Perhaps not, but they may be more informative.

Then by all means just take whatever random Android phone you can bum off of eBay for $10 and try dragging-and-dropping a MessagePad ROM image to it. They're all going to work equa…

Honestly, I'm curious to see what happens, even if it costs me an arm.  Not if it costs me an arm and a leg, though.

I think a better question is what do *you* think would happen if one were to stick a Commodore 64 ROM into an Apple II. The answer is essentially the same as what you could reasona…

What would happen if you physically adapted a Commodore ROM for an Apple II board? It seems the digitizer would be a second-order problem. But no, I didn't think it's work out o…

The short answer on CPU compatibility proper is that the Newton devices used the ARMv3 family CPUs (you'll find some ignorant references claiming that the Newton was "ARM 6", but "…

Right.  This is why I don't want to risk any expensive or interesting tech.  So two things.  1) Have you ever seen WiFi working in Einstein?  I saw a reference to it being possible…

Unfortunately, beyond the similarity of the ARM processor, which despite being descendent from the one used in the MessagePads is probably a slightly different instruction set, the…

1) This isn't about Einstein... 2) Does anyone have any thoughts on possible compatibility of any ARM-based smartphone and NewtonOS? - That's it.  I don't really know enough to a…

On that note, does anyone have or know of where to find Fuser or Fissioner? I'm not sure they're necessary at this point, but all the available tutorials seem to be specific to tho…

Never mnid. I found a Newer Technology drive enclosure initially meant for a Mac Mini.  I put the hard drive in there and just accessing it on the Ubuntu box is so much faster …

I reset the BIOS on the Bay trail machine and it now has Ubuntu 14.04 installed and sharing its wifi connection over ethernet.  I tried Linux Mint Mate 17.1 but couldn't find a sim…

The font aspect I know is possible (in theory), though I'd have to track down my research on the font templates. At the time, this predated my use of emulators, so I had no deve…

On the Newton? I doubt it. Japanese is somewhat possible but even then the support isn't great. You'd have better luck turning off HWR and just letting it clean up what you draw.

I can't believe there'd be ingest on this list, and my research (years ago) never led me to conclude it's necessarily possible... By this I meant handwriting recognition sorry. A…

While I have the Bay Trail machine working again I may either leave the iBook there or try my Lombard to see if it can handle sharing its connection since either of them would take…

quinterro said: I wondered if the iBook could do the same thing.  After trying it out it worked like a charm.  At the moment it is sitting on my bookshelf running Internet Sh…

About two weeks ago I switched from Roadrunner to U-Verse.  The modem for Roadrunner was in my office, while the modem for U-Verse was in my living room and on the opposite side of…

There was a P4 toshiba laptop designed the same way, the DC-DC board was bolted on with one of these, and it always caused problems

If you get one of these shipped it's a good idea to reseat everything anyway, even if it is screwed/latched down.

Ya, it is a piss-poor connector for sure. I thought the same thing after install, that a solid bump would free it.

It's that lousy connector. I have a Gateway Solo 9200 (PII@266MHz) which all the boards (Video, I/O, CPU, HD, Power) are sandwiched together by these connectors. It took a nasty fa…

That's definitely strange! I wonder if any other Macs have done something similar, and if so how many...

Yup, about mid-way. I would assume this could happen with an upgrade card when a driver loads. But odd on stock hardware. So not sure. It detected the defect and did not use the RA…

It said something about detecting a hardware defect later in the startup process? I'm intrigued now... how did it say it?