On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 02:28 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 01:54 PM, Andrew C. Rempt wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am brand new to the Newton world, having recently bought a very
>> nice Newton 130. I've been lurking this list since the 130 arrived,
>> and I have found it to be very helpful. Now here's my problem.
>>
>> I can't get the Newt to connect with my Mac. I bought a generic
>> serial cable, and I dowloaded and installed NBU 1.0, but when I try
>> to initialize the connection on the 130, it does the barber pole and
>> tells me that there was no response.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, there is nothing using the Mac's serial port,
>> so I'm at a loss here. I have no idea how to trouble shoot this, so I
>> would appreciate any help.
>>
>> I'm using a Wallstreet II PowerBook running 9.0.4, by the way.
>>
>> Also, is there anyway to mount a Newton formatted flash RAM on a Mac,
>> so I can just drag packages over?
>>
>
> Sorry to say, but your cable must not be a real serial cable. You need
> to make sure it's labeled as a serial cable, unless you didn't select
> serial on your Newton to initiate the connection, but I doubt it. Make
> sure you first launch NBU on your Mac. Check the settings. One thing you
> could try would be to select "AppleTalk". AppleTalk can work over a
> serial cable and would provide much faster speeds (230K bits) as opposed
> to serial (57.6 Kbits). Then, on your 130, launch the "Dock"
> application. Make sure you select "AppleTalk" for "Connect via". Then,
> tap "Connect to" and select "Other computer". A little window should pop
> up and you should see your Macintosh's name there (the name you gave in
> the File Sharing control panel). If you can't see anything there, then
> most likely you don't have the right cable, as this works right out of
> the box.
One thing I forgot to mention if you do the AppleTalk test: make sure
that AppleTalk is set to use LocalTalk, not Ethernet. You can check this
by opening the "AppleTalk" control panel.
-Laurent.
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