>In any case, I think I would prefer the larger square one.
This depends entirely on what you want the device to do. The larger
square one is a B connector and it lives on a slave (peripheral)
device. You would not get to plug in a Flash drive.
>BTW, where, exactly, will the "driver" software be located--so that
>you can plug in the Newton to a modern machine? on the computer or on
>the Newton?
On my board, the driver is on the modern machine end. Again, the
Newton is then a slave and you cannot plug in things like Flash
drives, keyboards, cameras ...
>In other words, how will the computer see the Newton, and how will the
>computer see the computer? Or will there be driver software on the pcb
>so that the Newton sees serial and the computer sees USB? How will
>this work software-wise? Thanks
On my board, the computer sees the newton as a serial port.
Iff the Newton was turned into a master (host, hub), the driver would
live on the Newton, you would have to determine what peripherals you
wanted to plug in and write drivers for them, you won't be able to
use it to dock/sync since you would be talking host to host, AND the
Newton would have to be able to supply 500mA at 5V or 2.5 Watts. That
will chew into your battery life.
Andrei
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