The World Wide Newton Conference for this year takes place in Tokyo next month. Last year Paul Guynot announced updates to his Newton emulator for the MacOS and for Linux devices (Zaurus and Nokia N800). The future of the platform was also discussed, things like getting color for the Newton, getting the OS onto another platform, and so on. This got me really interested, and happy, that the Newton is moving on, despite Apple's abandonment of the platform about ten years ago.

I have not used my Newton regularly for about four years now, however I am considering bringing it back from retirement for day to day note taking, GTD, project management usage. I am eager to download conference presentation notes, powerpoint (or keynote) slides, and to follow developments in the Newton community.

I had thought of selling off my Newton quite a few times...but I am currently more optimistic about platform improvements :-)