Mike Richardson
Banned
PowerBook 140
Newton MessagePad (original model)
Huge box of floppies
Traded an AirPort card. Met him in a Fry's parking lot.
Unfortunately, either everything broke after he gave the stuff to me, or maybe he was trying to pull a fast one on me. He didn't question that the AirPort card worked, so I never questioned that the PowerBook 140 worked or that the Newton worked.
I bought batteries and put them in the Newton and it refused to turn on. No matter what I did. So I tried the PowerBook 140 next, which came with 2 AC adapters and a car charger. It chimes fine, but the screen is just these random lines. Sometimes if you touch it the right way you can see a question mark disk but there's lines all over it and it's unusable. The hard drive is shot and makes the click of death noise.
So I drive to a RadioShack and pay like $37 for an AC adapter for the Newton. Bam, now it works - WTF? But only on the AC adapter. I put all new batteries but it won't use them. And the clock is totally f*cked up. For every real second, the Newton's clock goes ahead several minutes.
The box of floppies is real though. There must be over one hundred different software titles on these disks. Everything from Claris, to Microsoft, to games, System 7.5 on floppies, weird personal backups, you name it. At least 200 or 300 floppies.
My theory on the Newton is that it has a power switch problem explained in the Newton FAQ where it gets corroded or some crap, and AC adapters work while batteries don't.
Newton MessagePad (original model)
Huge box of floppies
Traded an AirPort card. Met him in a Fry's parking lot.
Unfortunately, either everything broke after he gave the stuff to me, or maybe he was trying to pull a fast one on me. He didn't question that the AirPort card worked, so I never questioned that the PowerBook 140 worked or that the Newton worked.
I bought batteries and put them in the Newton and it refused to turn on. No matter what I did. So I tried the PowerBook 140 next, which came with 2 AC adapters and a car charger. It chimes fine, but the screen is just these random lines. Sometimes if you touch it the right way you can see a question mark disk but there's lines all over it and it's unusable. The hard drive is shot and makes the click of death noise.
So I drive to a RadioShack and pay like $37 for an AC adapter for the Newton. Bam, now it works - WTF? But only on the AC adapter. I put all new batteries but it won't use them. And the clock is totally f*cked up. For every real second, the Newton's clock goes ahead several minutes.
The box of floppies is real though. There must be over one hundred different software titles on these disks. Everything from Claris, to Microsoft, to games, System 7.5 on floppies, weird personal backups, you name it. At least 200 or 300 floppies.
My theory on the Newton is that it has a power switch problem explained in the Newton FAQ where it gets corroded or some crap, and AC adapters work while batteries don't.