30 Aug
2023
30 Aug
'23
2:51 a.m.
Haha, I was just poking at my old BB too. I miss that thing, it was pretty nice when
hooked up to a BES. The iPhone has been the only device I ever liked better, and even
then not every aspect. With RIM all but defunct I’d love to see the BB OS source be
released some day too. Of course it’d be most interesting combined with its supporting
ecosystem software like BES and whatever they ran on the RIM side.
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On Aug 29, 2023, at 7:01 PM, Wayne S via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Finishing up
The BB and Palm and Treo were faster and far more usable that the Newton.
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> On Aug 29, 2023, at 18:59, Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I used a newton and still have it a box. It was heavy and very slow. Graffiti didn’t
work very well either. Microsoft came put with their first notepad running Win/NT a few
years after that but it was slow too. I think Newton was just ahead of it’s time. The
cpu’s needed to run it efficiently had not been invented yet.
> The Treo and the Blackberry
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>>>> On Aug 29, 2023, at 18:46, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>> On 8/29/23 7:28 PM, David Arnold wrote:
>>>> Some of you might recall that Apple released a series of machines based
on the Newton OS in the early 1990s.
>>
>> ACK
>>
>> How do Palm Pilot's compare to the Newton?
>>
>> I had someone I respect and trust make a lot of comparisons between a Palm T3 (?)
I used to carry and Newtons. He was even opening programs in a some sort of editor and
comparing things. I distinctly remember him saying that he thought there was some
relationship between the Newton and Palm. But I've never seen nor heard anything to
corroborate this.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Grant. . . .
>> unix || die