[NTLK] [ANN] New archive of NewtonOS icons

Grant Hutchinson grant at splorp.com
Mon Oct 12 13:59:44 EDT 2020


> I was unfamiliar with Marge Boots' name, but I see her thanked in
> the Newton User Interface Guidelines book
> (http://www.newted.org/download/manuals/Newton20UIGuide.pdf):
> 
>  "Special thanks to Marge Boots, Bob Ebert, and Garth Lewis."

Apparently, Marge Boots was Steve Capps’ wife. The more you know ...

https://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?index=12&gallery=1

> Back to Marge, Walter Smith wrote on Twitter (
> https://twitter.com/walter_smith/status/1281276352461705216?s=21):
> 
>  "Credit to Marge Boots who so cleverly and lovingly placed those pixels!"
> 
> He also posted pictures of her "caf and decaf Newts":
> 
>  https://twitter.com/walter_smith/status/1281285098910998528?s=21

Dang it. I completely forgot about this thread.

> She also apparently designed this Prince-like Newton logo for the "Quark"
> (MessagePad 130) project:
> 
> https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/apple-newton-messagepad-130-project-1830239104
> 
> (Somebody should archive those photos.)

Done.

g.





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