The eMate is a great machine for its intended uses. Accept none of the usual insults regarding your new toy.
I have fiddled with several of these over the past months, and while my experience of the eMate as such is not particularly noteworthy, Newton interest is scant around here, so I'll offer such help as I can.
A "hard reset" is the first thing to try in getting the machine operational: press both power on button on the keyboard and the reset button on the bottom simultaneously, holding them in together for a few seconds. A Newton typically requires a hard reset if it has been left without power for even more than a few hours; it will chime if it starts up.
It might be good to have it plugged in for an hour or two beforehand: there is a capacitor inside that needs to store a charge.
If that fails, I would check to see if the ROM card is properly seated under the rear cover. If both slots are filled, then you have a bonus of the relatively rare memory upgrade (tends to cost $40+).
Given the existence of the unna archive, there is little reason to want to preserve any old software that might be on the machine, so there is nothing to fear from a hard reset; the "real" software is in the rom, anyway, and you can't wipe that with a reset of any sort. The add-ons can go on later, and a hard reset is best if you want to install the requisite packages for networking.
I have been a Newton (MP2100) user for 10 years. Welcome to the club.
I have fiddled with several of these over the past months, and while my experience of the eMate as such is not particularly noteworthy, Newton interest is scant around here, so I'll offer such help as I can.
A "hard reset" is the first thing to try in getting the machine operational: press both power on button on the keyboard and the reset button on the bottom simultaneously, holding them in together for a few seconds. A Newton typically requires a hard reset if it has been left without power for even more than a few hours; it will chime if it starts up.
It might be good to have it plugged in for an hour or two beforehand: there is a capacitor inside that needs to store a charge.
If that fails, I would check to see if the ROM card is properly seated under the rear cover. If both slots are filled, then you have a bonus of the relatively rare memory upgrade (tends to cost $40+).
Given the existence of the unna archive, there is little reason to want to preserve any old software that might be on the machine, so there is nothing to fear from a hard reset; the "real" software is in the rom, anyway, and you can't wipe that with a reset of any sort. The add-ons can go on later, and a hard reset is best if you want to install the requisite packages for networking.
I have been a Newton (MP2100) user for 10 years. Welcome to the club.