Well I jealous, so I hope you did not have fun.
Rodney
Woo Lee wrote:
> Well, we had our 12 th. meeting Thursday night/Friday morning(Sorry Paul F.
> ;-) ). From 7 pm to 2 am., thanks to Eleu for hosting another great night
> of food, fun, jokes, Newtons, and Newtons, and even more Newtons...yes some
> were from other members not just me. LOL!
> It all started at 6:30 pm, Aug. 30. Escaped from work, got 3 dozen Krispy
> Kreme donuts, stopped at REI and got the Swiss Army Cybertool for the
> installations.
> 7:55 pm(yeah that's LA traffic), arrived at Eleu's. Met up with everybody
> and Loren F.
> 8:15 after getting some food and drink, I sat on the floor trying to decide
> which Newt. would get the first SER-001 installed. After the second bite
> of Italian sausage I picked up of course the AMP2KU. I opened it up thanks
> to my new trusty Cybertool and WHOA!, TWO PIX SOLUTIONS IMPLANTS!!! One
> for CPU overclocking and the other to maintain the real time clock. Due to
> the even more cramped space I wasn't able to install the SER-001 in my
> AMP2KU. I'm awaiting for word from Dr.Newton about this possibility to
> have both the implant and SER-001 installed in the same machine at the same
> time, even though they can't be used at the same time.. In the mean time I
> had my Sony laptop ready to download software and test the soon to be
> direct serial connection to my Newts. So that was strike one.
> On to number 2 Newt. Installed the SER-001, plugged it in, IT WORKS!
> First try to the Sony and connected. Also at 1:40 am, 9/01/2001 I'm using
> the Newton external keyboard for the first time in four years. ;-).
> Feeling good I moved onto the number 3 Newt. Installed the SER-001,
> plugged it in...and NO GO. :-( Re-installed and still no-go. So I took
> out the second SER-001 to install, plugged it in, and IT WORKED! I took
> that off and re-installed the non-working SER-001 and still no-go.
> Re-installed the one that did work and connected to the Sony at first try.
> So I have one SER-001 that doesn't work, two that works great, and seven to
> test...a long weekend I see. Oh well, THANKS David H.!!! The SER-001's
> are great, I can finally put the 'dongle' back into the boxes that stays at
> home!!!
> The installation took only 20 min. each, 6 min. to open the Newt., 2 min.
> to install the SER-001, 12 min. to close the Newt., well, you know lots of
> little pieces kept walking towards Eleu's dip. The 'bump' is very slight,
> at where the plastic cover was(for UMP2K's) the MP2100 sticker. No bother.
> Well, after all the Newton-Talking, beer drinking, calorie consuming, and
> looking at 'naked Newtons', we finally had to let Eleu get some sleep.
> BTW, Loren, you said I had 500 cards??? Well, more like 52, with Paul's
> future ATA driver it'll be just 2, one in the lower slot and one in my
> pocket as backup.
> You know, SNUG(Stanford's Newton Users Group) just had their second meeting
> on Aug. 28., we are also meeting twice a month. Not bad for a 'dead
> platform'. :-)
> If anybody has any questions let me know.
>
> Now, I can disconnect this keyboard, it's weird using an external keyboard
> that takes more time to write this than using the Newt's. built-in HWR.
> Maybe it's the 'seperation-anxiety' that I'm not holding my Newt. and using
> an 'umbilical cord'???
>
> Next meeting in two weeks at Fry's *IF* the 'east-So.Cal' members respond!
> Let me and/or Martina know! Thanks Martina, co-chair who sent out the
> mailings and gave great directions to Loren F. Hey Loren, you're welcome
> anytime, it was a pleasure to meet you and thanks for the e-autographs! ;-)
>
> !ooW %-)
> My Newt. will still be productive way after the last Palm/Handspring
> issix-feet under.
> Pres. of Los Angeles Newton Users Group!
> http://www.newtontalk.net
>
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