[NTLK] Did I miss the memo?

[Aaron H]

On a real Newton (both 2100s, both English), if I remove all power and wait long enough, reverts to a 2008 date and boots normally. Then I am able to the date normally. (one actually reverted to a 1997 date, so I must not have the 2010 patch on that model)

Setting a 2025 date freezes the Newton (although it will still draw pen input on the screen, in weird state!), and rebooting from there will result in the hang during boot.

Aaron.

> On Jan 4, 2025, at 2:00 PM, Matthias Melcher <m.melcher at robowerk.de <mailto:m.melcher at robowerk.de>> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, yes, the bad thing is that this happens to Einstein as well. But that's also a good thing, because I can now single-step through instructions and find out what exactly happens, and hopefully eventually fix this.
> 
> I will need a few more details.
> 
> So on Einstein, I get stuck with the logo up after the boot sound, and I can't do anything at all after that, not even change the time. The boot process gets pretty far, but it gets stuck in some Newton task that keeps triggering a memory violation or similar, probably something in the REx. 
> 
> Aaron, how does it behave on a real Newton MP? How were you able to get the time and dae changed? 
> 
> Grant, anything that may be different on your system? Different language, not in 2025 yet?
> 
> - Matthias