[NTLK] Did I miss the memo?

[Kenroy Harrison]

My 2100 booted up but the date was January 12, 2040! I set it to today’s date and it froze. Now it won’t boot at all. I guess I’ll have to remove the power and wait.

- Kenroy

> On Jan 4, 2025, at 15:00, Matthias Melcher <m.melcher at robowerk.de> wrote:
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>> On 4. Jan 2025, at 12:59, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 4, 2025, at 10:42 AM, Aaron H <online at atomiciguana.com> wrote:
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>>> I was just going to send a query to the list about this same issue - if I remove all power and wait a bit, my Newtons will start up. And if I set the date up to 12/31/2024 things work fine. Any date past that, the Newt hangs and is unable to fully boot afterwards. 
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>>> So, just also saying "I have the same problem" :-)
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>> I haven’t noticed this on my main MP2100 ... yet.
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> 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.
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> I will need a few more details.
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> 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. 
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> Aaron, how does it behave on a real Newton MP? How were you able to get the time and dae changed? 
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> Grant, anything that may be different on your system? Different language, not in 2025 yet?
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> - Matthias
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