Back in July, Dan Benjamin and John Gruber mentioned the Newton (and alluded to yours truly) at the tail end of the third episode of their podcast, The Talk Show. You can listen the original snippet of audio here. One of the stipulations of “appearing” on the show was an informal agreement to provide Dan with a specific technological point of reference. In other words, an actual, functioning Newton device which he could compare and contrast with an iPhone. The easy part was agreeing to the transaction. The tough part was the interpretation of that darn word “functioning”.
After several weeks of diddling with software, reconditioning battery packs, installing drivers and finally getting a creaky 3Com EtherLink card to talk to my Mac – it’s done. Dan’s Newton MessagePad 2100 is packaged and ready for shipment, along with all of the necessary accoutrements worthy of a personal digital assistant.
Yo Dan ... what you see is what you’re getting.
View a full-size image in my Flickr account.
hyph-n says:
I listened to that podcast too; i would be interested to know what software you included on the Newton (as a fellow green owner)
Grant Hutchinson says:
The Newton was “brain wiped” to factory settings. The only extra bits I installed were the Newton Internet Enabler packages, ethernet drivers specific to the 3com card I included as part of the deal, and the Heaven or Hell utility for -10061 error management.
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