Re: [NTLK] Hard reset - Who Does 'em?

From: Chris Chapman (pan1k_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 00:01:34 EST


Well yeah Ed. Using my MP100 for the past two weeks is like . . a car
w/o a steering wheel, i'm moving but i'm not sure in which direction.
Cripes. Even my girlfriend is looking out the window for the UPS man
now . . .

-Chris
On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 08:45 PM, Ed Kummel wrote:

>
> I'm just aghast that someone can go "a week of so"
> without their Newt! Who is this heretic? I suffer from
> seperation anxiety if I go to the bathroom and leave
> my newt on my desk. To me, my Newt is like the
> security blanket is for Linus from Charlie Brown
> fame...
> Heck, whenever I do a backup of my mp2k, I do restores
> to my other MP2100 and my two other MP120! That way I
> have "hot-swappable" Newts ready for any emergency,
> "scuse me maam, Newton emergency, let me through! Get
> this man a Newton! 120, 130! Anything, can't you see
> he's suffering?"
>
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
>
> --- Loren Finkelstein <Loren_at_Finkelstein.Net> wrote:
>>
>>> as I have had mixed results. The sure fire way is
>> to remove the battery and
>>> let the Newt sit for a week or so. Then everything
>> is really gone.
>>
>> I am really, really (call it 99.9%) sure that a hard
>> reset (aka. Brain Wipe)
>> wipes out the unit as completely as anyone could
>> want to.
>>
>> The only think I can think of that a week without
>> battery would add to this
>> is the loss of time & date.
>>
>> Someone correct me, please, if I am wrong here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Loren
>
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