From: Gerstein, Sam (Sam.Gerstein_at_Streamserve.Com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 11:34:57 PDT
Hi Donald,
Yeah, I'd love to do that too, but I've never seen any software that
supports the second serial port. Does anybody on the list know of
something? The other consideration is that the second serial port has no
line driver, so you'd have to provide that yourself.
As for the other lines, yeah, go for it- people have indeed wired up audio.
I'm not sure anyone's used the power lines, but the specs say that you can
indeed charge the batteries via the power in (don't confuse with power out).
/Sam
here's the spec:
http://www.unna.org/unna/development/documentation/interconnect/newton_i.pdf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Wilson [mailto:marchie_at_mac.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 2:24 PM
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: [NTLK] 2 serial port dongle?
>
>
>
> I'm not the MOST electronically inclined, but I have this question:
>
> From what I've read about The Dongle and the IC port on the
> 2x00 Newts, the IC port can ope3rate 2 serial ports.
>
> So if I get a couple extra dongles, and remove the IC
> connector from them, can I wire in 2 serial ports according
> to the pinouts, and have a larger dongle with, say, a MiniDin
> and a DB9 port?
>
> And what about Power? Audio? I've read all the sites about
> Audio dongles, and I'm pretty durn sure that my dad and I can
> pull that off... why not a BIG dongle, that I just never take
> out, with all the ports?
>
> ~Donald
>
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