[NTLK] NewtonOS Preservation – Seeking Input

[David Arnold]

If we put together a concrete proposal, it might be possible to get some other former Newton group personnel to endorse it too?

Several of them participated in the Love Notes film, for instance.

I don’t know if that would help, of course, but it probably wouldn’t hurt?



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> On 9 Sep 2025, at 03:35, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> My question is, does anyone on this list know Al Kossow or anyone else at the CHM personally?
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>> 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.
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>> I'm on board when you're ready to make a pitch.
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> Matthias, I’m excited about this plan and happy to support the pitch in whatever way I can.
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> And Larry ... thank you for sticking around all this time and still wanting to be part of the shenanigans.
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> g.
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