From: Eckhart Köppen (eck1001_at_gmx.net)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 22:44:12 PDT
On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 05:32 AM, Karl and Kathleen wrote:
> I was at Comp USA and saw a PCMCIA card with USB ports for a laptop.
> Is there any chance that one of these could be coaxed to work in a
> Newt?
Only if it is a PCMCIA Type II card. CardBus cards will never work with
the Newton. The main difference between Type II and CardBus is that Type
II is more or less an extension of the old ISA bus whereas CardBus is
based on PCI.
> Could it be used to print to some modern printers?
I doubt that there are any Type II USB cards. Even if there would be
some, writing a USB driver is way too much work. For any driver-related
development, you can take Linux as a nice example, both for how much
time it took to get it implemented and for how complex the
implementation is.
Eckhart
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