when @radiofreelunch extremely generously offered to send me a "couple" old Newtons, i balked. i had an old MP2100 years ago, and it was tough to get software loaded on them, even with all the correct hardware
driving home an hour later, i thought: what the hell is wrong with me, i'm turning down a free newton?! 😅
a week later, this amazingly heavy bundle of Newtons and Newton peripherals arrived. thank you good sir :D
Pictured:
Newton MessagePad (+box/software)
Newton MessagePad
Newton Message Pad 110
Newton MessagePad 120
Newton Fax Modem (battery-powered!)
there is extensive battery leak/corrosion from the AA batteries on each of them, so they'll spend the next few months getting some TLC. hopefully most survive!
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an #animation of a point on a circle generating a #cycloid.
If you turn the curve "upside down", you get the #BrachistochroneCurve. This curve provides the shortest travel time starting from one cusp to any other point on the curve for a ball rolling under uniform #gravity. It is always faster than the straight-line travel time.
@newtontalk A friend said people here might be interested in Newton devices. I think I will keep the 2000 (so I can theoretically run my software) but the others are available to anyone who wants to pay shipping from Tacoma, WA. (Preferably as a set.) #newton#messagepad
@vga256 Probably not your thing but I have a bunch of old Newton devices. I think I want to keep one to see my software but want a home for the others. (My very minimal search didn’t turn up anywhere that people were wanting them.)
So this #Newton MessagePad 130 showed up on PayPay Fleamarket for $45. Never seen a Newton go for this cheap in Japan (even with massive a black screen burn spot), and they're rare to show up to begin with.
The photos didn't show the screen, but revealed some bad battery leakage (which was also disclosed in the description), but I figured at least it could be used for parts (my pen on my 120 has lost it's end cap!)
My favourite #NewtonOS is 1.3, because I used it a lot back int days. Even 2.1 is supirior.
But thats why the #newton messagepad 120 with 1.3 is one of my favourite #pda
It’s now thought that they could illuminate fundamental questions in #physics, settle questions about #Einstein’s theories, & even help explain the #universe.
…In recent yrs, the amt of data that scientists have discovered about black holes has grown exponentially.
It’s in these simple, outlandish objects, Broderick explained,“that 20th-cen #physics breaks down.”…Basically, there’s #Einstein’s theory of general #relativity (which made a tiny but far-reaching correction to #Newton’s concept of #gravity), & there’s #QuantumMechanics. “General relativity is thought of as the theory of the very large & massive, & quantum mechanics is the theory of the very small or very cold,” Broderick said. #BlackHoles are massive(gen relativity), & cold (quantum mechanics).
Mica powder does seem to have fixed my #Newton MessagePad 2000's problem with sticky rubber coating. I went with black powder so it may be darker than the original.
WARNING: I'm brand new to Newtons so I can't guarantee mica powder will work on yours. If you try, please get advice from others too and test it first.
English polymath Isaac Newton, who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and theologian, died #onthisday in 1727.
His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics [1]. He also made seminal contributions to optics (among many other things), and shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing calculus.
Hack (newthack) roguelike for Apple Newton? Sounds awesome! And yet...
Shame so many of the full versions of these awesome old programs are locked behind dead registration schemes, never to be opened or played fully again…
then turned to the 'metaphysische Anfangsgründe ..."-text he is about there and gladly found this #phil#sunday#word
"... Weil ich den erweiterten, obgleich immer noch materiellen Raum nur in Gedanken habe und mir von der Materie, die ihn bezeichnet, nichts bekannt ist, so abstrahire ich von dieser, und er wird daher wie ein reiner, nicht empirischer und absoluter Raum vorgestellt, mit dem ich jeden empirischen vergleichen und diesen in ihm als beweglich vorstellen kann, der also jederzeit als unbeweglich gilt. Ihn zum wirklichen Dinge zu machen, heisst die logische Allgemeinheit irgend eines Raumes, mit dem ich jeden empirischen als darin eingeschlossen vergleichen kann, in eine physische Allgemeinheit des wirklichen Umfanges verwechseln, und die Vernunft in ihrer Idee missverstehen."
there's an imop particularly interesting preprint by Aaron Wells (uni paderborn) on Émilie du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects, viz.
Its finish is sticky, though, as seller reported. I tried what worked on my other stylus: IPA. Tested it on a corner and it got the goop off and doesn't seem to be damaging the underlying plastic.
Newton folks, think this is safe to do across the whole case?
@ZDF [39:30] #Newton: Deutschland kommt mit einem Herzinfarkt zu Ihnen in die Praxis und Sie behandeln zu erst den Fußpilz?! #Lindner: Ja, sehen Sie, wenn Fußpilz jahrelang unbehandelt bleibt, dann können die Dermatophyten die inneren Organe befallen.
N: Das mit dem Herzinfarkt haben Sie mitbekommen?
Were #Newton MessagePad 120s always a bit green, or did they turn that way? Because here one is next to my gray hoodie and blue pants, and it's definitely not blue or gray.