BoingBoing reports that the Newton Museum is closing its doors — and is selling its entire collection on eBay. We’re very sorry we cannot bring ourselves to bid on the whole lot, which includes samples of nearly every Newton device made (wasn’t there a non-Apple licensed model?); we’ll console ourselves with the two Newtons (110 and 2100) we already own. The Treo is nice, but it’s a crappy Palm — and even a great Palm is pretty dumb compared to a Newton.

It’s a shame Apple totally gave up that space, since the mojo they’ve brought to the music market makes it clear they could have done well, had they stopped pushing the Newton in the wrong direction (“Bigger! More expensive! Less sync!”, while the Palm guys were quietly doing small, cheap, and effortless multi-platform sync).