I've seen the digitizer ribbon sliced through by a broken port cover.
This is repairable with a bit of careful soldering.
I wonder if the little cushion that presses the contacts against the
logic board may harden over time?
Maybe the system is perplexed and needs a brainwipe and restore.
Good luck
Woody
PS
Keep your wonderful site up.
WS
On Apr 13, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Ed Kummel wrote:
> Well, doesn't that just suck? I had my batteries out of my Newton
> since I sent my original email and just now put them back in...
> And guess what? My digitizer doesn't work anymore! I can't tap on
> anywhere on the screen and have it recognized! Sheesh, that sucks!
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
> http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> By Richard Feynman, Physicist, Nobel winner (1918-1988)
>
> "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number.
> But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national
> deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should
> call them economical numbers."
>
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