Since I am averse to posting primary email addresses on a web page searchable by bots, these addresses all point to my server from whence they are dispatched as necessary. This allows me to filter obvious spam, and to avoid giving out direct contact information.
For all intents and purposes, my Newton keeps my life inside its cute little rubberized innards. All of my contact info, calendar, current email, lecture notes, notes to self, Infocom games for those quiet moments, and my Internet access- all in one small friendly place. I bled with Apple, owning first an Original MessagePad (luckily, I didn't pay much of anything for it), then a MessagePad 120, and now a MessagePad 2000 (which will be upgraded to a MP2100 as soon as I have the cash). Yes, the original MP was useless and over-promised. Yes, Apple deserved what it got for that let-down. However, if you think the Newton is still in that morass, think again. Better yet, run to your nearest Newton dealer and play with a MP2000/2100 or eMate. Even the MP120 was quite useful; it just couldn't handle communications well, and was slow. I'd still be using it as a spare if my mom hadn't stolen it from me.
I think this phone is the first one that fulfills the promise science fiction made to me as soon as I could read. In the future, everyone will carry their phone with them! It will keep your phone numbers in it! It will talk over the electromagnetic spectrum! It will be able to access common services other than telephony! Well, folks, the future is here, and it took a lot less time than even the sci-fi authors thought. I had a couple of cellular phones (Motorola flip, Motorola Tele-Tac) but they fell short. Battery life measured less than one day; the phone reception wasn't great, voice quality was so-so, and they were expensive! Then I discovered that upgrading to a digital phone would be cheaper than keeping my analog and my pager...and off I went. I now am a happy customer of Bell Atlantic (ex-Nynex) Mobile. They sold me a used Qualcomm QCP-800 phone for cheap with the trade-in of my analog, and I've been happily carrying it ever since, and paying less to use it. It lives on my hip basically 24/7 now.
I think this phone is the first one that fulfills the promise science fiction made to me as soon as I could read. In the future, everyone will carry their phone with them! It will keep your phone numbers in it! It will talk over the electromagnetic spectrum! It will be able to access common services other than telephony!
Well, folks, the future is here, and it took a lot less time than even the sci-fi authors thought. I had a couple of cellular phones (Motorola flip, Motorola Tele-Tac) but they fell short. Battery life measured less than one day; the phone reception wasn't great, voice quality was so-so, and they were expensive! Then I discovered that upgrading to a digital phone would be cheaper than keeping my analog and my pager...and off I went. I now am a happy customer of Bell Atlantic (ex-Nynex) Mobile. They sold me a used Qualcomm QCP-800 phone for cheap with the trade-in of my analog, and I've been happily carrying it ever since, and paying less to use it. It lives on my hip basically 24/7 now.
The Mac II is my first Macintosh. It's still going strong after 10 years! And it's running System 7.5.3. Show me a PC that's ten years old that not only is still in use but is running a modern OS and the latest version of Microsoft Word (my Mac II is running Word 6.0.1). I finally bought a new machine (a PowerMac 8500/120 refurbished, quite cheap, excellent box) and my Mac II is now my desktop at school. From that vantage point, it also serves as the Repulse's Communications Board; it runs Qualcomm's Eudora Internet Mail Server (ex-Apple) and dispatches messages to me. Why? Because I'm not putting my real email addresses for my cell phone and Newton on the internet. Spam is bad enough at one email account. Oh, and before any smartaleck PC users butt in: yes, I still use the Mac II as a word processor, spreadsheet cruncher, Internet link, and game machine. Oh, and it runs my databases as well. Not bad for a 10 year old machine, eh?
The Mac II is my first Macintosh. It's still going strong after 10 years! And it's running System 7.5.3. Show me a PC that's ten years old that not only is still in use but is running a modern OS and the latest version of Microsoft Word (my Mac II is running Word 6.0.1). I finally bought a new machine (a PowerMac 8500/120 refurbished, quite cheap, excellent box) and my Mac II is now my desktop at school. From that vantage point, it also serves as the Repulse's Communications Board; it runs Qualcomm's Eudora Internet Mail Server (ex-Apple) and dispatches messages to me. Why? Because I'm not putting my real email addresses for my cell phone and Newton on the internet. Spam is bad enough at one email account.
Oh, and before any smartaleck PC users butt in: yes, I still use the Mac II as a word processor, spreadsheet cruncher, Internet link, and game machine. Oh, and it runs my databases as well. Not bad for a 10 year old machine, eh?