Hi Paul! Good to hear you’re doing well and that the inspiration has lasted this long. :)
Yes, Landon was handed the job of implementing transactional storage on NOR Flash memory, which nobody had ever heard of, while bearing in mind that the battery could be taken out at any moment. As I recall, he just sort of went off and quietly did that (aside from the faint sounds of him banging his head on his desk). And I don’t remember ever hearing of lost data on a Newton.
Yes, Landon was handed the job of implementing transactional storage on NOR Flash memory, which nobody had ever heard of, while bearing in mind that the battery could be taken out at any moment. As I recall, he just sort of went off and quietly did that (aside from the faint sounds of him banging his head on his desk). And I don’t remember ever hearing of lost data on a Newton.