Re: [NTLK] An Idea Regarding the Bootstrap

From: L.W. Brown <LwB_at_mac.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 18:48:36 EDT

my understanding is that ONLY Newts can read their cards - except if
you can do a "raw" bit-dump
this seems to be a very difficult task...

Sent from LwB's iBrick...
;-]

On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Joshua Cearley <joshua.cearley@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just thought of an interesting idea for getting data on to a Newton.
> I was thinking something along the lines of perhaps getting
> OpenEinstein to function with some kind of infrared? (Some laptops
> still have IR, and IR dongles should be cheap nowadays). The theory is
> that you can load notes/etc directly on to NewtonOS through
> OpenEinstein, and then have OpenEinstein "send" the data through IR.
> I'm not quite sure what all would be involved in doing so, but it
> would be an interesting step to bootstrapping. The other thing I've
> been wondering about is if there is a way to perhaps read a Newt on
> memory card from a computer? I haven't tried it yet since my laptop
> with the PCMCIA slot has BSD installed on it right now, but that could
> also be an interesting idea for some people to bootstrap with.
>
> I swear there was one of the PCMCIA cards for the newton that had the
> drivers on the card itself, I just can't remember the name of it (or I
> may have misread it entirely). Just some ideas out there. OpenEinstein
> would still need a ROM, but if it could transmit IR it *might* be
> possible to write a mini-rom that was good enough to run an IR
> transmission? Might be easier to skip OE and do it directly though.
>
> -JC
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