[NTLK] New owner of a MessagePad 130

[Avi Drissman]

You're welcome. I wrote it because there was a huge panicked thread on
Usenet at the time, and I wanted to show that something could be done so
that everyone would stop complaining :)

The folks who made the OS patches to fix it for real deserve a ton more
thanks.

Avi


On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:39 PM Laurence W Brown via NewtonTalk <
newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:

> well, thanks, despite any remaining issues!
>
> -L.W. Brown
> via 8s+
>
> > On Dec 27, 2022, at 18:14, Avi Drissman <avi at drissman.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wait.... Fix2010 actually works? I wrote it back in 1998 with very
> little
> > testing, and I remember that many years later coming back to NewtonTalk
> to
> > find that it had issues.
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 7:46 PM Steve Valin via NewtonTalk <
> >> newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Alec,
> >>
> >> From memory, I believe Avi Drissman’s fix2010 package works for MP120
> and
> >> MP130’s running 2.0.  You can find it on Unna under utilities/patches.
> >> This is what I installed on my MP130.
> >>
> >> -steve
> >>
> >>
> >>>> On Dec 27, 2022, at 11:58 AM, Alec Johnston <alecrj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello!
> >>>
> >>> I was recently given a still working MessagePad 130. I've read some
> info
> >> on
> >>> a date fix patch for eMates and MP2x00s, Do any of those patches work
> >> with
> >>> the 130?
> >>>
> >>> I downloaded the UNNA and mirrors archives. Any recommendations on what
> >> to
> >>> look for?
> >>>
> >>> I have a USB adapter coming, and downloaded NCX. I do have some 90s
> Macs
> >> I
> >>> can connect with if that doesn't work, too.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you all for keeping this community alive.
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