On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Curt Butturff wrote:
> I am looking at possibly picking up a Newton 2100 used and wanted to find
> out a bit more about them. I thought this would probably be the perfect
> place.
Indeed, it probably is :)
> I have a new duel processor Power Mac on the way that uses Jaguar and my
> first question is of course regarding compatibility.
>
> I am a graduate student and among other things I like to download library
> call numbers at home to a PDA before going to the library to review the
> work. So I=92m wondering about the possibility of moving files to and fr=
o for
> this purpose.
The Newton Connection Utilites allow you to move information to and from
the Newton, and even to use your desktop keyboard to enter data onto the
Newton. To connect to OSX 10.2, you'd need a Serial to USB adapter. If
you wanted to use an Ethernet or 802.11 wireless connection, you'd need
the serial adapter to install the necessary drivers first.
> The Power Mac is also coming with Office X and while the ability to synch
> with Entourage would be cool it=92s not the biggest concern as I have a
> limited number of contacts I use anyways. I=92m mainly looking at word
> processor documents.
The 2100 has an optional word processor called Newton Works, which will
import and export Rich Text Format files. Simple, but it works.
There is already an Entourage sync program called Newtourage:
http://delcannsoftware.com/
Also, there is a new Mac sync program being developed called nSync:
http://www.everchanging.com/newton/
In addition, there's a native OSX package installer for serial connections
called NewTen:
http://www.panic.com/~stevenf/index.php?node=3DSoftwareProjects
Keep in mind that most of this requires Classic (OS 9) to be installed,
except for NewTen and nSync (when it is released).
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