[NTLK] So what is a accelerated eMate like?

[Grant Hutchinson]

Did anyone else on the list *not* receive Greg’s original post? (Excerpted below.)

I received the replies to Greg’s original post, but not the original itself. Neither my primary email or a secondary email (used for monitoring the performance of the list and hopefully catching issue like this) received the initial post. Both of these addresses are Gmail-based.

The post is recorded in the digest, as well both the static and MARC archives.

http://lists.newtontalk.net/pipermail/newtontalk/2026-February/003689.html

https://marc.info/?l=newtontalk&m=177153303014400&w=2

What the heck is going on? Is this a Gmail-related glitch or something wider spread?

g.


> On February 19, 2026 8:44:43 PM GMT+01:00, Greg Goodwin <doctorclu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Written from my eMate: So what is a accelerated eMate like?
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> In the Newton world I started with a Newton 110, then a 2000.  The eMate on first glance and description reminded me of the scaled down laptops that were being sent to kids in technically sparce parts of the world.
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> The eMate, looking at it as a Newton 2000 user thought the eMate had the most recent operating system.  And the eMate memory could be upgraded to the memory size of a Newton 2000.  The eMate could even play the programs of a Newton 2000 for the most part, but slower.  Around 2002 I found some eMates in a flea market, and I bought three for $5-$10 USD a piece.  I used one for a bit to take notes till the spring popped the cable.  Twenty years later I would fix that one, and the other I went ahead and did the spring fix.  That one was fine.  And then they sat twenty years as I mostly used the Newton 2000 for the occassional Newton projects like setting up a NPDS (website from a Newton).  Many times I thought about purging the Newton equipment but in picking up and purging things the Newtons gave me a happy vibe so they were kept.
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