[NTLK] Suggested Laptop for Newton programming

[Bradley Mattice]

I also second the Pismo just because you'd at least get Airport capability as well as USB. You'd just need a Keyspan adapter for the serial to USB connection. 

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> On Mar 16, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Lord Groundhog <LordGroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ~~~ On 2014/03/16 17:13, Daniel Coughlin at cidisguise at gmail.com wrote ~~~
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>> Though I am by no means an expert on Newton software development, I would
>> think the Wallstreet/PDQ series G3s would work well. They are common, cheap,
>> well-built, have built-in support for DVD drives, floppies, and 32-bit Cardbus
>> for USB and the like along with built-in Ethernet while retaining the old
>> serial and IrDA ports that you are indicating you need. The 14" models have
>> rather nice displays as well.
> Holy run-on sentence, Batman!
> In any case, I
>> hope you find what you're looking for. I don't want to have stopped silently
>> lurking on the list for nothing.
> Apologies for the excessive quote, my Windows
>> Phone doesn't let me edit it. (grumbles)
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> I'm no expert on Newton software development either, but as owner of 5
> still-in-use Firewire Pismos I'd say, if you're going for a Wallstreet you
> may as well go the whole hog and get a Pismo.  The way I evaluate hardware,
> I'd call the Pismo the ultimate laptop for design and execution, as far as
> users are concerned.  I'll stop there; the last time I wrote to someone
> about the Pismo it turned into a small article that wouldn't have looked out
> of place as a review in MacPlus, back in 2000.  But trust me, as laptops go
> they're the business.  In fact, in my (very personal and perhaps eccentric)
> opinion they're the second-best computer ever made by anyone, right behind
> the Newton.  
> 
> 
> Just my 0.02 of copper in whatever currency you prefer.
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> Shalom, 
> 
> Christian 
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