Hmm. One of the two runs 1.3, so I was thinking that it would be
less of a jump for it if there was any other difference between the
two. The other is 1.1. I shall soon see, though. This brings up
another point - has anyone cracked one of these suckers open before?
If you have any tips, etc, it would be appreciated.
-James
>Mmmm, not quite. It ran 1.05 originally, I believe. The 1.3 was a
>later add on at the factory.
>
>See, my big issue here is the hardware differences between a 110/120
>and an OMP/100/EP. Between the OMP and 110, Apple redesigned the
>internals of the Newton to be cheaper to produce. The 100 was a sort
>of stop-gap upgrade for OMP users. The ROMs are different between the
>100 and 110. Circumstanstial evidence of this is the fact that they
>use different updaters to handle things like screen resolution,
>memory addressing, power requirements and screen contrast. You can
>also find many hardware differences just by looking at the models,
>different screens, different batteries, a contrast wheel on the 110,
>and the different card slot voltage for the 110 to handle higher
>speed PCMCIA modems. My feeling is a 1.3 ROM in a 120, is going to be
>more geared to the improvements of the later 110/120 platform and
>unable to handle the differences of the OMP/100/EP. This is roughly
>equivalent to the old MacOS system 7.1 which was somewhat tailored to
>specific macintosh systems and could not be used on different models
>with the same disk. Not to go [OT] here...
>
>Anyway. I have my doubts, but as I said, I'd love to be proven wrong.
>A 2.0 ExpertPad would be the Coolest Thing Ever IMHO.
The James Elliott Newton Site:
http://www.geocities.com/rootbeeraddict/newton.html
Is that a Newton in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
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