Newton among "Biggest Cults in Tech"

It became a part of you. You began to identify with it, even develop a belief system around it. You may have attended regular meetings of others similarly afflicted, and openly despised members of other groups. Before you were even aware of it, you'd joined a cult.

I wish someone would make a Newton emulator for the iPhone. It would be so cool

I was very sad when my Newton went to gadget heaven. When everyone would pull out their Palm Pilots in a meeting I was proud of my big bulky device.

Now I have to settle for the Newton sound set in Entourage to satisfy my nostalgia.

Newton's big screen role was in Under Siege 2 in 1995. You can see the scene on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaaMct-nF0o

To me the newton was the prototype for the iphone. Still have mine but since getting iphone and jail breaking it don't use newton much anymore.

I was a late adopter (very beginning of 2001) and love the platform - but I've just had less and less luck getting things working with my current setup. It's a damn shame - I LOVE my eMate, and I still enjoy the feel of both the 130 and the 2100. But it got harder and harder to integrate it into my daily flow compared to a cheapie PalmOS device. (And the Tapwave Zodiac community is only a few degrees less fanatical than the Newton community - they're pretty devoted. For a PalmOS device, it was a pretty okay fake 2100...)

But, yeah - I've got an iPhone now, and it does a fair bit of what I used the Newt for, and with OS 3 it'll get even closer. But there's no way I'm getting rid of these old things.

Oh, I love the Newton. Actually I never had one, but I inherited a few eMates. I used one for years as a great word processor. Even in 2004, using it in public people would come up to me and ask me what it was and where to get one. I gave a few to friends, I sold a couple on eBay, and I have 2 left.

I'm keeping one, but I want to give the other one away to a good home. The battery holds a 2 hour charge (according to my notes circa 2003), but if needed, replacements are available online cheap and are very easy to install. It comes with the manual, literature, cables, and CD in the original box. I can throw in a CD of extra software. MISSING the power cable and stylus, but if you're into it, you can find these easily through NUGs (Newton User Groups)

I'd love to offer this to the first post to respond, but I want this baby to have a nice home. So reply with something that convinces me and it's yours, for free (minus shipping of course).

Cheers

If only it could use regular CF cards...

My Newton was an unfortunate casualty of my foot - and now has a cracked screen. It was a lot of fun while it lasted. Any AOL folks still around? We used to have a great following on Monday nights in the PDA forum... ahh... those were the days.

My Newton was an unfortunate casualty to my iPhone. It now sits on my bookshelf. It was an awesome piece of tech. So far ahead of it's time.