I've got an amstrad emailer em2001uk that is locked up and unusable - 'Hold down (email) button to restore service', so I'm here as a beginner to see what I can do about it. All I want is to use it as an ordinary phone. I know my way a bit around a linux pc if that helps. Thanks for any advice.
On 28/10/12 20:42, Anthony Griffiths wrote:
I've got an amstrad emailer em2001uk that is locked up and unusable - 'Hold down (email) button to restore service', so I'm here as a beginner to see what I can do about it. All I want is to use it as an ordinary phone. I know my way a bit around a linux pc if that helps. Thanks for any advice.
(Did you email me directly as well?) I haven't touched mine for ages, but... you get that message when the emailer's unable to call home to download adverts. I *thought* they'd disabled that requirement last year. Has your emailer been in storage for a long time? If so it may not have downloaded the update, and if Amstrad's servers aren't running any more you may be out of luck. Just to check: it is plugged into a telephone line, right? -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ "Of course, on a sufficiently small planet, 40 km/hr is, in fact, │ sufficient to punt the elastic spherical cow into low orbit." --- │ Brooks Moses on r.a.sf.c
On 10/28/12, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote: <snip>
(Did you email me directly as well?)
I haven't touched mine for ages, but... you get that message when the emailer's unable to call home to download adverts. I *thought* they'd disabled that requirement last year. Has your emailer been in storage for a long time? If so it may not have downloaded the update, and if Amstrad's servers aren't running any more you may be out of luck.
Just to check: it is plugged into a telephone line, right?
yes it's plugged in all correct.
Ralph Corderoy <ralph <at> inputplus.co.uk> writes:
Hi Anthony,
All I want is to use it as an ordinary phone.
If Linux isn't an aim then I'll email you the contact details of the Emailer's designer off-list; perhaps he can help if you contact him directly.
Cheers, Ralph.
I have seen your email correspondence about the emailer. I have used one for a long time and found it extremely useful and I haven't found anything that does the same job. But - it has siezed up and doesn't recognise that it is plugged into a phone line and I also cannot access my fairly extensive directory and notes etc. Once before I managed to contact someone who knew the various key combinations to asist, but all lines seem to have died now. If you can put me in touch with someone who knows the tricks to get this working again it will save me much time and effort in finding all the informnation again and I would be most grateful. Hoping you can help With my thanks Robert Brody
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