[NTLK] Jim's dead Newton

Forrest newton_phoenix at mindspring.com
Fri Jul 10 05:33:04 EDT 2020


EXACTLY. One of Murphy’s Laws:

“A device or appliance which had a problem will work perfectly at the Repair Facility but will demonstrate the exact same problem once back at home.”

Mahalo,
Forrest

Sent from my T-Mobile iPhone 11

> On Jul 9, 2020, at 3:39 PM, Dennis Swaney <romad at nvwisp.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually it is the perverseness of mechanical, electrical, and electronic
> hardware where they act up until you try to show a repair person the
> problem, then the unit works perfectly!
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dennis B. Swaney
> 
> "Cogito Ergo Mac"
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:12 PM Sylvain Pilet <sylvain at pilet.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Frank, Paul, Sonny, and all of them.
>> 
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Well what I'm saying is that when you exchange two identical ROMs (2
>> ROMs of MP2000 US) there is always a Brain Wipe.
>> 
>> 
>> Well listen, now I'm like an idiot, today I wanted to make a video of this
>> strangeness, but today, in front of the camera, the Newton 2000 and the two
>> ROM-US behave normally, I mean that today there is no more BrainWipe when I
>> exchange the two ROM-US !!!
>> 
>> You see the moment when you say "damn" I shouted loud and clear that such
>> a thing was true here, and you realize that you'll have to deny everything
>> because you dreamed or you went crazy !
>> I can't figure out at what point I lost track of reality?! That I can't
>> explain. I can't have confused it with a Watson's ROM because they're
>> really different physically. So what happened two days ago?
>> 
>> By the way, I very rarely drink alcohol, that can't be it either!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sylvain Pilet
>> 
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