From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 15:10:18 PDT
Hate to say this, but it does indeed look like a
flakey NIC port...It sounds like it's just on the
verge of failing...You may want to investigate a
SER-001 sooner than later.
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
--- Steele Campbell <the.vampire_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, update time.
>
> I fiddled around with the Newton and did, for a time
> manage to make
> the keyboard work, I was able to type a lengthy
> passage using it,
> however as soon as I turned the unit off and then on
> again, the
> keyboard would no longer work.
>
> Thinking to myself: "Hrmmm, perhaps it requires a
> restart to recognize
> the keyboard?"
>
> Well, I did just that and lo and behold, the Newton
> wouldn't power up.....
>
> Several resets later, I got the Newt up and running
> however no matter
> how hard I try and in what order I plug stuff in,
> nothing seems to
> happen. Is it perhaps a flaky serial port (however
> if I insert the
> dongle into the port it powers up the Newt).
>
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