Dale Steele announces that his webPage is available again. I took another look at the mistery newton gear he got some time ago and asked him about the MP2x00 ROM board he had. I'm not sure if he realized at the time what he had, because he sent it to Frank Gruendel for further analisys. Take a look at this pictures:
This is a picture of his card. 3 free spaces!!
This is what the rest of our newtons have.

Wow!!!! Look at this!!
http://www.nomodes.com/LinzmayerBook.html

What's this? a cheese newton?
http://www.jensjunge.de/flohmarkt/newton/fotos/DSCF0126.JPG
http://www.jensjunge.de/flohmarkt/newton/fotos/DSCF0127.JPG

Wow. Grant Hutchinson's Newton server has reached 50.000 hits! I can think of a few places that would like to have that much traffic!
http://newton.splorp.com:8080/

Joshua Hillman asked MacAddict for a forum and he got it! Just another place newton users to meet. Thanks for the effort Josh!
http://www.macaddict.com/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=46

David Orris Jr. has created a mailing list for NSBasic and NewtCard users. To join, send a message to:
nsbasic-newton@yahoo.com

A new release of ATA support is out. Paul Guyot fixed a couple of bugs in this release. More info at:
http://www.kallisys.com/newton/ata/

Aaron Eiche needs your opinion about the possibility of making new battery trays for the newton. His original post:
http://www.newtontalk.net/archive/newtontalk.2002-12/2655.html

Frank Gruendel has uploaded a new and improved version of his E-mate disassembly page. Worth reading it even if you don't have an emate.
http://www.pda-soft.de/emate_disassemble.html

I've been working in this voice recognition program for the newton. I'll call it Voice Command. So far, it can recognize silences pretty well. ;-p. Seriously. I'm working in the framework that will allow us to save new commands and compare them with a new sound. As a side effect, a wave editor program is in the process. A couple of screenshots of the testing applications:

Ouch. No pills in 12 days! Here's a bad doctor. Uhmm.