[NTLK] Love Notes to Newton

Tue Jul 24 21:01:58 EDT 2018

I stayed up late last night and watched it. 

It’s just so beautiful and well executed and detailed - yet concise...I was transfixed.  It’s a lovely combination of history and our shared/unshared common experience, as seen by everyone from the creators to the users to the people who are still carrying on today.

It made me smile and laugh and even shed a tear or two.

Nice to see and hear the list people and others after all these years of only reading their words. 

Bought my first one - a 120 - during the time just after cancellation when some folks were dumping them fast. Kept going and acquiring until I got a 2100, and used that until iPhone arrived. 

My newton stuff is now in a few boxes, mostly out in the garage and unused, and I’ve made a few halfhearted efforts to send it off to a more active user...yet I don’t unsubscribe to this list and I still hang on to it all.  I just can’t abandon newton, just like you. The film helped a lot to understand or at least acknowledge that. 

One of the Newtons has the sounds of my daughter’s birth, including her first breath of air and crying, recorded on it in the delivery room. 

Didn’t want it to end, sitting watching the credits roll... and then!  My name shows up in huge list of the poutine messages that scrolls at the end, I’m proud to say, and I’m privileged to be able to say that I took my family to Montreal years ago to sample that fine dish properly.

Thanks so much Noah, and everyone else who made it possible. Thanks so much!

Sent from my iPhone

-- Peter
pjfraser at mac.com

> On Jul 24, 2018, at 5:20 PM, Sylvain Pilet <sylvain at pilet.net> wrote:
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> @Noah
> I'm at the third viewing of the documentary. The more I look at it and the more I appreciate it. You really did a lot of work on this documentary. All of Newton's fans will never be able to thank you enough. Especially when you know that you did that with very little money. Yet the result is beautiful. Admittedly, there will be criticisms (which can be good), it's normal, we can never satisfy 100% of people. The only criticism I could do is against me! I'm sorry I was not able to free up more time for the movie. I would have liked to do much more, and share more my passion of Newton with all, I was unfortunately too busy, when you went to France.
> One question, I remembered that you said you had more than 4 hours of video in total. Do you intend to release an extension to the documentary, and if so, when do you think you'll have time to do it?
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> @All subscribers to NentonTalk list
> I think we can all make a standing ovation for Noah (numerically and on this list would be in my opinion a minimum). Thanks to Noah, the Newton lives again more! And those who use them will no longer be strange beasts that people are afraid to approach! In the end, Noah's film proves that the Newton’s Boys and Girls are kind-hearted people, with an almost divine goodness, and an exemplary desire to share. The crazy thing about this story is that all of you (the owners of Newton, you have (or had) in your hands, an object that almost changed the course of time. He, IF only this February 27 1998 (the 27th February is my birthday, I will not forget!) had been different, and instead of stopping the Newton family, Steve had extended the Newton family...
> But as we say here in France, with IF, we could put Paris in bottle! (Avec des si on mettrait Paris en bouteille).
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> @Florian
> That made me smile, when I read, that I looked like what you thought about what I was :-)
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>> Le 24 juil. 2018 à 20:44, Eckhart Köppen <eck at 40hz.org> a écrit :
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>> Couldn't agree more. A wonderful movie, well done Noah!
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>> Eckhart 
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>>> On 24 Jul 2018, at 20.48, Florian Voigt <florian.voigt at me.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
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>>> I just finished the film and I must say it really was worth the wait. Everyone involved did a really great job. It was a fun tour through the life and afterlife of my little green friend. Also, it was great to finally put some faces to some of the names I’ve seen on this list. Interestingly, most of you looked different than I pictured you in my mind. Except for Steve Weyer and Sylvain Pilet. Those two were pretty much how I pictured them - that‘s strange because, I‘m sure I‘ve never seen a picture of them both.
>>> 
>>> The movie gave me a great „outside perspective“ to the Newton world back then. I was sixteen, living in Germany when all this happened so I didn‘t really got to know that much about it. Of course, the „Mac Magazin“ wrote about Newton stuff too, occasionally. But still, it’s different probably than being older and living in the us back then. Still, I loved (and still love) my Newton. I got a used Message Pad 120 back then. I instantly used it to replace all my school folders and took all my notes with it. I held presentations using it. And played Newthack while doing so because my teacher would ramble on endlessly about some historic detail. It really was living the future. I totally agree that there hasn‘t been a device like the Newton until today. Even more so with the 2100 (wich I only ever used way later like 2013 or so).
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>>> I‘m gonna watch it again right now.
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>>> Great job, Noah!
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>>> All the best,
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>>> Florian
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