[NTLK] My new serial cable

[Jon Glass]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Lord Groundhog <LordGroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:
> To me all that means is that "high tech and advanced" with regard to the
> Newton is about things like design and functionality, rather than raw
> processing performance.
>
It's worth remembering that in the days of the Newton, 40 meg hard
drives were the norm, and a 4 meg memory card was considered huge.
Granted, but 1997, things had changed somewhat, but still, it was a
far cry from today's standards. I used to sync my Newton in a matter
of minutes (when it was 1.3, and NCK). Trying to download 10 meg of
books is a huge task for any computer of this vintage. I remember
copying my 40 meg of data from one hard drive to another via SCSI, and
it took hours, IIRC.


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 -Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
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