A different solution appears to be under development. There is a reasonably active open source development community around the Newton OS, so hopefully this nut will soon be cracked.
All the same, I'll wait until sometime in the Autumn of 09 before updating, I'll be sure to backup first, and I'll likely backup more often for a while afterwards than I tend to do at present.
For those with scruples about applying patches of the sort linked, there is another option that I have read about: put the calendar back 10 years.
I've used my Newton 2000 (now 2100) daily since 1998. It is a wonderful and interesting little machine that I wouldn't want to do without from January 2010 either.
All the same, I'll wait until sometime in the Autumn of 09 before updating, I'll be sure to backup first, and I'll likely backup more often for a while afterwards than I tend to do at present.
For those with scruples about applying patches of the sort linked, there is another option that I have read about: put the calendar back 10 years.
I've used my Newton 2000 (now 2100) daily since 1998. It is a wonderful and interesting little machine that I wouldn't want to do without from January 2010 either.