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Welcome! Always great to meet another Canadian tinkerer around here.

Following this entire thread, I have been impressed by your perseverance to see this project through. A lesser man (perhaps myself) would have thrown in the towel ages ago. Bravo.

That image of Amelio and Frank Casanova (a manager in Apple’s Advanced Technology Group at the time) is from my two decade old post “The Elusive Pink eMate”. The image was shot by Seth Resnick and originally appeared in this August 7th, 1996 MacWeek article.

I’ll follow suit with a glamour shot of one of my clear case eMate prototypes. Original image from Flickr.

I don’t have a problem with mailing stuff to the states. These Newton modems are pretty lightweight anyway. DM your address and I’ll let you know what postage will likely be.

Fortunately, this is the only example of such “chemistry” I’ve discovered so far … fingers crossed that there aren’t any more surprises lurking in the stash.

Here’s are some images of a Macintosh IIcx that I opened up a couple of years ago. I love how the battery leakage caused the capacitors to foam and look like delicious toasted marshmallow. And by “love” I mean “ew”. An extra bonus is the residual damage to the floppy drive.

Have you looked into the Y2010 patch developed by Eckhart Köppen? It solves the date reset problem on MP2x00 and eMate devices. http://40hz.org/Pages/newton/hacking/newton-year-2010-problem/

NewtPaint is such a great program. I’ve been a huge fan of that “fatbits” aesthetic since MacPaint first appeared in 1984. I have a number of Newton modems in my collection. I’d be happy to send you one for the cost of postage. Where are you located?

You’re certainly not the only one. I run the NewtonTalk mailing list which has been operating since 1997 and still has near 1,000 members. Many of those members are avid collectors and still use their little green friends every day. Personally, I have close to 100 Newton devices in my...