Re: [NTLK] Can I use a Stowaway keyboard?

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Grant [Secure Shell] Hutchinson wrote:
> http://www.splorp.com/newton/stowaway/protocol/
>
> Now, if someone would like to write a driver that translates the Stowaway
> protocol to Newton keyboard protocol, we'd be that much closer to cooking
> with gas.

Convert to the Newton protocol? Why? Just write a new package that detects
the Stowaway and sends keyboard events. Through C++ would be the way the ROM
keyboard driver does it, through NS would probably be doable as well. You
could likely hack up something quick in NSBasic as a proof of concept.

Or, a hardware junkie could write a program for a PIC that converts Stowaway
scancodes to Newton Keyboard scancodes.

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