A little while back we linked to ByteCellar's Apple //c terminal, and now he's gone and put a Newton online. You can check out the whole setup in the gallery, but the short story seems to be that he hooked up the eMate 300 to a serial-to-USB terminal, and then ran it through his Mini. Pretty easy, he says, since he'd already done it with the Apple //c, and apparently it's just an experiment-- while he could easily keep it around for IRC, he says the eMate is bound to its eFate as a paperWate.And if getting the Newton hooked up as a terminal revs your engine, I was surprised to find out that TUAW houses the original Newton serial connector. Very impressive-- even in 1993, Sadun was doing stuff with Apple hardware that makes my head spin. Figgles, apparently, is her Newton.
And finally, if you don't have the knowhow or the patience to hook your Newton up to a serial internet connection, you could always just pull an Ihnatko and fake it. How long has he had that sticker sitting around? If you're not up for actually stickering your iPhone, Jer Wood's wallpaper might be more your speed.
[ via MacBytes ]
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9-13-2007 @ 9:30AM
Morgan Aldridge said...
The Newton eMate 300 definitely makes the perfect serial terminal companion, especially for those who need to manage lots of equipment via their console ports. It makes it almost easy (esp. compared to using the Apple //c).
I recently had to resort to using my MacBook Pro as a keyboard for my MessagePad 2100 during serial terminal duty and would have much preferred having an eMate handy:
http://makkintosshu.dyndns.org/journal/newton-serial-terminal-using-a-macbook-pro-as-a-keyboard
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9-13-2007 @ 5:34PM
Charles said...
Heh.. I just restored my old Sol-20, I was thinking of hooking it up as a terminal. I just need to find parts to make a DIN-8 to DB25 serial cable. Oh well, probably more trouble than it's worth.
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9-13-2007 @ 5:35PM
Charles said...
Heh.. I just restored my old Sol-20, I was thinking of hooking it up as a terminal. I just need to find parts to make a DIN-8 to DB25 serial cable. Oh well, probably more trouble than it's worth.
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