A Collection of Useful (?) Stuff

Newton Stuff

Newton Infra-red FAQ

A growing source of information on the Newton's IR communications abilities. Any submissions gratefully received ...

Newton Infra-red Beaming Protocol

All (at least to my knowledge?) Newton devices support point-to-point infrared beaming as a means of communication between Newtons, and sometimes other devices.

Newton Interconnect Port Specifications

New Newtons, the MessagePad 2000 and the eMate 300, have a new 26 pin connector replacing the Apple standard 8 pin miniDIN serial port on previous devices.

NewtonScript Virtual Machine ByteCode

NewtonScript (the language used by Newton devices) is an interpreted language executed by a virtual machine in a similar fashion to Smalltalk or Java. This is the definition of those bytecodes.

Sharp's Wizard Presentation protocol

Sharp's Wizard organisers (and also Apple Newton's) use a proprietry presentation layer protocol for transferring data. This is an attempt to document that protocol, as reverse-engineered from the Apple implementation.

Configuring PPP from Linux to your Newton

The Newton Internet Enabler supports direct serial links. This is a step by step guide to configuring your Linux box and your Newton for a direct PPP connection.

Description of my lab's Newton IR Network

Using the Newton's inbuilt support for AppleTalk and the Photonics Cooperative IR transceivers, we have mobile Internet access from many rooms in the labs. This is how it works.

Some doc on Digital's VRC21-Hx monitor

I tried to find this on the web once. Nothing. Try this ...

Notes on setting up Ethernet and TCP/IP for Helios

Helios is a cool distributed operating system which runs on (amongst other things) the Inmos Transputer. Sadly, the company which wrote it is went bust, but they made the final release freely available as they went down. The available documentation is fairly sparse, however, and setting up the Ethernet and TCP/IP servers can be tricky. Here's some notes on how I got mine working.