[NTLK] Newton leather holster (April Fool's joke)

[Morgan Aldridge]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 00:45 Christian Burk <omahane at gmail.com> wrote:

Someone had a good time designing this and taking the pictures, no doubt,
> but, as so often an April Fool's joke does, it does make me kind of want
> one:
>
> https://www.sfbags.com/products/ranger-case-for-newton


100% an April Fool's joke I can get behind!

In fact -- no joke! -- I _still_ use a WaterField Design's inMotion iPod
Speaker Case bag for my MessagePad 2100. Sadly, it rarely leaves my office
these days, but it's still the perfect bag for me and my Newton:

<
https://web.archive.org/web/20051026044543/http://www.sfbags.com/products/inmotion/inmotion.htm
>

Here's the review I posted here twenty years ago:

<https://newtontalk.net/archive/newtontalk/2005-October/0881.html>

Wait, that can't be right. Twenty years ago? TWENTY?! Excuse me while I go
chastise the old man in the mirror for letting my MessagePad gather dust on
a back corner of my desk, it's backlight fading and rubberized coating
becoming ever stickier.

With all seriousness, I really miss my little green sidekick. And, I
chastise that poor, fragile, old man too much. I think getting them back
together would do them both some good.

Morgan

> <https://www.sfbags.com/products/ranger-case-for-newton>