I took my Newton MP2000 with me to a family Christmas gathering this past weekend. It sure came in handy with keeping a 13yr old boy and 6yr old girl occupied. They had never seen a Newton before and figured out how to use it very quickly. They both kept fighting over who could play with it next. Luckily I had a Battleship game installed where they could play together π
Then I had to listen to a relative rant and rave that computers were the worst idea that was ever thought upβ¦ we rely on them too muchβ¦ Y2K will cause all computers to blow upβ¦. yadda, yadda, yaddaβ¦ I think he was just jealous that he didnβt have a handheld computer that could make kids be quiet and sing Jingle Bells using text-to-speech!