Re: [NTLK] What might a headphone jack in a 130 be useful for?

From: Daniel Padilla <dproldan_at_telefonica.net>
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 16:55:23 EDT

    There were a couple of museums using Newtons for their guided visits,
Smithsonian IIRC, maybe that newton came from one of those.

found a reference here: (look for smithsonian)
http://www.answers.com/topic/apple-newton

Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Gruendel" <newtontalk@pda-soft.de>
To: <newtontalk@newtontalk.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:33 PM
Subject: [NTLK] What might a headphone jack in a 130 be useful for?

> Hi gang,
>
> some time ago I got my hands on a couple of dead 130's that had
> the built-in speaker disconnected and a headphone jack installed
> instead.
>
> Do you have any idea what those might have been used for? Certainly this
> hasn't been
> done only to hear the pen or action sounds better. Are you aware
> of any OS 2.0 software that might be more useful when used with a
> headphone?
>
> Thoroughly researched answers might benefit the Newton community since I
> won't keep all four for myself. Your chance to get at a piece of Newton
> history, maybe.
> But if there's nothing this jack can be useful for, I'd simply remove it
> and
> re-connect the built-in speaker.
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
>
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