[NTLK] Mirror of www.logictools.de | Wanted Nick Müller

[Forrest Buffenmyer]

Sylvain:

I recall those early days of the iPad (First Generation) here on NTLK. I think Grant would agree it was one of the busiest times in NTLK history. I recall there were many many messages A DAY about the iPad and how it was/wasn’t a worthy replacement for the Newton.

Mahalo,
Forrest

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> On Apr 23, 2021, at 3:02 PM, Sylvain Pilet <sylvain at pilet.net> wrote:
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> @Michael,
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> Thank you for sharing your memories with Nick. I think almost all Newton user groups have dried up over time and even more so since the arrival of iPads. I still remember, just before the iPad was announced, we all wanted to believe that the Newtons were coming back with a bang. But it was the iPad... without a stylus !
> From what you say, Nick seems to be a jack-of-all-trades who knows what he's doing. It's a shame we can't give him a shout out, I'm sure he would still bring a lot to our community, without having to develop software.
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> @Grant,
> You could update Nick Müller's entry in NewtonGlossary, with some of the information in Michael's story...
> And at the same time, update the Logic Tool links to the UNNA mirror… 
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> Sylvain Pilet
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>> Le 23 avr. 2021 à 22:30, Michael Homscheidt <Michael.Homscheidt at web.de> a écrit :
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>> Hello all,
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>> maybe I can shed some light on the story of Nick.
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>> At some time in the 1990s he founded a user group of Newton friends in Munich. The group was called „Unabhängige Newton User Group München“ (UNUGMUC) what could be translated to something like „Independant Newton User Group Munich“. I’m not sure what the „independant“ was, maybe independant from Apple Inc. The group met on a regular basis once a month.
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>> I joined this group in summer 2000. There were always some Newtons around but the main topic was now the Mac and the upcoming release of Mac OS X (Cheetah). Nick, as an official Apple develper, was able to show us the first beta releases of Cheetah. He did some development of software for Mac OS X. I can remember a really good calendar app. The first relases of Mac OS X did not include a calendar app. Unfortunately one of the next releases of Mac OS X, most probably Puma, included a calendar app and Nick saw no chance of selling his app. He said that there are too much young and avid programmers and he has no chance to sell his products. If I remember correctly he discarded software development by then.
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>> I’m not sure what he did then but he didn’t join the groups monthly meetings on a regular basis anymore. Sometimes he joined and talked about single board computers and embedded software. He was very interested in the Propeller chip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller). At about that time he came with a digital caliper with a digital readout that could be read by software and called this YADRO (Yet Another Digital ReadOut). You can find an entry in a newsgroup here (in German): https://de.rec.modelle.misc.narkive.com/RD39JNrB/digital-anzeige-im-selbstbau-oder-the-yadro-files <https://de.rec.modelle.misc.narkive.com/RD39JNrB/digital-anzeige-im-selbstbau-oder-the-yadro-files> . This entry is 15 years old. 
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>> After that I haven’t seen Nick for some time. I met him by chance on an hobby exhibition (exhibition for steam model railways in Sinsheim, Germany) were he presented a working model of a ship (?) motor driven by pressurized air (this was in January 2005, I have a picture of him and his model). The internet site http://www.motor-manufaktur.de/ <http://www.motor-manufaktur.de/> belonged to him. I found a first snapshot of it under https://web.archive.org/web/20060212143802/http://www.motor-manufaktur.de/ <https://web.archive.org/web/20060212143802/http://www.motor-manufaktur.de/> This snapshot was done in 2006 and fits to that 15 years old entry in the newsgroup. The last snapshot of that website is from 2013 (https://web.archive.org/web/20131126200316/http://motor-manufaktur.de/index.html).
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>> After 2007 the interest in the User Group declined. I can remember that we discussed and examined the first iPhone / iPod touch (2007). Afterwards the meetings were not on a regular basis anymore and stopped completly. That was maybe in 2008 or 2009.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Michael
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