were sitting in the audience at WWDC '94, one of the more
> boisterous (okay mouthy) Newtonians that picked up a clear 110
> noticed that his Newt said that it had 16Megabytes of memory. The DTS
> guys scrambled about checking part numbers on the memory and quickly
> offered him a new one since his was defective and probably just had a
> short on the memory bus. His response was "NO WAY! I'm keeping this
> one!".
>
> A
>
>
> At 09:54 PM 9/23/2007, you wrote:
>> I think I might have to steal that bit of trivia for Stump at WWDC 08
>> (if I make it, and its OK, that is)
>>
>> ~ian (who got a shirt at Stump this year for answering a question
>> related to handing out of wooden newts)
>>
>>> Hmmm, the clear case 110s were sold at the WWDC in 1994. I have a
>>> picture that was taken the next week at the Newton programming
>>> course
>>> at Apple campus. In the class picture there is me and my clear 110
>>> and the teacher Kent Beck of Extreme Programming fame.
>
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