This article provoked me to think about devices I had purchased in the last 5-6 years and left to rot. I charged up an Android tablet I got in late 2012. Then I brought out the Asus EEEPC 900 I got, two years earlier.<p>The tablet has always had issues holding a charge even when turned off, and it&#x27;s a bit bulky, so I might put it back into service as a wall-tethered calendar and planner.<p>The EEE I stopped using because the original SSD was painfully slow and the bigger&#x2F;faster one I got as a replacement died within a month or so. I ordered a new 64GB SSD for the EEE and am typing on it right now off a USB boot - it could become my future writing and notetaking device. It doesn&#x27;t have the battery life of the Newton, but I could invest in a few aftermarket batteries as backups. This would complement my existing paper workflows, which come into play for the cases where I want to switch between drawing and writing.