Question for you 'big iron' collectors

And to give a real recent example, we may look at the Apple Newton. A bit more than a year ago, the 2000 was mega hyper super top notch technology, then Apple decided (or better the dammed Jobs) that there is no place for a device like that. Within moments a lot of people where refering to the Newton as a dead old outdated thig ... just, where is the new, better device ? and even more, did all Newtons suddenly stop working just because of the decision to stop production ? I still love my Newt, and it is still the way most cool and powerfull (handheld) device around ... and all I can hope is that the rest may catch up within the next five years, so I can switch if my unit will show first signs of death... Just signs are prety bad that there will come anything close to the Newt within this timeframe. And the same is true for a lot of other old stuff. There is still no better Desktop system than the Xerox (remember the Copy/Move/Property keys ?) and there's still no better way to play Wizardry than on an A][ (no emulator includes the tactile pleasure of a Disk ][ drive calibrating and loading your characters :). Ok, skip the A][ part, thats personal history, but the Xerox desktop is still a real good example of a technological forerunner who has never been catched up by all the later stuff - likewise I assume the same for the Newt. And one can find examples all over - shure, there are not a lot (if we ignore the personal history stuff), but there a enough in every class where the original thing is still superior. A /370 still rules the landscape in every way, just since a small unix can do the same numer of whatever computation score, they are still like rats compared to a tiger ... Anyway Gruss H. -- Der Kopf ist auch nur ein Auswuchs wie der kleine Zeh. H.Achternbusch