I seem to recall a few years ago that someone was going to make Aluminium or
Titanium cases for the Newt (2X00 only). He was trying to get pre orders if I
remember correctly. Anyway he would be a good place to start if he already has a
mold or the case ... or the guys that did the "frozen Newton project" he must have a
mould that could be modified. Anyone else remember this?
Rui
John Skinner wrote:
> Now there is some real discussion going on here!
> Grant this is THE end all solution to our problems. Unfortunately, this requires
> a more permanent modification to the Newton's hardware for the average user. It
> would be a lot of work for David to have to receive each person's Newton, open it
> up, take out the NIC, solder on the new ports and cut the holes in the Newton's
> case.
>
> I just had an idea!!
> I wonder what the possibilities would be of making a mold of the outer shell of
> the Newton case. We could create a new shell with the "holes" for these new jacks
> in all the right places! Then we could even offer them in different colors too
> (die hards wouldn't want to give up the green though!)
>
> "Grant [Still Crazy After] Hutchinson" wrote:
>
> > What if we got rid of the
> > whole interconnect port (which gets obsoleted by the SER-001 anyway...)
> > in return for a row of more useful mini-DIN and audio jacks? The last
> > thing we want is another dongle.
>
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