RE: reply: NTLK Alternate Cover for MP2x00?

From: Michael Neville (nevillem@ithaca.net)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 12:12:47 EST


Also, why is there apparently 3 positions for the lid to hinge to the unit.
I'm sure these were for other uses, but does anyone have a clue?

-Michael Neville

-----Original Message-----
From: RobertRuff@aol.com [mailto:RobertRuff@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 10:23 AM
To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
Subject: Re: reply: NTLK Alternate Cover for MP2x00?

  I believe that you have stumbled onto an unimplemented design feature that
was planned for future Newts.

RobertRuff

In a message dated 3/18/00 2:27:08 PM, doppler@mac.com writes:

<< great idea, rick, but who would make new hardware for newton? i guess
this
is far too complicated. there is a small - 15mm - rectangular opening just
where the hinge is supposed to be (close to the power button), though, so
technically, that would have been possible i think.

>
> Proposal: What I'd like to see is a membrane keyboard that directly
attaches
> to the MP2x00 as a lid. I use my detachable keyboard a -lot- because I
like
> writing fiction, and the Newton lets me do it wherever I am. A keyboard
> built-into the lid would be an excellent convenience.

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