I'm Sylvain Pilet, better known as message-pad.net my site about the Newton.

The first time I saw a Newton was at the Apple Expo in Paris in 1997. It was 4 years later that I got my first Newton, well rather my first Newtons!

Because I had the opportunity to buy a stock of spare parts from an old Applecare in Paris. In this lot there were dozens of new Newton 130s never opened and some other spare parts for the MP2x00. I shared this lot of Newton 130s with other Apple fans from all over France and in a short time I only had a few Newton 130s left. But very quickly I wanted to have MP2x00s…

Since that time there is always at least one Newton on my desk, ok, right now there are 7! :-)