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Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 16 Apr 2002 : 15:22:19 I picked up a 56k US Robotics Sportster modem from work (they got DSL), and hooked it to the Newt. A QUICK little configuring on the Newton (well.. and instaling drivers form unna.org) and I can send/receive e-mail! tonight, I'll try and post to this thread from the newton itself. Once I can hit webpages and such, my goal is to get a Jabber system worked up so I can use AIM form the Newton. ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac - -Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head -Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip ~~"We are all Mad here"~~
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 16 Apr 2002 : 15:29:52 Woohoo! Congrats! I'd love to do this, but my 120 is only on OS 1.3, and it don't seem to be internet compat. Oh well... <sigh> SpaceBoy AppleBASIC FOREVER! As of 4/8/02: TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PB 1400/133, "KayPro II" PB 180/33, "Osbourne 1" PMac 7100/G3-266, "DEC Rainbow" and "Altair 8800" Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" iMac Rev.A/333mHz, "Deep Blue" Newton 120, "PADD"
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 16 Apr 2002 : 17:54:03 What was your location, SpaceBoy? I've got a spare 120 OS 2.0 ROM... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
Wonkothesane Full Member USA 506 Posts	Posted - 16 Apr 2002 : 19:54:39 Good luck, Marchie! quote: my goal is to get a Jabber system worked up so I can use AIM form the Newton. Does that mean you are going to write your own IM client? Wonko The Sane Engineer-in-training 3 Macs Liberated "You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 16 Apr 2002 : 22:47:41 Hey Coxy- I'm in (all too sunny) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Earth, Milky W-, err, too much info! <slaps forehead> By OS 2.0 ROM, do you mean an upgrade file, or an actual ROM chip? Jus' wonderin', as I'm pretty much a newbie at this Newton stuff. I've never been able to get my Newt sync'ed up with a desktop (or portable, for that matter) Mac, but I suspect that the OS is screwey. Any help would be great! Thanks, SpaceBoy AppleBASIC FOREVER! As of 4/8/02: TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PB 1400/133, "KayPro II" PB 180/33, "Osbourne 1" PMac 7100/G3-266, "DEC Rainbow" and "Altair 8800" Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" iMac Rev.A/333mHz, "Deep Blue" Newton 120, "PADD"
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 17 Apr 2002 : 14:20:19 No, there is already a jabber client for the Newton, so all I have to do is set up my Jabber account. ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac - -Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head -Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip ~~"We are all Mad here"~~
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 17 Apr 2002 : 18:45:41 Anyway, it's a ROM chip kind thing: you need to open up the Newton (not a task for the faint-hearted) and put it in physically. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 17 Apr 2002 : 19:09:26 Coxy- Well, doing brain surgery doesn't scare me... toooo much... Would it involve soldering? Or is it more of a plug-n-play kinda thing? At the moment, the Newt 120 is just sitting in it's plush fold-over case collecting dust and acting as a book-end, so even if I do nuke it, I won't be losing a whole lot (in day-to-day usefulness, anyway). Feel free to email me at huckdunsany-at-hotmail.com if you want to work something out... Thanks! SpaceBoy AppleBASIC FOREVER! As of 4/8/02: TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PB 1400/133, "KayPro II" PB 180/33, "Osbourne 1" PMac 7100/G3-266, "DEC Rainbow" and "Altair 8800" Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" iMac Rev.A/333mHz, "Deep Blue" Newton 120, "PADD"
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 17 Apr 2002 : 19:14:27 plug and play... The chip itself is quite small and I could probably put it in an envelope with a bit of pastic for shock protection... Got anything to trade for it? ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 17 Apr 2002 : 19:22:58 Hmmm... trade.... Well, there's the stuff that I've already listed in the Trading Post, plus newton stuff I've got around... I've got what may be a Newton 2x00 printer cable, but Marchie was interested in that...<hint hint, marchie!>. I don't know if he still needs it, as he hasn't contacted me for a while. My Newton came with a good load of stuff, but I've not been able to really play with any of it, becuase the damn thing has been unable to connect up with a Mac to install any packages. I'm hoping that upgrading to OS 2.0 will help. I've got a 2 meg memory card and a 4 meg card (both Apple branded), the cigarette-pack external modem (this thing is really cool!), a bunch of floppies (most are for PCs... yech!), the PC serial cable, misc. manuals, etc. Also, on a completely different subject, I recently was lucky enough to've been given two CD-ROMs with x86 versions of the BeOS- I think one is Version 5 Pro, and the other is Version 4 and 5 personal. I'd be happy to loan/trade/copy these, if they'd be of any use... Thanks! SpaceBoy PS Boy, you sure reply fast! :-) AppleBASIC FOREVER! As of 4/8/02: TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PB 1400/133, "KayPro II" PB 180/33, "Osbourne 1" PMac 7100/G3-266, "DEC Rainbow" and "Altair 8800" Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" iMac Rev.A/333mHz, "Deep Blue" Newton 120, "PADD"
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 17 Apr 2002 : 19:30:40 I'll take one of the PCMCIA memory cards, if you're willing to trade. Drop me an email: coxy@literatureclassics.com. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated

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