>those of you who have a dismantled newton with a badly soldered on
>earphone socket should take a look at the serial port thingy with
>ltc1323cg written on a chip. beside it is another thingy that appears
>to be a socket for a big pile of wires.
>just in case any member of the audience still has any idea of what im
>talking about, ill continue the madness.
That's the misterious "newton internal connector" :-)
There are two serial ports available there, plus (not confirmed) audio
and power pins.
>to the best of my knowledge this is the same pinout as the interconnect
>port so what i want to know is can you stick wires into this and then
>into a minidin-8 serial socket to get an internal serial port now that
>there are no more ser-001s any more?
Nope, the pinout is different and the signals don't have the levels
needed to be useful. That's what the SER-001 does, add an appletalk driver
chip. The document describing this connector is not available as far as I
know.
D.
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