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    So what's new with your Newton?

    I’ve been using it to keep to-do lists and journal. I had been using a Palm V, as I find ‘out of band’ organizing to work best for me (my iPhone is a box of distractions and notification fatigue), but Palm OS, for as brilliant as it is doing so much with so little, is…uninspiring. The small...
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    Any recommendations for fun / interesting / useful Newton software?

    The Psion commercial developer community gave out universal serial codes several years ago, and I’ve actually had good luck emailing the developers who didn’t and them being pleasantly surprised enough that people are still interested in their software that they’re happy to release serial codes...
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    3D Print MessagePad 2000 Battery Tray

    The prices listed on the website are insane, and they mentioned that their current prices are lower and the website hasn’t been updated in a while.
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    Introducing (and interest check) CircuitTalk: LocalTalk for PowerMac G4

    Well, I was just about to ask if anyone had replaced the useless modem card in a Pismo, and here you are doing it. Case mod is not ideal, for sure, but the way I was going to go about it is to ditch the totally-useless-in-2025 S-Video port and mount the Mini-DIN upside down in its place. Does...
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    Probably a dumb question: is there a faster way to set the year than tapping 312 times?

    somebody angy
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    3D Print MessagePad 2000 Battery Tray

    Link is dead. Are you still selling them?
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    New Disk Emulator - "Tiny SCSI Emulator"

    If you're getting your feet wet building a SCSI emulator, you're doing it extremely wrong. ;) How well has this project and your attitude about it gone, since seven years later, nobody's ever heard of it?
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    Announcing and interest check: Integrated AirTalk for PowerBook 100 series

    Put this on GitHub so folks can find and collaborate on it more easily. :)
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    25,000mAh PowerBook 1xx battery

    You won’t have a 25,000mAh battery. Capacity is only additive if you wire the cells in parallel, in which case you will have a 1.2V battery pack, which won’t power a PowerBook. If you connect them in series, you’ll get a 12V, 2,500mAh pack. I say this without spite, but out of honest concern...
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    Has anyone tried replacing the internal modem?

    If I'm not mistaken, internally it talks to the mobo via a regular serial connection, which seems ripe for a Bluetooth or WiFi adapter. Obviously it would need a new driver, but that is likely a solvable problem. Has anyone toyed with this? A twisted-pair modem is good as useless these days...
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    New theory on the cause of the infamous Tunnel Vision problem - Testers needed!

    Additional data point, my 170 lives in Houston, a humid swamp, and as far as I know has spent its whole life here, and has nary a trace of tunnel vision. If it was exclusively moisture, I think it's spectacularly unlikely that mine would remain unaffected, so there seems to be some...
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