Ahh, the mysteries of the Interconnect port :)
Basically, the general idea behind it was to eventually make a desktop
docking station that would have ports for all the connections that the
Interconnect port has in it, which are:
-serial port 0 (the one that the dongle interfaces with)
-serial port 3 (unusable in its current state, needs a serial driver chip)
-audio in
-audio out
-+5V power out, for powering external devices
-power in to charge the batteries
-and a pin to 'wake' the Newton when you plug in a device (a power switch,
basicially)
All these specs are on UNNA:
http://www.unna.org/unna/development/documentation/interconnect/
If you look at WinCE devices from the same era (1996-1998), you'll see that
they all had this idea in mind as well: a proprietary dock connector and a
desktop dock that the device sat in.
But of course, Apple canned it, so nothing cool was done with it. The
stop-gap was to ship the serial dongle with every 2x00 so that everyone's
serial cables would still work.
-- Victor
Original Message:
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From: L vRooy ara_at_dwaf.pwv.gov.za
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 13:01:06 +0200
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Dropping the Newt, was: ...
And yes, I did drop my 130, and couldn't revive it since; not even with the=3D
excellent help from Johannes Wolf and Frank Gruendel, to name just two; was=3D
forced to replace it with an UG MP2000 (and what an upgrade from a 130 it=3D
was!), and am wondering now what was the original intention of the=3D
Interconnect port if you have to stick a dongle into it??
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