[NTLK] News from the Weird ROM board

[Greg G.]

This news and the images were quite awesome!  :)


On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Frank Gruendel wrote:

> The Incredible Matthias has extracted the images from the my ROM  
> board and
> sent them my way, along with a set of images from an original 2x00 ROM
> board. I took the liberty to package them in a HTML structure for  
> easier
> comparison. This, my friends, is teamwork at its best...
>
> As of 30 seconds ago you will find said teamwork's result here:
>
>
> <http://www.pda-soft.de/common/img/hardware/2x00/WeirdRomBoard/ 
> 2x00RomBoardI
> mages/1_2x00.html> (2x00 ROM board)
>
> <http://www.pda-soft.de/common/img/hardware/2x00/WeirdRomBoard/ 
> WeirdRomBoard
> Images/1_WeirdRomBoard.html> (My ROM board)
>
> One thing that attracts attention at first sight is the fact that  
> there
> aren't any greyscale images in my ROM board. This supports my  
> theory that
> the first 2x00 was intended to be basically a 130 with Newton OS  
> 2.1 and
> probably some hardware improvements, like e. g. slots for two  
> PCMCIA cards.
> Which brings me to my second interesting finding. Please have a  
> look at
>
>
> <http://www.pda-soft.de/common/img/hardware/2x00/WeirdRomBoard/ 
> 2x00RomBoardI
> mages/IMG_0056CAFC.bmp>
>
> vs.
>
>
> <http://www.pda-soft.de/common/img/hardware/2x00/WeirdRomBoard/ 
> WeirdRomBoard
> Images/IMG_00556418.bmp>
>
> and
>
>
> <http://www.pda-soft.de/common/img/hardware/2x00/WeirdRomBoard/ 
> 2x00RomBoardI
> mages/IMG_0056D57C.bmp>
>
> vs.
>
>
> <http://www.pda-soft.de/common/img/hardware/2x00/WeirdRomBoard/ 
> WeirdRomBoard
> Images/IMG_00556734.bmp>
>
> This makes me believe that the first 2x00 was intended to have two  
> card
> slots located side by side at the top of the Newton. Back to the  
> roots. This
> was the position of the OMP's and MP100's card slot.
>
> Cheers
>
> Frank
>
> -- Newton software and hardware at http://www.pda-soft.de
>
>
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