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   "Andre Jute"  wrote in message   
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   > (1) Thanks to the faithless ingrate (to Steve'n'Steve, the WYSIWYG   
   > Guys) who with his recent unprovoked sideswipe at the Newton reminded   
   > me I still have one. For those of you too young to remember it, the   
   > Newton is the granddaddy of all personal digital assistants, and in   
   > some respects still superior to and more attractive then the current   
   > crop. It harks back to the days of 300bps modems (I have one of those   
   > too!) yet its technology has only now matured in Apple's iPad.   
      
   :) I almost found a use for mine to carry electronic versions of the   
   Nautical Almanac and fudge the spherical trig, but by then Clinton had   
   banished selective availability and the GPS market had taken off in a big   
   way. The biggest difficulty was programming the thing to do even the   
   simplest task. It took literally just a few evenings to punch Meeus's   
   coefficients into a HP handheld calculator, giving it a perpetual ephemeris   
   of navigation stars and bodies, while I was still struggling in that same   
   time to simply get the Apple's development tools installed and running. It   
   was, as I said, one of the snickiest gadgets of all time, but still looking   
   for relevance. I haven't given up on it altogether even today. I might still   
   build a shrine for it to honor Apple's perspicuity of future technology.   
      
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