Re: [NTLK] An Invitation (reformatted)

From: Woody Smith <woodysmith_at_comcast.net>
Date: Mon Mar 24 2008 - 17:44:33 EDT

Thank You for the link and for getting this started. I look forward
to reading more.

Woody

On Mar 23, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Paul R.Potts wrote:

> (Sorry for the wonky line breaks; I hope this is more readable).
>
> Hello all,
>
> As the 10-year anniversary of the disbanding of the Newton project
> occurred, I was inspired to try to move forward with a project that
> has been on my mind since first reading "Defying Gravity" -- helping
> to get the true story of the Newton told.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to get insider stories -- the earliest engineers,
> the earliest contractors. From the Dylan days with big prototypes,
> through the Scully era, the launch, the revisions, the spin-out, the
> spin-in, and the final cancellation. The model I had in mind was Andy
> Hertzfeld's Folklore site at folklore.org: I like these stories
> because they are sufficiently technical to interest engineers, and
> sufficiently about people and events to be good human-interest
> stories.

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