[NTLK] Apple Newton at the Museum Of Failure

Grant Hutchinson splorp at mac.com
Fri Jan 19 14:39:15 PST 2024


>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 9:47 AM Alexander Shendi wrote:
>> 
>> Apple Newton at the Museum Of Failure:
> 
> On Jan 19, 2024, at 12:41 PM, Michael Sheflin <sheflinm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I saw this there a few months ago, but I'm pretty sure the display model
> was a 120 or 130.  (I snapped a pic of the Minitel but not the Newton.)
> But it wasn't an OMP.

Sigh.

It didn’t fail. It was deliberately killed.

If the Newton had truly “failed”, we certainly would not be still talking about it decades later.

g.

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