MOS8_030
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My Newton clone lives again!
Well, I spoke too soon when I replied in to the Newton documentary thread when I said my Marco didn't work.
My problem was lack of patience...
Long story not-so-short, about 15 years ago I was given this Marco. It came with no power supply, nothing except the Marco carrying case.
At the time I tried a regular Newton PS but that didn't work and since I had no documentation and couldn't find any info about the Marco specs, it's
been in the box with the rest of the Newton stuff.
So recently when I got out my Newton stuff I thought I'd give the Marco another shot.
After doing some googling I found possibly the only detailed reference to the Motorola Marco on the web and I finally found the information about the Marco PS.
(Bless you Newtman!)
So I googled the Motorola PN and lo and behold there is exactly one Marco power supply for sale on ebay for a very reasonable price!
So I get the power supply, new backup battery, and Marco still no boot. Darn. Oh well.
Flash forward a few weeks to today and after I posted about the Marco I thought I'd give it another shot.
After about 10 mins on the charger and a hard reset I get the chime and Marco is alive!
The problem was the first time I tried the PS I didn't give the Marco any time to charge the (long) dead battery.
Anyway, the red & green lights are Marco searching in vain for the long gone ARDIS network.
(The dark line on the screen is from the camera shutter sync)
Anyway,
Oh, and I found the battery pack for my Messagepad too.
Well, I spoke too soon when I replied in to the Newton documentary thread when I said my Marco didn't work.
My problem was lack of patience...
Long story not-so-short, about 15 years ago I was given this Marco. It came with no power supply, nothing except the Marco carrying case.
At the time I tried a regular Newton PS but that didn't work and since I had no documentation and couldn't find any info about the Marco specs, it's
been in the box with the rest of the Newton stuff.
So recently when I got out my Newton stuff I thought I'd give the Marco another shot.
After doing some googling I found possibly the only detailed reference to the Motorola Marco on the web and I finally found the information about the Marco PS.
(Bless you Newtman!)
So I googled the Motorola PN and lo and behold there is exactly one Marco power supply for sale on ebay for a very reasonable price!
So I get the power supply, new backup battery, and Marco still no boot. Darn. Oh well.
Flash forward a few weeks to today and after I posted about the Marco I thought I'd give it another shot.
After about 10 mins on the charger and a hard reset I get the chime and Marco is alive!
The problem was the first time I tried the PS I didn't give the Marco any time to charge the (long) dead battery.
Anyway, the red & green lights are Marco searching in vain for the long gone ARDIS network.
(The dark line on the screen is from the camera shutter sync)
Anyway,
Oh, and I found the battery pack for my Messagepad too.
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