Glad to see you back David, your expertise is certainly a benefit to the
Newton community. As for Sam's suggestion, I think it would be awesome to
have 2 serial ports, makes me think even more seriously about getting an
ser-001.
Andre
on 11/26/01 11:38 AM, Gerstein, Sam at Sam.Gerstein_at_StreamServe.com wrote:
>
> David Humphreys wrote:
>> I am also experimenting with a method of changing the clock
>> speed, on the fly, to facilitate serial comms. Basically,
>> the clock will automatically switch to 'normal' speed for
>> the duration of the comms, then revert back to 'turbo' without
>> user intervention. The details have yet to be worked out.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this would mean removing the crystal from the
>> main logic board and soldering wires to various points.
>> Piece of cake for Dr. Newton etc. but a problem for the
>> average user.
>>
>> I really like the idea of making just one board. So, perhaps
>> I could make an SER-001 with the additional circuitry not populated.
>> It would work just as all the others out there. Or I could
>> populate fully and call it an SER-001+.
>>
>> Please, let me know what you think.
>
> Glad you're back-
> I think what you describe above sounds great! If you can manufacture just
> one board and selectively populate it, that seems ideal- but I'm not totally
> clear on what you're proposing to include. Would this be the equivalent of
> a pixsolution accelerator integrated into the SER-001, or just the switching
> circuitry to ask the accelerator to slow down as necessary?
> While we're on the subject of new designs, what do you think about adding
> the ability to use the second serial port? Perhaps the port could be made
> software selectable (I'd be thrilled to lend my own programming skills to
> such a project, though it would take some getting up to speed on low level
> Newton development =). I expect that if it were possible at all, getting
> NewtOS to talk to the keyboard over the second port would require some
> serious hacking- does anyone have experience/info on this? My thinking is
> that it'd be really cool to be able to use the Newton as a serial terminal,
> with keyboard and all.
> BTW, is the pinout for the modem header publicly available anywhere?
> -Sam
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