February 26, 2008
Deep toast.
Normally, I’m a big fan of coincidence and synchronicity. Today, not so much. On the eve of the tenth anniversary of Apple discontinuing development of the Newton, the Cobalt Qube which had been hosting the Newted Community site for the past nine years suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure. Ouch. If that’s not a coincidence, I’m not sure I could put my finger on a better example. And while I’ve been attempting to resurrect some portion of the site data from a questionably coherent backup, I’ve already had a half dozen offers of replacement hardware.
Now that’s a community indeed.
By the way, if you’re a Newton geek of any measure, you will have understood the nod to our little green friend in the title of this post. For everyone else, “deep toast” refers to a alert message indicating that some piece of Newton hardware (generally the rechargeable battery) can no longer be reliably used. An arguably fitting salute.
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