[NTLK] Wired article

[Jeff Sheldon]

I just looked at Walter's collection online--but haven't seen Frank's shed.  At one point I was hemorrhaging Newton 2000s to the point of giving them as gifts to friends. Of everything I bought since 1994, my favorite is the complete array of Newton developers manuals.  

The big disappointment is that I could never get the Voyager Chipset manual. I had been in contact with an engineer at Cirrus Logic and that dead-ended. And the printing company only had the manual left on tape backup, but the machine was no longer operating in a way they could easily restore the print.  I finally resorted to stripping away the chip casings and took some photos with a microscope, for fun, but had always hoped to reconfigure the 2x00 footprint by designing a custom PCB and would have liked to have had those specs. 


-Jeff

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 19:05, NewtonTalk <newtontalk at pda-soft.de> wrote:
> 
> https://www.wired.com/2013/08/the-newton-lives/
> 
> Thanks for this link. I wasn't aware of this article. There's but one thing
> that might be subject to discussion:
> 
>> Outside of Grant Hutchinson's massive Newton collection, the most notable
> stash belongs to former Apple man Walter Smith.
> 
> Whoever wrote this can't possibly have seen my shed's upper floor...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Frank
> 
> -- Newton software and hardware at http://www.pda-soft.de
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