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RAParker | 1 Jul 2008 03:16
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[ANN] HOW TO - Ad Hoc Wireless AppleTalk Bridge (a Tutorial)

Announcing (as promised) for immediate download:

<http://webpages.charter.net/quadzillanet/HOWTO-WirelessAppleTalk.pdf>

TITLE:
   HOW TO: Ad Hoc Wireless AppleTalk Bridge

ABSTRACT:
   A tutorial for creating a Wireless AppleTalk Bridge;
   connecting a Newton MessagePad 2x00 (or eMate 300)
   to most (if not all) Newton Applications running under
   Mac OS X and Classic Mode.

FORMAT:
   Adobe Acrobat PDF

SIZE:
   1,001KB

This is the pre-release PDF. I will be posting it as HTML in the near 
future. You can download the PDF until I format it for the web. When it 
is available as HTML, this PDF will be relocated to a link on that web 
page.

Enjoy!

Ron A. Parker

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Sent using Mail for Mac OS X. Cyberdog lives!
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bcantley | 1 Jul 2008 03:24

Re: The future of Newton--What's your best vision?

Somebody has to be able to do a color screen...

On 6/30/08 7:25 AM, "knowtree <at> aloha.com" <knowtree <at> aloha.com> wrote:

>> In your opinion, what technology, what platform,
>> what simulation environment, whatever (and
>> please give lots o' links)...what's the current,
>> best-of-breed for most likely and successfully
>> jump starting (reviving) a 3000 version of the
>> Newton?
>> 
> While every other response to this question so far has been based on
> commercial products, my contribution is more conceptual. For me, the answer
> is not to be found in what we can buy today, but what we might do in the
> near future.
> 
> The first step is to free such a product from the constraints of commercial
> profitability. The iPhone is the way it is because Apple predicts that a
> lot of people will buy one. Open-Source software is a perfect example of
> this process: FreeBSD is the way it is because a team of volunteers wanted
> it that way. Same for Apache, and Linux, and FireFox, ...
> 
> The next step is to extend the technology to solve the unique problems of
> education. Apple realized this early on, and made the Apple II the standard
> computer in the K-12 market for many years. The Newton eMate was poised to
> enter this market just as the plug was pulled.
> 
> Now put those two ideas together. Open-Source development methods and
> personal hardware especially useful in education.
>
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Winston MacKelvie | 1 Jul 2008 03:25
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Re: [ANN] HOW TO - Ad Hoc Wireless AppleTalk Bridge (a Tutorial)

I do thank you. My how I enjoyed Cyberdog. Its Classic only, right?

Winston MacKelvie
The Winston Works Inc.
http://www.inventure.ca

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L.W. Brown | 1 Jul 2008 04:56
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Fwd: FYI [OT] "FS: Tantalum Rework Capacitors"

Just got this announcement from the LEM List - some of you Makers out  
there may be interested:
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From: Jeff Walther <trag <at> io.com>
Date: Mon., 30. Jun.,`08 22:35:50:000 EDT
To: lemswap group <lemswap <at> googlegroups.com>
Subject: FS:  Tantalum Rework Capacitors for Those Old Boards, $10/ 
set, 78759
Reply-To: trag <at> io.com

Replace the old leaky capacitors before (or after) they damage your
precious vintage Macintosh motherboard.    I'm am selling sets of new
capacitors for reworking old Mac logic boards.  A set of fifteen
capacitors is $10 shipped in the USA.

Tantalum capacitors will not leak corrosive goo onto the motherboard
the way that conventional surface mount electrolytic caps do when
they get old.

You may choose any assortment from the following choices:

Surface Mount (tantalum):
47 uF 16V AVX TAJD476K016R Size D
1 uF 35V KEMET T491B105M035 Size B
10 uF 20V AVX TAJB106M020RNJ Size B

Axial (with leads coming out the ends):
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Jon Glass | 1 Jul 2008 07:50
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Re: Personal Word List

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Andy Hill <adhill <at> fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Thank you for your comments. It was my impatience after all.
>
> Incidentally if I were to do a hard reset in the future, which aspect
> should I restore to ensure my personal word list was continued?

Good question. ;-) I'm pretty sure it would be the System soup, but if
one is using Paul's alt.rec, I don't know where he stores his extra
ones.... possibly the same place?

In any case, when I have to do a hard reset, I always back up to a
card, and restore everything from there. Never had a problem, and if
there were things I didn't want back, I just uncheck them before
restoring.

--

-- 
 -Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<jonglass <at> usa.net>

"I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus

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dotline7 | 1 Jul 2008 08:45
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Re: The future of Newton--What's your best vision?

Is it possible to modernise Newton e.g. colour screen? I would say, it would
disadvantage. A colour screen takes a lot of power and is not readable In
sunlight. 
John

On 7/1/08 4:24 AM, "bcantley" <bcantley <at> exchange.fullerton.edu> wrote:

> Somebody has to be able to do a color screen...
> 
> 
> On 6/30/08 7:25 AM, "knowtree <at> aloha.com" <knowtree <at> aloha.com> wrote:
> 
>>> In your opinion, what technology, what platform,
>>> what simulation environment, whatever (and
>>> please give lots o' links)...what's the current,
>>> best-of-breed for most likely and successfully
>>> jump starting (reviving) a 3000 version of the
>>> Newton?
>>> 
>> While every other response to this question so far has been based on
>> commercial products, my contribution is more conceptual. For me, the answer
>> is not to be found in what we can buy today, but what we might do in the
>> near future.
>> 
>> The first step is to free such a product from the constraints of commercial
>> profitability. The iPhone is the way it is because Apple predicts that a

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Tony Kan | 1 Jul 2008 10:31
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Re: The future of Newton--What's your best vision?

Just tried an iPhone for the first time this morning; a telephone pabx vendor
had one and I managed to distract him from his presentation enough to do a demo
of the iphone:  first thing I wanted to do was type in the "quick brown fox..."
but after a couple of minutes it was quite frustrating using the onscreen
keyboard.  Quite difficult to hit the right key even if one is looking straight
at it.

Tony

> BTW, has anybody managed to really master typing on the iPhone
> without looking where their fingers are going, and maintain a
> near-flawless output? Just wondering.

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Tony Kan | 1 Jul 2008 11:02
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Re: Personal Web Server and IIS

Hi Folks

Finally got around to trying to hook up to my Personal Web Server using my
MP2100.  Getting close but frustratingly can't seem to connect to the new
website even though I can hook up to it from another PC at work and the Newton
can download website pages such as www.bbc.co.uk using newtscape.

I can surf to the personal web page that reads something like
http://desktop/newton on the PC and I can download files from it from another PC
or on my laptop.

The newton seems to hang with Newtscape showing the following:

"Look up host: desktop" and
"Looking up host The host name you..." and I can't read the rest.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance

Tony

> Date: Fri 15-Feb-2008 04:01
> To: tonykan <at> xtra.co.nz (Tony Kan)
> Cc: newtontalk <at> newtontalk.net (No Name)
> From: newtontalk <at> newtontalk.net (No Name)
> Subject: RE: [NTLK] Personal Web Server and IIS

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Valerios Paris Mitritsakis | 1 Jul 2008 11:28
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Re: Personal Web Server and IIS

Try using the IP instead of the "desktop"... for example if your IP is  
192.168.0.101 use http://192.168.0.101/newton
This is because the dns server newton asks to translate the domain  
name to an IP so that it can connect to it
knows nothing about the "desktop" computer

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Σύμβουλος Πληροφορικής
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MSc Network Systems
MCP ID: 5745185

Mitritsakis Valerio Paris
IT Consultant
Electronic Engineer
MSc Network Systems
MCP ID: 5745185
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On Jul 1, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Tony Kan wrote:

> Hi Folks
>
> Finally got around to trying to hook up to my Personal Web Server
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Lord Groundhog | 1 Jul 2008 12:11
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Re: The future of Newton--What's your best vision?

~~~ On 2008/07/01 07:45, dotline7 at dotline7 <at> gmail.com wrote ~~~

> ...   A colour screen takes a lot of power and is not readable In
> sunlight. 

The power is a real point, one I forgot to mention.  Although I think the
iNstein could be made really thin with modern tech, I wonder if we could
still have the great battery life we enjoy now with the kind of batteries
they make for ultra-thin devices.  I don't know about things like Palms and
such (although I had one and the battery life was appalling, unless I didn't
use it -- no, wait, it was even bad then) but I can say I've not been
impressed by the battery life in my phones once the 6-8 month honeymoon
period ended, and sometimes even before then.  Add a colour screen and
that'll be worse.  

Sunlight is also a good point.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who's
discovered that the Newton is amazingly easy to read in the brightest
sunlight if you put on a pair of polarized sunglasses (which I'm never
without in the brightest sunlight, so that works great).  OTOH, I have to
take off my sunglasses and squint at my colour-screened phone, and usually
still can't read it well, if I'm in the sun.

Colour's main advantage is in dimmed indoor light or outdoor dusk.  Think
carefully before going to colour.  It's swings and roundabouts, as they say
here (UK).  

 
Shalom. 
Christian
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