[NTLK] Age of List

[Gene Beaird]

I seem to remember getting the list via Claris mail on my Mac IIci.  Or maybe it was when I got Earthlink, but it was still on the IIci. Not exactly sure when that was, though, it had to be 97, 98 or 99, though.  I had (have?) an OMP, then 120/130 (not sure which, but my wife and I both got one), then moved to the MP2K for both.  Both were later updated to MP2100s.  To say we were a bit disappointed when The   Steve(R) pulled the plug on the project would be an understatement, though. We had some investment in the project.  

Now, if I can just get decent batteries for the things…..

Regards,

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

> On Mar 27, 2018, at 11:00 AM, newtontalk-request at newtontalk.net wrote:
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> Hi
> I am not a plank holder on the list, but I can tell you that in the late 1990s (up to 1999), there was very little interaction between Newton users online. Most users were high level users, meaning doctors and researchers in lab coats, at above the rank of Lt.Cmdr in the US Armed Forces, or above the E7 enlisted ranks, depended on your security clearance.? Palm users were messaging back and forth, which was a major security concern back then, we were briefly given Messagepads. We loved them. Then Messagepad went belly up overnight. We actually had a group that tried to hold on, sharing programs, no way to compete with money, and what Apple considered a failed platform, so the message-board went away
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>    On Monday, March 26, 2018, 6:58:26 PM CDT, Noah Leon <moosefuel at gmail.com> wrote:  
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> This may be a question for Grant or Victor: how old is the Newtontalk list if you include the years that it was Newtontalk.com? Is there an archive of messages pre-2001 or so? I would be curious to see what people were discussing in the 90s.