4,000 Newton modems tumble on video

November 27th, 2007 | Category: iPhone

Decidedly foolish, but we love a bit of crazy domino fun here at MY iTablet, and it’s even better when the dominoes themselves are actually tiny totems of Apple heritage.  It seems that on an unstressed day back in 1996 part of the Apple Newton team decided to put around 4,000

“surplus” modems for the prematurely-PDA into action, only rather than set up a huge, impractical dial-up connection they stood them all on end and thereupon knocked them down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teW7a8lOwYY

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