Re: [NTLK] OT: a few things

From: Jack Burks (dumbstart_at_satx.rr.com)
Date: Sun Apr 18 2004 - 15:20:11 PDT


Also slow down the port speed and lower the buffers on the com port that you
connect to with your Newton, I've found that it does wonders to make a more
stable connection (allows me to use only one instance of slowdown instead of
two).

Hope that helps,
Michael Burks
www.dumbstart.com

> On 18-apr-04, at 15:25, Rowan Pope wrote:
> > Apparently the newton connect stuff works under windows xp i've been
> > told?
> > I couldn't install it, it brought up a message about install.ex_ not
> > found, but it's there. Is this a known issue? Does it work under XP?
>
> Welcome to the list, quite an introduction... ;-)
>
> As for XP, NCU should theoretically be able to install on it but if
> your computer is fast enough to run XP comfortably you might end up
> with issues with the serial speed. Running Slowdown.exe a couple of
> times fixes this problem for some but not all.
> Seen the fact that you have a choice of OS's I would connect with a
> Mac...

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