[NTLK] NewtonSales usb

[Paul Grothaus]

I wasn't trying to initiate a "slagging Ferdi" game, just reporting my experience with him and his USB-001.  It's too bad because I was also interested in his backlight upgrade and replacement emate cable but "fool me once ...".  Luckily, I still have the dongle and a working Powerbook 160 for backups, etc.  I use a wifi and a bluetooth card for all other connections to my modern macs. 

I had one of the original SER-001 boards from PCBMan. It was awesome and worked for over 10 years. I loved not having to deal with the dongle. Then one day, as I inserted the cable, the connector broke off the board and no more joy. I wish David was still around as he was a reliable source of accessories and hardware knowledge.

Paul

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On Aug 30, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Grant Hutchinson <grant at splorp.com> wrote:

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> On 2014-08-29, at 6:15 PM, Andrei Chichak wrote:
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>> Yes, a serial port board was produced by the original guy.
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> The "original guy" was David "PCBMan" Humphreys.
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> Along with the SER-001, he also produced a kickass eMate memory upgrade.
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> <https://web.archive.org/web/20020603073723/http://mrpcbman.tripod.com/SER-001.htm>
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20041011004658/http://mrpcbman.tripod.com/EM300.htm>
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> Here are some thoughts that David posted back in 2008 about the overclocking upgrade being sold by "he who shall remain nameless".
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> http://marc.info/?l=newtontalk&m=122080799327476&w=2
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