4,000 Newton modems tumble on video

Decidedly silly, but we love a bit of crazy domino fun here at MY iTablet, and it's even better when the dominoes themselves are actually tiny totems of Apple heritage.  It seems that on an unstressed day back in 1996 part of the Apple Newton team decided to put around 4,000 "surplus" modems for the prematurely-PDA into action, only rather than set up a huge, impractical dial-up connection they stood them all on end and then knocked them down.

A quick look on eBay, however, shows that MessagePad modems are going for around $2.50 a piece, which means that if they'd saved the little blighters in their packaging they could've sold the lot for $10,000.  I'm sure they're kicking themselves now.

[via Macenstein]