[NTLK] Newt OS 1.3 and Newton Connection X

[Blake Hanes]

Unfortunately, Messagepad's cannot have their OS upgraded via software.
On a MessagePad 120, the only way to upgrade the OS is to find a rom chip
for the 120 with OS 2 already on it.

Cheers,
Blake.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:23 PM, arceeHS <arceehs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a MP 120 with Newt OS 1.3 and am trying  to upgrade the OS to 2.0
> without success. With either Newton Connection X or NewTen I can't get the
> MP to connect to the computer. Note that I checked out the cabling setup
> with an MP 2100 and NOS 2.1 before trying the MP 120.
>
> Two failure message sequences
>
> 1. "Waiting for a response" then "Connection The connection was stopped
> because there was no response." or
> 2. "Connection  A connection error has occurred." (71461004) This error
> code does not show up in any list I've found.
>
> In either case NCX thought it was connected to the MP.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a lot of options to set on the MP unless I'm
> missing something somewhere.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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