To have "played"?

Does it make me ancient to have actually programmed for the Newton? To use one regularly up to this very day? I use it to take notes in meetings, where the "ink" is much better for me than a keyboard. Plus, the ladies dig the whole retro-geek thing, or so I keep telling myself.

All of the shortcomings of the Newton (size, processor speed, display legibility, battery life) were solved in other devices shortly after the Newton was killed. If Jobs' ego (and hatred of all things Sculley) hadn't gotten in the way, Apple would have owned that market.