[NTLK] Newt OS 1.3 and Newton Connection X

arceeHS arceehs at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 19:58:02 EST 2012


Thanks, Blake

Darn, I wish I'd asked about this yesterday - it would have saved a lot of
fiddling around.

But even so, shouldn't NCX connect to an NOS 1.3 MP?

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Blake Hanes <kissmyash933 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, Messagepad's cannot have their OS upgraded via software.
> On a MessagePad 120, the only way to upgrade the OS is to find a rom chip
> for the 120 with OS 2 already on it.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake.
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:23 PM, arceeHS <arceehs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a MP 120 with Newt OS 1.3 and am trying  to upgrade the OS to 2.0
> > without success. With either Newton Connection X or NewTen I can't get
> the
> > MP to connect to the computer. Note that I checked out the cabling setup
> > with an MP 2100 and NOS 2.1 before trying the MP 120.
> >
> > Two failure message sequences
> >
> > 1. "Waiting for a response" then "Connection The connection was stopped
> > because there was no response." or
> > 2. "Connection  A connection error has occurred." (71461004) This error
> > code does not show up in any list I've found.
> >
> > In either case NCX thought it was connected to the MP.
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be a lot of options to set on the MP unless I'm
> > missing something somewhere.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
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