On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 04:17 , Dustin Long wrote:
> I've been silent so far, but I gotta say a couple things along this:
>
> I'm not sure how cold "really cold" is. I'm near Houston, TX (USA) and
> we had a cold snap this week. Temps in the 20's (F) last night and
> supposed to be around 15 (F) tonight. (I think that's pretty
> cold, being
> from Southern California!)
Yeah, it wasn't all _that_ cold. I'm from Northern Indiana ( which
I know isn't even _that_ cold for our Great White North friends ).
That was one of the weirdest things moving to Richmond, VA with
that kind of background. Here people go absolutely ape if they hear
the word "snow". It's really funny.
> Several times I've left my Newt in the car overnight in weather
> like that,
> and it wouldn't turn on when I first brought it back inside. After
> letting it "warm up" to room temperature for several minutes, I've
> never
> had a problem. The message when the machine restarted was
> invariably that
> the system restarted because the battery was dead -- this happened both
> with new(ish) alkalines and with my Newton-original rechargeable
> battery.
I didn't think there would be a problem. I was as surprised as the
next guy would be to find myself staring at the "Welcome to
Newton!" screen, asking to be calibrated... Erg.
> In none of these cases did I ever lose any data or have to
> recalibrate the
> screen. There were some heart-stopping minutes during the "warm
> up" when
> I had ugly ice crystals/water droplets under the screen (visible
> through
> the LCD) when I was sure I'd finally killed my poor 2000.
Well, I saw some condensation, and was momentarily freaked out.
In other news, I'm having a devil of a time trying to get my Newt
connected via Serial to my iBook. I've done it before, but there's
some magical order in which I have to do it to make it work.
Perhaps I forgot where in the series the goat sacrifice is supposed
to take place...
> And in none of these cases was the car locked. ;)
Well, hell, in Texas y'all carry bazookers with ya, don'tcha? In
leather holsters and all...
Zachery Bir <zbir_at_urbanape.com>
<URL:http://www.urbanape.com/>
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