On Jul 29, 2005, at 4:37 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I bought a Newton 120. I really know nothing about them but I
looked this
model up in Mactracker and the operating system listed was 1.3 or
2.0. From
this information, I thoght you could upgrade. Baseed on what you
told me,
do you think they changed the operating system sometime during
production?
Thanks for responding.
Steve
They did change the NOS during production, they came with a 1.3 ROm
or a 2.0 ROM. There are some updates for each tha tyou can download
but its not possible to upgrade from 1.30 to 2.0 without a ROM
switch. If you have a 1.3, it's limiting for network stuff. If you
have a 2.0, it's still pretty limiting for network stuff. Spare ROMs
are made of unobtainium but you can transplant one from a dead
MP120/2.0 if you get one on ebay or whereever.
For limited internet use, you need a MP130 (OS 2.0) but for best
effective use you need a 2100 (OS 2.1). A 120 /2.0 can do some
serial P and limited email, but it's a bit hard- heap space is quite
limited. that said, I did make it work, sort of, for a while. For a
stand-alone PDA, it would be fine.
See <http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/newton-faq-software.html#VD>
for some OS and internet info.
Brian
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