From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Sat Nov 08 2003 - 07:01:20 PST
>From: Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net>
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] membrane keyboards on the screen door
>
>Eric Schneck wrote:
>
> >> From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
> >>
> >> There is a plastic knockout right by the seam between the case halves
> >> near the power switch. Presumably this was for some kind of keyboard or
> >> buttons that would be integrated into the screen door.
> >
> >
> > I was thinking that someone could attach something like this inside the
> > existing screen door on the 2x00:
> >
> > http://www.kingley.com/cpk.htm
>
>Yeah, that would be cool. Active Surplus in Toronto has lots of these kind
>of things lying around, I should look when I go there later tonight.
Hmh, the very implications of it! Imagine a snap-on keypad device that'd
plug into serial plus a driver for it...
...then all we'd need would be some neat games ported over! *stoopidly
grinning* After all, even MP 130 has more CPU-bang than a Gameboy!
Say, this makes me wonder...
- is there any way to rotate the screen display not clockwise, as per
Rotate, but rather *counterclockwise* (and maybe even automatically w/
auto-rotate when keypad plugs in)?
That would be neat, because then MP 130-folks could be right handed and
still use the keypad happily, and MP 2xk people would have the whole keypad
right in front
of them.
Oh boy. And now - say that weren't a keypad, but a complete keyboard with
navigation toggle!? A thin membrane 'board glued/stapled/welded/screwed or
whatevered to the inside of a lid... Or the outside, and to use it, you'd
just attach the lid upside down to your Newton.
What do you folks think of this?
Cheers,
DJV.
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