Re: [NTLK] Keyboard Conversion

From: Daniel Padilla (dproldan_at_telefonica.net)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 08:27:12 PST


  The palm portable keyboard needs a couple of actions to start working
    First, it needs to be powered. And then, the handshake pin needs to be
raised, lowered and raised again..
    When extracting power from a serial port, you usually get it from the
handshaking pins of the computer. But the regular newton serial port has
both handshaking signals combined at the HSKo pin. And I had to use that pin
for for handshaking. So I got the power from the TDX+ pin.

    D.
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Very nice. Any idea why TDX+ (pin 6) was used instead of TDX (pin 3)? It
might make it a little tough for those who have interconnect->DB9
cables. Is it the same for the newton keyboard?

/Damien

At 14:10 18-02-2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Try it again. It still works for me :-)
>
>At 06:31 18/02/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Andy:
> >Thanks for the link, it sound like just what I need. Unfortunately, it
> >is broken.
>
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