[NTLK] Andrés Galluzzi’s mysterious Newton Backup Viewer

[Dan]

Yes I remember it well.  I never got a copy though because it was locked to ONE Newton.  If that one failed, then you had to buy another license.  I didn't mind buying one, but being it was locked to ONE Newton and he might disappear and I wouldn't be able to get it to work with another Newton when I need to, I never took the plunge.

I never heard anything bad about it but I don't think many people used/purchased it for the same reasons I had.

-Dan

On 5/19/2026 6:32 PM, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk wrote:
> Several years ago, a fellow named Andrés Galluzzi released a Windows application called Newton Connection Tools [1]. It was an updated take on Apple’s NCU and other Windows-centric Newton utilities for backing up and restoring data, managing package installation, and so on.
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> At one point, he was apparently donating proceeds from the registration of his software to UNNA. [2]
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> One additional feature of this software was something called Newton Backup Viewer.
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> NewtonTalk member Michael Schaefer (who I believe still gets the list digest) wrote briefly about the Newton Backup Viewer in his review of NCT back in 2008 [3], but it doesn’t mention much other than you could view contacts saved in a backup file.
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> Does anyone else have experience with the Backup Viewer? Did it do anything else?
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> Can anyone provide a screenshot of it in action?
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> (An upcoming addition to the Newton Glossary is curious ...)
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> Thanks!
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> g.
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