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2026-08-03 06:03 UTC
@younata@hachyderm.io Thanks for sharing these photos and observations. It brings back memories. Newton was the best. I wish we could have the Newton mental model and UI but with the benefit of modern compute power. It was so far ahead of its time.
You mentioned soups. Such a great concept for what was then called a PDA. Now we have apps, each its own walled garden. I guess some data can be accessible different places (like contacts) but on Newton it was seamless as I remember.
Also wow that backlight was a really distinctive color, eh? 😅
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@whophd@ioc.exchange 2026-08-03 07:25
@scott@sfba.social @younata@hachyderm.io SOUPS! SOUPS! Other than this and Intel Optane, we’ve never really questioned the fundamentals of computer architecture. Even in early USSR or China systems, AFAIK. Microsoft tried and failed making a FileDB and it basically derailed Vista as we know it? They had their turn to rethink NTFS. Too late now? And even now, things like contacts and the entire way we cloud-sync app data shows that file formats aren’t the only option, or even a good one sometimes (No, don’t look at Windows Registry)