Re: [NTLK] Newton Newbie (2100 in the mail!)

From: David M. Ensteness (denstene_at_mac.com)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 07:05:37 PDT


I can only help on a couple of these ...

On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 06:27 PM, The Coffee Fiend wrote:

> 2) Can I use standard AA batteries? (or is it AAA?) or does that
> require
> some special holder for the newton that I might not have?
>

AAs, and you have to have a battery cage which you place the 4 AAs into
and then slide it in, it is the same form factor as the rechargable
battery pack.

> 3) What is the current status of 802.11b wireless ethernet
> compatability? I know the farallon wireless card is supposed to be
> supported, but I recently found out about another card that works in my
> PB 1400c (Mac<somebody> god I can't remember. Bookmarked it at work.)
> and I was wondering if these cards would work.
>

works great but sucks batteries like a son of a gun. I use a WaveLAN
card but a bunch are supported.

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