From: Eric Engle (engleerica_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 01:50:09 PST
My recommendation is Frank Gruendel: You'd have to ship your Newt to Germany
but you would get German workmanship and price. So even after shipping you
would still pay the same, or less, than you would get elsewhere and you would
get simply the best workmanship. He's fairly active on this list and you can
find his email from the archive.
Example: he made an external newton battery source for me: the cable he used
was industrial strength - stronger than the newton AC cable - and *double tied.
As in "not going to break". When he sold me an emate, he installed a washer and
oiled the hinge and basically said "this emate is -not- going to break". I'd
mention the prices but then I would be ashamed for paying so little. He's also
customized a 130 and 2100 for me (removed anti-glare reflector - i find it
unhelpful and reduces pen sensitivity).
Another *possibility is Stephanie Maks (sp?) in Canada: she's also really
talented but I don't know if she offers to repair others newts or what her
prices are. Judging by all the free hackish info on her site I figure she'd do
a good job at a reasonable price.
Otherwise? There used to be a Dr. Newton in Canada who would do memory
upgrades. But I think he is at near or in retirement. Mr. PCB man has other
more important things for now and I think he only does dongle-destroyer
upgrades anyway (not because of technical competence; He's a full-time employee
at a firm though so newts are for him, too 'just a hobby').
Victor might be able to recommend other persons or maybe there is a faq on this
somewhere?
Frank's also always looking for spare parts which he can then use to repair
other's newts. However your newt is recoverable.
I'm not in any way affiliated with Frank - I'm just a *very satisfied customer.
I don't think I'm the only one.
--- James Nichols <smilr_at_mac.com> wrote:
> I'm about to go to bed, so I pull my newton mp2100 out of my backpack,
> put my wireless card in it, and climb into bed. I open the screen cover
> to see a lovely spiderweb of cracked lcd screen in front of me.
>
> shock
>
> abject terror
>
> I close the lid slowly, take a deep breath, and when I look again... -
> still there, still broken, still killed by a textbook in the same bag
> and likely some rough handling of said bookbag after returning form a
> 10-12 midnight shift in the computer labs.
>
> I power her up - and luckily (?) the lcd and backlight are fine - my
> Pirate flag still flies in Avi's backdrop, and the dialog confirming
> the wireless card's insertion pops up.
>
> But the touch sensor and glass are completely dead. Luckily my nuShield
> kept any glass bits from spilling into my bed or my backpack.
>
> So what are my options? Just how modular is the display assembly - I'm
> not afraid to take the whole thing apart if need be. Can the glass and
> touchsensor be replaced inependently of the actual lcd and/or the
> backlight? What would a good source be for replacement parts? Assuming
> I do actually manage to fix it (poor thing, had it barely a month and
> really liked it, which reminds me - I should remove the pics of my gf
> who dumped me tonight from my avi's backdrops), what sort of cases
> would persons recomend? I'm considering some sort of belt or shoulder
> holster - so I don't EVER put it in my backpack again.
>
> Woefully yours
> smilr_at_mac.com
>
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