Yo all,
>Hey all, in my ongoing quest to be as lazy as possible about transferring
>files between my powerbook and my newton, i have embraced irDa instead of
>buying a serial adapter. And now, I've hit upon a new idea (new to me
>anyway). I put my flash card in my powerbook and it's recognized at least
>on some level. I get an icon for the card on the desktop, and the standard
>"opening this icon does nothing" message, but is there any way to move
>files between the MacOS and the newton-formatted card? If there isn't, why
>the heck not?!?! :)
A notebook, be it powerbook or wintel, can use ATA type devices like
CF cards - the Newton can not. The ATA device is usually formatted
like a little hard disk drive, the Newtons Linear Flash card has the
Newton's own type of file system on it.
It probably would not be to difficult for an experienced MacOS
developer with driver-writing experience on a fairly low level to
develop something which can read this card in a Mac - and the same
would probably go for wintel.
To the best of my knowledge, however, nobody has done that yet, though ...
Best regards,
Chris
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