[NTLK] NewtonOS Preservation – Seeking Input

Grant Hutchinson splorp at mac.com
Mon Sep 8 10:35:38 PDT 2025


> On Sep 8, 2025, at 3:16 AM, Larry Yaeger <larry.yaeger at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> My idea is to contact the Computer History Museum which is a well renown entity in the U.S., and ask them if they would be willing to ask Apple for the NewtonOS source code. It seems much more promising to go through them, instead of me calling someone at Apple.
>> 
>> My question is, does anyone on this list know Al Kossow or anyone else at the CHM personally?
> 
> It's been years since we were in touch, but I know Al, and have a personal email address that I suspect will still be good.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I'm on board when you're ready to make a pitch.

Matthias, I’m excited about this plan and happy to support the pitch in whatever way I can.

And Larry ... thank you for sticking around all this time and still wanting to be part of the shenanigans.

g.

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