[Duo2400] Re: SCSI PC Card readers for Macintosh.

[Cheyanne & Randy]

Hi Duoistas,

	I still play and work with Newtons.

Here's the URL for the official FAQ:

http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/

And here's a searchable archive of NewtonTalk:

http://www.newtontalk.net/archive/

And the best software archive is here:

http://www.unna.org

	There is an ATA driver avaiable and a driver for wireless 802.11.  Try 
a newton, you'll love it :-).

Randy

> The Newton line wouldn't work with a conventional PC card hard drive,
> because they don't use the ATA spec for storage. Rather, they support 
> an
> older standard which I forget the name of but I don't think is in much
> use anymore, but at one point was a common interface for Flash 
> expansion
> cards which were not necessarily intended for file storage but rather
> memory expansion.
>
> I remember picking up a 14MB card for my Newton 2000 that someone was
> unloading for really cheap...but it wouldn't work as a drive in my
> PowerBook, for the same reason (the PowerBook wants an ATA-interface
> device). It was actually sold for a DOS PC laptop, and came with some
> icky DOS drivers on a floppy to extend the RAM of the PC (rather than
> treating it as a drive).
>
> In theory, I guess a Newton driver could be written to support an ATA
> disk, and there are enough hackers out there that I wouldn't be half
> surprised if it's been done. Personally, though, I'd rather use the 
> slot
> in the eMate (even though there appears to be two slots, it's really 
> only
> one) for a 802.11 card -- and I know there have been drivers written to
> support those. But then, I left the Newton universe long ago...
>
> Ivan.
> ----------------



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