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<liid="28-01-2025"><strong>28 January 2025 — Grant Hutchinson</strong>
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<li>Added Eckhart Köppen’s Year 2025 system updates for the MessagePad 2000, MessagePad 2100, and eMate 300. <span><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIA2a">IIIA2a</a><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIA2b">IIIA2b</a></span></li>
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<li>Added question “What does the 712000 update do?” <span><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIA2a">IIIA2a</a><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIA4i">IIIA4i</a></span></li>
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<li>Added question “What does the 742000 update do?” <span><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIA2a">IIIA2a</a><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIA4j">IIIA4j</a></span></li>
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<li>Added question “What does the 732000 update do?” <span><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIA2a">IIIA2a</a><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIA4k">IIIA4k</a></span></li>
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<li>Updated information regarding potential future date problems. <span><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIC2j">IIIC2j</a>
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<li>Added question “Why did my Newton suddenly freeze up in January 2025?” <span><ahref="newton-faq-nos.html#IIIC2k">IIIC2k</a></span></li>
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<liid="07-01-2025"><strong>07 January 2025 — Grant Hutchinson</strong>
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<li>Updated link to the Newton City forums. <span><ahref="newton-faq-community.html#IVA4">IVA4</a></span></li>
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<pid="IIIA2-2"><sup>2</sup> The <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch711000/">711000</a> patch for the MessagePad 2000 and MessagePad 2100 (US), the <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch74j185/">74J185</a> patch for the MessagePad 2100 (German), as well as the <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch73j186/">73J186</a> patch for the eMate were created by Eckhart Köppen to address the <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/hacking/newton-year-2010-problem/">Year 2010 Problem</a>.</p>
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<pid="IIIA2-3"><sup>3</sup> Even though they share the same numbering, the 536205 update for the MessagePad 130 is not the same as the update for the MessagePad 120, although it fixes the same bugs. Although both the MessagePad 120 with Newton OS 2.0-D and MessagePad 130 with Newton OS 2.0-D have the same ROM, they have different “Gestalt Machine Type” designations.</p>
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<pid="IIIA2-3"><sup>3</sup> The <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch712000/">712000</a> patch for the MessagePad 2000 and MessagePad 2100 (US), the <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch742000/">742000</a> patch for the MessagePad 2100 (German), as well as the <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch732000/">732000</a> patch for the eMate was created by Eckhart Köppen to address the <ahref="https://newtonglossary.com/terms/year-2025-problem">Year 2025 Problem</a>.</p>
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<pid="IIIA2-4"><sup>4</sup> Even though they share the same numbering, the 536205 update for the MessagePad 130 is not the same as the update for the MessagePad 120, although it fixes the same bugs. Although both the MessagePad 120 with Newton OS 2.0-D and MessagePad 130 with Newton OS 2.0-D have the same ROM, they have different “Gestalt Machine Type” designations.</p>
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<pid="IIIA2-4"><sup>4</sup> The Japanese <ahref="https://web.archive.org/web/20020619051814/http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~sugiyama/120.html">Newton@-AtMark-</a> site mentions both 1.4-J (444152) and 1.4-J (464353) system updates, but no documentation or packages related to these updates have been found to date. Oddly, the same site mentions the existence of a 1.5-J update as well.</p>
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<pid="IIIA2-5"><sup>5</sup> The Japanese <ahref="https://web.archive.org/web/20020619051814/http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~sugiyama/120.html">Newton@-AtMark-</a> site mentions both 1.4-J (444152) and 1.4-J (464353) system updates, but no documentation or packages related to these updates have been found to date. Oddly, the same site mentions the existence of a 1.5-J update as well.</p>
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<pid="IIIA2-5"><sup>5</sup> Apple Support: <ahref="https://web.archive.org/web/19991004024127/http://www.apple.co.jp/ftp-info/reference/messagepad120-2.0-j.html">MessagePad 120 2.0-J516205</a></p>
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<pid="IIIA2-6"><sup>6</sup> Apple Support: <ahref="https://web.archive.org/web/19991004024127/http://www.apple.co.jp/ftp-info/reference/messagepad120-2.0-j.html">MessagePad 120 2.0-J516205</a></p>
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<pid="IIIA2-6"><sup>6</sup> Apple Support: <ahref="https://web.archive.org/web/19991004031503/http://www.apple.co.jp/ftp-info/reference/messagepad130-2.0-j.html">MessagePad 130 2.0-J526205</a></p>
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<pid="IIIA2-7"><sup>7</sup> Apple Support: <ahref="https://web.archive.org/web/19991004031503/http://www.apple.co.jp/ftp-info/reference/messagepad130-2.0-j.html">MessagePad 130 2.0-J526205</a></p>
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<h4id="IIIA2e">e. What is the update numbering system?</h4>
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<p>See Eckhart Köppen’s <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch73j186/">Patch 73J186</a> page for additional information.</p>
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<h5id="IIIA4i">i. What does the 712000 update do?</h5>
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<p>The 712000 update incorporates all of the fixes from the <ahref="IIIA4e">711000</a> update, but also takes care of the <ahref="https://newtonglossary.com/terms/year-2025-problem">Year 2025 Problem</a> where certain Newton devices would freeze up after January 4th, 2025.</p>
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<p>This update applies to MesssagePad 2000 (US) and MessagePad 2100 (US) devices running Newton OS 2.1 only.</p>
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<p>See Eckhart Köppen’s <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch712000/">Patch 712000</a> page for additional information.</p>
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<h5id="IIIA4j">j. What does the 742000 update do?</h5>
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<p>The 742000 update incorporates all of the fixes from the <ahref="IIIA4f">74J185</a> update, but also takes care of the <ahref="https://newtonglossary.com/terms/year-2025-problem">Year 2025 Problem</a> where certain Newton devices would freeze up after January 4th, 2025.</p>
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<p>This update applies to MessagePad 2100 (German) devices running Newton OS 2.1 only.</p>
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<p>See Eckhart Köppen’s <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch742000/">Patch 742000</a> page for additional information.</p>
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<h5id="IIIA4k">k. What does the 732000 update do?</h5>
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<p>The 732000 update incorporates all of the fixes from the <ahref="IIIA4h">74J186</a> update, but also takes care of the <ahref="https://newtonglossary.com/terms/year-2025-problem">Year 2025 Problem</a> where certain Newton devices would freeze up after January 4th, 2025.</p>
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<p>It applies to eMate 300 (US) devices running Newton OS 2.1 only.</p>
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<p>See Eckhart Köppen’s <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch732000/">Patch 732000</a> page for additional information.</p>
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<p>Avi Drissman created <ahref="http://www.drissman.com/avi/newton/Fix2010/">Fix2010</a>, a less comprehensive patch for devices running Newton OS 2.0.</p>
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<p>See also: <ahref="#IIIC2k">Why did my Newton suddenly freeze up in January 2025?</a></p>
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<p>See also: <ahref="#IIIA2">What system updates are available for my Newton?</a></p>
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<p>Other date related problems could potentially pop up in 2026, 2042, 2099, and 2924.</p>
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<p>Other date related problems could potentially pop up in 2040, 2099, and 2924.</p>
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<p>Further reading:</p>
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<li>GitHub: <ahref="https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein/issues/24">Y2026 and beyond</a></li>
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<h5id="IIIC2k">j. Why did my Newton suddenly freeze up in January 2025?</h5>
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<p>This is known as the Year 2025 Problem.</p>
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<p>This is a variation of the <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/hacking/newton-year-2010-problem/">Year 2010 Problem</a>, but in this case it causes devices running Newton OS 2.1 to freeze up after January 4th, 2025. Rather than occurring in NewtonScript like the Y2010 issue, this problem is related to timers in the operating system itself.</p>
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<p>Eckhart Köppen created several system updates to correct this bug.</p>
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<li>The <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch712000/">712000</a> update for the MessagePad 2000 and MessagePad 2100 (US)</li>
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<li>The <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch742000/">742000</a> update for the MessagePad 2100 (German)</li>
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<li>The <ahref="https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/patches/patch732000/">732000</a> update for the eMate 300</li>
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<p>See also: <ahref="IIIC2j">Why does the date always reset on my Newton?</a></p>
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<p>See also: <ahref="#IIIA2">What system updates are available for my Newton?</a></p>
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