1997 July 25
We were excitedly reading
about neural nets in PC AI
May/June 1996 edition;
and bought the "Newton"
2 months before
the Newton project
was scrapped.
Apple Newton MessagePad
assembled in Japan,
with leather carrying case,
PC card flash memory 8 MB,
Megahertz CruiseCard
V.34 PC card modem,
Print Pack and
light portable keyboard
made in China.
We were given
a cute gold-plated lock
with the Apple logo;
this fitted well with
our Icarus-Gheppard
suitcase from Italy.
2005 September 19
it's still working well.
cartoons and maps
The Newton project and Newton Inc were scrapped on 19th September 1997
Very handy at meetings for writing down notes
or recording critical decisions and listing things to do.
We regularly wrote articles using both Newton Works
and QuickFigure Works.
With Notepad we practised writing Arabic and Mandarin
or drew sketches and plans.
For games of chess we had "Deep Green" downloaded from
http://www.bondo.suite.dk/newton/deepgreen.html
or http://www.danish-shareware.dk/mac.html
We used Newton Internet Enabler, En Route and NetHopper
for email and browsing the web raw.
Everything we need to know about our "Newton" is in the manuals
and at Apple knowledge base support site.
MacUser 13 October 1995 had Newton tips on page 126.
Macworld 1996 April covered comprehensively
the hardware and software.
The handwriting recognition system was integral with the Newton —
cursive recognizer and print recognizer — calligrapher,
neural network classifier, character classifier,
character segmentation code, word segmentation code,
multiple geometric context models, language context models,
search engine and many more dazzling details.
We are dumb; we feel so impoverished;
so loathsome having to accept aid from people whom we detest
for their crusade against us.
US warships in Selat Melaka? On humanitarian mission?
Aren't we dumb? Don't we know the crusaders' agenda?
We are reasonably suspicious
as they insist on bilateral bribery and bullying
bypassing the UN in offerring aid which could go
into the pockets of the corrupt ones in our midst.
We are inclined to ignore "pledges" and "promises"
made only for public relations.
Many keep asking: why?
We hace no answer. We are dumb dumb ....
We don't know what's really happening on the sea-floor.
Our loved ones lost too soon
aren't puppets of evil or puppets of puppets of evil
like those who make lives miserable with their greed for oil,
their bullying, their warring and their massacring.
Heartless and ruthless vultures in our midst
are resorting to children-and-women-trafficking
for abuses - prostitution, forced labor, slavery...
We grieve about the dead; we grieve more about our people
struggling to hold on to life after so many years of work
and progress have gone with the dead. We grieve too that
this should happen to our guests on holiday here.
We are dumb; we can't fight back or shout back
at the earthquake and the entailing tsunami.
under the picture of one of so many thousands of Iraqi children, like Palestinian children, Vietnamese children, .... orphaned by belligerent zionists and their puppets ...";
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maps: Aceh, Caspian, China, Cuba, Guinea, Iraq, Langkawi, Mississippi Basin, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Venezuala and Yemen
