Re: Laptop //c

["julian814" <julian814@hotmail.com>]

SbM wrote:
> julian814 <julian814@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Okay, if I understand correctly, I need linear flash to expand the
> > memory inside the eMate, right? I've seen a site that sells one of
> > those memory upgrade cards, but the darned thing costs $105 by itself,
> > so that would ruin my plan to keep the price of this thing under $100
> > or so.
>
> You could try and contact the webmaster of http://www.pilet.net. He
> lives in France, OK, but he had cheap flash cards for sale recently.

Cheap is good, but will they work in my eMate?


>
> > I like the idea of being able to use the PC card slot as a memory
> > storage device, but I was hoping to use that slot for a wifi card, so I
> > can get it on the internet. Then again, the best I'd be able to hope
> > for with the eMate is text only web use,
>
> I've never tried it myself, but AFAIK you can get graphic web rendering
> on a Newton. After all, it's got a real nice looking GUI.
> Bluetooth works great, too...

Now that I think about it, I remember reading about a web browser
called Newt's Cape. Not exactly the latest in software, but still
interesting.

>
> > so maybe I'd be better off
> > with the extra memory. Definitely interested in hearing more about the
> > driver that would let me use a PC card adapted compact flash.
>
> This driver is by Paul Guyot, author of the Einstein emulator
> (<http://www.kallisys.com/newton/ata/en>). He knows more about Newtons
> than anyone I've ever met.

He's the guy who told me that the eMate would be too slow to run an
Apple //c emulator.

>
> You can also find very knowledgeable people on the NewtonTalk mailing
> list : <http://www.newtontalk.net/>

Been there already. No one there ever heard of Two in Hand. The did
direct me to www.unna.org which happens to have quite a bit of
information and software on Newton based devices, including the eMate.


Ralph Glatt