From: Matthew Atkinson (matkinsonmp2k_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 20 2004 - 17:41:17 PDT
Woah! WAY over my head... :^) I'm not the sharpest
tool in the shed...
Ok, so as I understand thus far, there's nothing
PHYSICALLY that won't allow this - it's just a matter
of getting the 'trons to flow correctly. Not that
that's easy, but it's a start.
I'd love to be able to hook into my existing USB
printer instead of finding an 8-pin serial one (which
I did, but it's the PRINCIPLE, man!). Or be able to
partition my 60GB external drive and store some Newt
packages so I can access them instead of having to go
through my iBook and NCU. Or use the Newt to play
tunes directly off an iPod via FW. Crazy? Maybe, but
I think it's cooler than hell that we've got Bluetooth
and ATA support (thanks Eckhart and Paul!), even
though I'll probably never use them.
I think it'd give our "dying" platform some more legs,
thereby exponentially increasing Newtonlust.
Matthew
--- Jim Witte <jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us> wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2004, at 9:57 AM, Matthew Atkinson wrote:
> > Just thinking out loud here...
> > Using Paul's ATA driver, would it be possible to
> use
> > one of those USB or Firewire PCMCIA cards to add
> those
>
> If such a beast can be found that isn't CardBus
> (32 or maybe 64-bit
> data bus, among other things), then probably.
> Although I doubt the ATA
> driver would be of much use - maybe using the lowest
> layer to do the
> TCardHandler transport, but that would most likely
> be just as hard as
> writing a specialized TCardHandler from scratch.
>
> Jim
>
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