[NTLK] Are 120s, 110s suffering from date issues

[Lloyd A. Conway]

    My 130 (OS 2.0) malfunctioned, and neither a reset nor an  
attempted brainwipe fixed the problem.  I ended up taking out all  
batteries, including the round reserve one, leaving it that way for  
an hour, and then reinstalling.  It booted up to Nov., 1995, but  
otherwise works normally now.  (I reset the date to 2003, since at  
least the dates will fall on the same days of the week as those in  
2010.)
-Lloyd Conway
On Jan 10, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Andy Hill wrote:

> Hi Matej, if a 120 was for sale on eBay how would I know which OS it
> had? Would I need to ask the vendour to take a look?
> Or is it a hardware issue? would it say on the back?
> Thanks
> Andy
>
> Matej Horvat wrote:
>>> I am curious to purchase a 120 for interest sake but wondered if  
>>> they
>>> are experiencing problems with the date issue?
>>>
>>
>> Remember that there are 2 versions of the 120: the one with OS  
>> 1.3, and the one with OS 2.0.
>>
>> OS 1.0-1.3 Newtons (from the OMP to the 120/1.3, including all non- 
>> Apple Newtons) aren't showing any signs of malfunction in the year  
>> 2010 and beyond, but the 2.0 version might have problems.
>>
>> -Matej Horvat
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