In a previous message, Victor Rehorst typed vigorously:
>That's not a *newton* driver for the stowaway keyboard... that's a keyboard
>enabled for X11R6 (the windowing system used by most UNIX-like operating
>systems). My guess is that it was linked on that page because something
>similar could be used to interface a Stowaway keyboard to X11, because both
>the Newton keyboard and the Stowaway keyboard are serial devices.
>
>But it ultimately has nothing to do with using a Stowaway with a Newton.
That's the kicker. We need a driver on the Newton so that it can makes
sense of all the gobbledeegook that comes out of the Stowaway. The only
thing I've been able to do so far on the Stowaway project is to get the
Newton to read some of the serial output from the keyboard. The output is
documented on the protocol page:
http://www.splorp.com/newton/stowaway/protocol/
Now, if someone would like to write a driver that translates the Stowaway
protocol to Newton keyboard protocol, we'd be that much closer to cooking
with gas.
g.
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