Re: Autoserver: Tweet from @bryanstearns

I can't imagine a soup-type system today. Those were innocent times then,
when trust was natural. I don't think you could produce a non-siloed
system, with shared data like that now. Not sure I'd buy it even!

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:08 PM 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
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> Switzerland
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> 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
> >
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