Re: NTLK Re: ASK these questions three...

From: Chris Gagné (chris@homepagecorp.com)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 13:56:07 CDT


| 3. Has anyone sucessfully connected to their newt via IRdA WITHOUT using
| any additional software on the newt?

To a PowerBook.

In response to #2, is there a Newton emulator that reads the Newton PC Card?

Stainless Steel Rat wrote:

> * Chris Gagné <chris@homepagecorp.com> on Wed, 05 Jul 2000
> | 1. (Where) can I get Newton Drivers for a Xircom modem/ethernet card?
>
> You can't. Xircom has been very proprietary with their hardware, requiring
> all sorts of expensive NDA paperwork and such. Nobody has ever written a
> Xircom Ethernet driver for Newton.
>
> | 2. Is there any way to read a Newton PC Card in a powerbook?
>
> Sorry, no. Conventional computers use conventional filesystems. Newton,
> being an unconventional computer, uses a completely different method of
> data storage, one that is totally alien to conventional data storage.
>
> | 3. Has anyone sucessfully connected to their newt via IRdA WITHOUT using
> | any additional software on the newt?
>
> Connected to what?
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