Re: Autoserver: Tweet from @bryanstearns
Clu <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:28:45 -0500
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Hey Bryan, been a Mac user since 1989 (give or take two years) and the Newton era was my favorite time hands down. So what was the Autoserver? -Doctor Clu > On Jul 19, 2019, at 9:07 AM, Marco Mailand <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Bryan, > > It's nice to read something from a former Apple employee. Despite I don't > know what the purpose of an "Autoserver" is I'm often questioning, what is > going on with the current PDA devices. I will doubtlessly not go back to > the Newton - simply because of its size - but it already had so may good > features which are missing today. I wonder why? Why does nobody program > Newton style notes with hierachic checklists and this excellent handwriting > capability? Where is cliphoard?? Where is MoreInfo with its cross-linking > features between the standard PDA apps? Are they gone, because the concept > of Soups to store data has been vanished? > > In this context: The Newton and its ideas where ahead of time and therefore > it will never die. > -- > best regards and have a nice weekend, > > Marco Mailand > > Switzerland > > [email protected] > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 08:33, sirizaac <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bryan Stearns ‽ @bryanstearns >> Here’s a story that I’ve been thinking a lot about this week: My last role >> at Apple, from 92-96, was doing builds-and-tools stuff in the Newton >> project - I built a thing called the "Autoserver" that was really 30-odd >> Quadra 950s (1/13) >> 18 July >> >> Conversation sent from Twitterrific >> >> >> >> Newton Never Dies; It gets it's battery recharged. >> >> Mailed from my treehouse >> >> sir iZaac >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> http://newtontalk.net/ >> http://twitter.com/newtontalk > > > > -- > -- > best regards > viele Grüsse > > *Marco Mailand* > Senior Engineer > > ABB Switzerland AG > PGHV-XE > Fabrikstrasse 13 > 5400, Baden, SWITZERLAND > > Phone: +41 58 585 40 23 <+41%2058%20585%2040%2023> > Mobile: +41 78 965 40 23 <+41%2078%20965%2040%2023> > email: [email protected] <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://newtontalk.net/ > http://twitter.com/newtontalk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://newtontalk.net/ http://twitter.com/newtontalk