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spirit without Starting Member Canada 37 Posts	Posted - 08 Nov 2001 : 19:29:57 so what kind of a chip do the pre 2000 series newtons have? i remember it was around the 20MHz mark, but that's all... i've got a MP120 w/2.0. anyone else here with newts? -------------------- specialist spirit without Bolo Driver 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68K Macs liberated:1
benightedbastard New Member Australia 62 Posts	Posted - 08 Nov 2001 : 22:20:44 It ran on an ARM processor, didn't it?
benightedbastard New Member Australia 62 Posts	Posted - 08 Nov 2001 : 22:25:27 Oh, and I don't have any Newtons (they're mighty hard to find over here), but I'd take a 2100 over any current PDA.
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 08 Nov 2001 : 22:35:18 The 120 and the 130 had a 20 MHz ARM, and the 2000 series had a 162 MHz StrongARM. (I'm pretty sure, but correct me if I'm wrong) ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army (now with forums!) 00007 Macs liberated.
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 09 Nov 2001 : 10:57:39 i guess Apple was just ahead of their time or something...i saw a couple PocketPCs with those ARM processors... FireWire is fast General, 4 star 68k Macintosh Liberation Army
benightedbastard New Member Australia 62 Posts	Posted - 10 Nov 2001 : 08:26:06 Yeah, the Newt was one mean machine. Current PDA's are really only just starting to catch up, specwise.
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 10 Nov 2001 : 08:31:29 Definetely. Now there's speculation of a New Newton with G3 speeds quoted. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army (now with forums!) 00007 Macs liberated.
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 10 Nov 2001 : 09:15:48 I have A Newton 130, and I love it, except it's backlight is broke. In the next year, I want to get ahold of a 2100, and use it for years to come. Did you know that you can Sync your Newton in OS X via the Newton Connection Utilities if you have it on your Apple Talk newtowk? ~Marchie ~~"We are all Mad here."~~
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 10 Nov 2001 : 09:22:11 I think you can, over LaserWriter Bridge s/w. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army (now with forums!) 00007 Macs liberated.
blue7500 Starting Member USA 13 Posts	Posted - 10 Nov 2001 : 23:47:49 I have an MP130. It's great. But, I _really_ need to get a memory card for it. Anyone on 68kMLA have a 1 or 2mb Newton branded card they'd like to sell? Rockhopper blue7500 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 20
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 11 Nov 2001 : 05:16:48 How about asking in the Trading Post? Anyway, I'm getting an MP130 for $50 AUS!!! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army (now with forums!) 00007 Macs liberated.
Alien Junior Member Netherlands 269 Posts	Posted - 22 Nov 2001 : 12:19:58 OMP/MP100/MP110/MP120/MP130: 20 MHz ARM 610 eMate: 25 MHz ARM 710a MP2000/MP2100: 162 MHz StrongARM 1100 ,xtG .tsooJ RTFM
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 22 Nov 2001 : 20:07:11 Anyway, I got my neato MP130 plus a cool leather case for $58 AUS!!! The postage alone was $20.75, so thats $37.25 for the Newton! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army (now with forums!) 00013 Macs liberated.
TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 26 Nov 2001 : 21:43:20 nice deal jeremy "If we go down the shitter the whole ecosystem goes down the shitter." Steve Jobs My AOL, AIM Sceen name is got 007s milk Covert Ops 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:15
TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 04 Dec 2001 : 01:42:39 I bet you didn't know that Intel designed those StrongARMs. Crazy but true only time Intel knew what they where doing jeremy "If we go down the shitter the whole ecosystem goes down the shitter." Steve Jobs My AOL, AIM Sceen name is got 007s milk Covert Ops 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:15
Alien Junior Member Netherlands 269 Posts	Posted - 11 Dec 2001 : 11:47:02 quote: I bet you didn't know that Intel designed those StrongARMs. They didn't. Intel didn't buy ARM unitl last year or so. When the Newtons were manufactured, ARM was a joint venture of Acorn Computer and Apple. ,xtG .tsooJ RTFM
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 11 Dec 2001 : 16:00:09 Ah, but did you hear THIS one: When the PowerPC chip was being designed, it was a joint effort between IBM, Motorola, Intel, and Apple, with Sun off to the side dropping bits of information into the pile when they felt mischevious. Well, before the chip was done, Micro$oft acquired some specs, and reviewed them. After M$'s engineers got done figureing out which end was up, they gave a report back to Billy Boy Gates. He screamed, and turned to Intel and said "you Morons! If you switch to this chip design, we'll have to TOTALLY rewrite DOS and Windoze! Either leave or we'll take windows to Sun!" Because at that point, the Windows crew was designing NT for the Sun and Sparc archetectures. Soon after, intel left the group, and designed the Pentium class of chips. SO... How does the moral of this go? If M$ hadn't made Intel leave, all Window$ and Mac computers would use the same chip arcetecure, makeing software that was easily portable from one OS to the other would be relatively easy, and it'd be Mac vs Windoze based totally on User Interface. And who wins THAT war? ~marchie ~Chaplain Marchie 68k Macintosh Liberation Army ~~"We are all Mad here."~~
blue7500 Starting Member USA 13 Posts	Posted - 04 Jan 2002 : 12:17:08 I think the 2000s were 162.9 MHz. :P Missle Commander blue7500 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 20
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 04 Jan 2002 : 21:22:56 Apple Confidential has all of the Newton specs. The original MessagePad through the MessagePad 130 had a 20 MHz ARM 610 processor. The MessagePad 2000 and 2100 had a 162 MHz StrongARM SA-110 processor. On a related note the eMate 300 had a 25 MHz 710. (this info is on pages 150-151 if you downloaded the book from the 68k mla hotline server) FireWire is fast General, 4 star Forum moderator 68k Macintosh Liberation Army
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 04 Jan 2002 : 21:24:13 whups. just realized that Alien posted the same exact info. Sorry! FireWire is fast General, 4 star Forum moderator 68k Macintosh Liberation Army

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