Re: [NTLK] newtontalk Digest V2 #402

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 01:53:05 EDT

on 29/05/02 18:19, Shawn McBride at shawnmcbride_at_mac.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I am Shawn McBride, I am new to the Newton. I have a Newt 130 with
> little to no software on it. I also have a Mac G-3 power book Bronze.
> How do I connect one to the other and transfer data? I also have a 32
> megabite card for my Newt, however when I insert the card into my G-3
> under OS9 it just says its ram and wont let me open it or load anything
> on it. I would really like to solve this problem, but I dont know
> anything about codes and such. I just want to install some software. Any
> help would be more than I could find.

Shawn,

You might want to first read the FAQ at <http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/>.

To give you short answers to your questions, to transfer stuff to your
Newton, synchronize it or export information to your computer, you will need
to use the application "Newton Connection Utilities" version 1.0 for
Macintosh that you will find at
<http://www.unna.org/unna/apple/connection_utils/ForMac/NewtonConnectionUtil
ities/>. You have the choice of 1 single archive or a 3 segments archive
that you can join using Stuffit. If you have a fast connection to the
internet, I suggest you download the single archive.

Then, since you mention you're using a Lombard (bronze) PowerBook, it means
it doesn't have any serial port. NCU can only connect through serial or
AppleTalk. In your case, since you don't have a serial port on your Lombard,
you don't have AppleTalk over LocalTalk, but only AppleTalk over Ethernet.
The problem here is that the 130 cannot connect using AppleTalk over
Ethernet. So, your only solution will be to get a Serial to USB adapter,
such as the one made by Belkin.

Finally, you can't mount your PCMCIA card that you used with your Newton on
your PowerBook. If I can call it like this, the "file system" on the Newton
is completely different than the one on the Mac OS, and the Mac OS cannot
read it, nor Windows from MS.

-Laurent. 

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