Welcome! My name is Gleb Dolgich. I live in London and am a Newton user and fan. This is a quick and dirty page I put together to tell everybody about the London UK Newton Users' Group meeting that took place on 29/10/02 at the Imperial College in London.

I was there for the first time, and I liked it very much. All the guys were really friendly, we had a few beers and discussed lots of things. Actually it appeared that we had had an agenda for the meeting, but due to the lack of wireless internet connection it was unfulfilled. Nevertheless, I felt among friends that are united by their devotion to a great piece of technology that is Apple Newton.

I used my Nokia 7650 to take several pictures that I'm presenting here for your amusement. I tried to keep the page small, but it still is graphic-intensive, so I'm not sure if it will work on a Newton.

Bob Barkany organized the event, and was there first. He had a big bag full of Newton-related goodies. When I arrived, Bob was sitting at the entrance of the Alexander Fleming building, and all his Newtons were hidden in his bag. I wasn't sure if he is the one, so I produced my Newt from my bag and held it in my hand. "Excuse me, are you a Newton person?" I heard immediately, and so we met. Bob also bought beer for us.

The next guy I met was Joel Sciamma. He showed us custom styli for Newton and other PDAs. These styli have a nylon tip that feels much softer than any other stylus, making writing on the screen much easier and less noisy (you don't hear "clicks" when you write). For Joel, disassembling a Newton (or, as I suspect, any other high-tech device) is a child's play. If anything goes seriously wrong with my Newton (Gleb touches wood), Joel probably will be the first person I contact about fixing it.

Ronnie Simon showed us what kind of screen protector he is using (it comes off quite easily, and prevents others from seeing what is on the screen; Ronnie says it does not prevent him from that :-). We also had a little chat about the current PDA technology, and decided that Microsoft Pocket PC is not convenient at all, and Symbian OS is a GOOD THING (hint: I work for Symbian).

Richard Harbottle arranged a room for our meeting. In fact, there were so many of us that we had to move to another bigger room. The next thing Richard promised was to set up wireless internet access for our next meeting. As I understood, Richard works at the Imperial College and is involved in molecular genetics. He was very lucky to have SER-001 socket installed into his Newton at the meeting. It took about 20 minutes, did not involve any soldering, and the person who did this was...

He lives in Kansas, USA, and is temporarily in London. He works at a chemical company, but is also a tech-savvy person. Looking at him working, it appeared to me that to install a SER-001 into a Newton is not so difficult. For Paul, that is. This was the first time I saw an open Newton. The green square thing at the right is SER-001.

Mike Mob is a Mac person. Windows is just too slow for him. He reads hundreds of emails every day, and I guess his Newton makes life easier for him. And for everybody else.

Andy Black started his Newton era by buying two Newtons and upgrading the backlight of one of them with a white one. It looks very cool.

I was so busy taking photos of others that I forgot to take a photo of myself, so I had to find another one in my archive. It was taken a day before the meeting at home. My 5 year old son Daniil took it with my Nokia 7650. I work for Symbian where we develop the best mobile OS in the world. I also use my Newton 2000U on a daily basis and cannot imagine life without it.

That's it. I hope our meeting was as interesting for others as it was for me. I also am looking forward to meeting again, not in a year but much sooner.