Archival update: 2025-08-15

In 2023, Folklore.org was converted into a read-only archive and transferred to the Computer History Museum. In the process, it appears that the Newton stories were all removed; maybe they were felt to be beyond the scope of the site, or maybe their existence was simply forgotten, since they were always second-class citizens on the site.

Since there's no point in running a scraper for content that no longer exists, I've disabled the feed generator on this server. No additional Newton stories were ever added to the site after I created the feed, so this was entirely a pointless project!

Here are Wayback Machine links to all of the Newton stories, for the curious:

  1. LISP: The root of Newton Toolkit
  2. Getting In on the Ground Floor
  3. You're Not Supposed to Lose Data
  4. Newton Jabberwocky
  5. Like a Bug Under a Microscope
  6. A MessagePad Memory Primer
  7. A Kick Under the Table
  8. Newton Applications Use Heap Space
  9. The Alternatives are a Real Step Backwards
  10. A Free Newton with Your Plastic Pen, Sir?
  11. Faxing is Easy!

Below are the original contents of this page, for my own archival purposes.

Folklore.org is a site housing anecdotes related to the development of the Macintosh 128K. In addition to these stories, it also contains a hidden section with Newton stories. I wrote more about the site and its Newton stories in this blog post and this one.

The main project at Folklore.org, "The Original Macintosh," has an RSS feed, but the Newton section does not. I did not like having to manually check for site updates, so I wrote my own Atom feed for the stories using Python. Naturally, no stories have been added since I wrote the feed, but such is life.

Here are some links: