From: Grant Symon (Grant_at_GrantSymon.com)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 14:15:49 PDT
On 7 Jun 2004, at 14:53, Grant Symon wrote:
> I have a 2100, which I used to *love* until about a year and a half
> ago, when it stopped accepting charge ... and then finally ran out of
> battery. And then I tried a different power adapter, at the same
> voltage setting, but no luck. It will no longer start up. :( I don't
> know whether or not the different adapter caused a terminal problem, or
> if there is some other problem.
Hi,
well this is pretty amazing.
My Newton has been in a drawer for almost two years and following the
conversations in this thread, I got it out and tried it again. This
time I put in rechargable AA batteries from my digital camera. Whoa!!!
It started!! So nothing is fried and all my data is still there!!
Just amazing.
Anyway ... I tried using it with the Newton Power adapter and nothing
... the Newton rechargables are totally dead too, obviously. So my
guess it that there is a problem with the socket for the mains adapter
... but I'm not sure .. (remember I tried with another adapter and it
didn't work? Well, it seems I might have been lucky, because it was
never really plugged in and thus, it couldn't fry the main board.)
So ... I'm a happy camper.
Now the major question is what I'm going to do with it and to that end
I have a few questions :
1/
I've gathered from viewing a few posts on the list, that there is WiFi
capability now (will there be no end to progress in the Newton
community?). I have a Sonnet 802.11g PC card for an old G4 Powerbook.
Would this work with the Newton? or are there only specific cards
which work? I also have an ethernet card which used to work with my
Newton. Have there been any advances in transfer software in the last
couple of years. I remember that I used to have a really hard time
getting it to work properly.
2/
I see also that there is a Sync app for X's Address book and iCal.
This would be very cool. Does it work well?
3/
GPS would be well cool too. What are the best options for this? Could
it be used for driving? Are there many maps available?
4/
What about Flash memory cards. Can I use a PC Card adapter, with say a
64mb Flash card. (I currently have a 2mb and a 4mb card.)
5/
I have a Nokia T610 phone, would the IrDa be compatible? Are there any
drivers for this phone? (I even have a Nokia modem card which worked
really well with an old Nokia phone)
6/
Is there any kind of webmail reader? I used to have Eudora email
installed, but it never worked very well. Have there been any
improvements in this in the last couple of years?
7/
Is web-surfing out of the question now?
8/
Basically .... what are people using them for these days? What's your
favourite Newton thing?
Aside from all that, I still think I'm going to need Frank or Johannes
to look at my Newton in Paris, but for now ... it working! Oh yes ...
I think I have a *ton* of Newton software on a CD somewhere. Mostly
demos, other than the stuff I purchased. Is there any software missing
from your archives, that you've been looking for and can't find? Maybe
I might have it.
Grant
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