Re: [NTLK] Newton Projection Keyboard?

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 19:04:38 PDT


On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Josh Robertson wrote:

> I just saw this company's new product (http://www.canesta.com/) and was
> wondering if it would be possible to make it work for the Newton? I
> think it would unbelievably cool to have this work with a 2000/2100.
> But does anyone on the list know if this would be technically feasible
> and if the signal made by the Apple keyboard is a standard signal or
> something proprietary? But if anyone on the list does produce a
> keyboard for the Newt from this count me in for one!

The Newton keyboard just speaks standard RS232/422 serial. It has its own
protocol and keycodes different from any other keyboard. The protocol has
been reverse-engineered:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010721070258/http://www.logictools.de/newton/keyboard/keyboard.html

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