On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 09:19 AM, Jon Glass wrote:
> and I was indeed wrong. The only similarity is in the key
> layout and size. Actually, they may be similar, in that they use two
> plastic
> sheets with tracings on them, and that depressing the key closes
> circuits to
> send to the device, but I haven't taken the Newton keyboard apart far
> enough
> to confirm that.
Jon,
What we need is for someone to write a serial driver to use the
newt's keyboard with the Duos (or other Apple computers for that
matter :-). I use a happy hacking keyboard
<http://www.pfuca.com/products/products.html> with my iBook and it's
very similar to the newton keyboard in size and key arrangement.
Randy
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