You can also use youur desktop keyboard to type in
text into your Newton if you connect using NCU. I
have tried this and it works as long as you are not a
very typist.
Walter
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>
> I only use a dongle to connect to the keyboard. I use an EtherLink III LAN
> PC card to connect to my iMac and other Macs on the LAN. For printing I have
> an HP photosmart 1215 with an Ir port; the Newt's HP340 IrDA driver works
> just fine. If you will be making a serial connection to a Mac less than
> three years old you will also need a USB to ADB adapter. If you already have
> an ethernet hub, consider the card. Back-ups are blazingly fast. The cards
> are pretty cheap on eBay, and the software is on UNNA!
>
> Ron
> > Hi All,
> > Can someone explain to me the "dongle" that is used with the 2x00
> > Newtons? Is a dongle necessary in order to make a serial connection to a
> > Mac or can you also use a regular Mac serial cable? What about using the
> > line in or line out is the dongle a necessity here too? Finally, what
> > about this SER-001 adapter that fits inside the Newton is this an
> > adapter that allows the use of the a regular Mac serial cable or is it
> > just preferable because the serial port on the 2x00 is recessed and to
> > access it is difficult and endangers the functionality or the serial
> > port by repeated stress?
> >
> > TIA
> > Steve Stanley
> >
> >
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