Re: [NTLK] CD ROM

I don't believe anyone has directly connected a disk drive such as an
optical media drive or conventional hard drive to a newton. All of
the newton's connections are serial / irda, no USB, no Firewire, no
Scsi. The closest we've come is to use CF/Microdrives via the ATA
Support package.

One would need to find a way to interface the newton with the
external drive - almost assuredly this would have to be a pcmcia card
of some sort, and I don' know of any that would fit the bill. One
would then need drivers for the card, so that the newton, drivers for
controlling the attached drive, and drivers for parsing /
manipulating whatever filesystem is on the attached drive / standard
cd-rom formats.

Too many things we don't have.

On Aug 21, 2006, at 11:06 PM, giorgio razzano wrote:

> I mean a CD rom Drive which isn't connect to a computer, let me say
> an external drive for the newton...
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "Goodwin, Greg P." <GoodwinG@aafes.com>
> To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
> Sent: Monday, 21 August, 2006 3:47:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] CD ROM
>
> I'll start by mentioning that the Newton Connection utilities
> through a PC or Mac give the Newton file access to those systems,
> which would include accessing the CD rom drives on those systems.
> That is always fun. And technically there is VPN access too. :)
>

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