[NTLK] Wired article

[Matthias Melcher]

Someone surely has the Cirrus documentation sitting in an old moving box. I really wish I would have a copy, so I can finally implement the serial port driver. Reversing this is quite a pain, and I am stuck in a dead end right now.

> On Feb 11, 2017, at 3:56 PM, Jeff Sheldon <jeffsheldon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just looked at Walter's collection online--but haven't seen Frank's shed.  At one point I was hemorrhaging Newton 2000s to the point of giving them as gifts to friends. Of everything I bought since 1994, my favorite is the complete array of Newton developers manuals.  
> 
> The big disappointment is that I could never get the Voyager Chipset manual. I had been in contact with an engineer at Cirrus Logic and that dead-ended. And the printing company only had the manual left on tape backup, but the machine was no longer operating in a way they could easily restore the print.  I finally resorted to stripping away the chip casings and took some photos with a microscope, for fun, but had always hoped to reconfigure the 2x00 footprint by designing a custom PCB and would have liked to have had those specs. 
> 
> 
> -Jeff
> 
>> On Feb 7, 2017, at 19:05, NewtonTalk <newtontalk at pda-soft.de> wrote:
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>> https://www.wired.com/2013/08/the-newton-lives/
>> 
>> Thanks for this link. I wasn't aware of this article. There's but one thing
>> that might be subject to discussion:
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>>> Outside of Grant Hutchinson's massive Newton collection, the most notable
>> stash belongs to former Apple man Walter Smith.
>> 
>> Whoever wrote this can't possibly have seen my shed's upper floor...
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
>> -- Newton software and hardware at http://www.pda-soft.de
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