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Old 05-13-2009, 08:55 PM
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back to retro, anyone remembers Newton?






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Old 05-13-2009, 09:06 PM
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Yes, I also have one, but only a Newton 120 and it's defective too.

Here is a link which directs to a website hosted on a C64 server.

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Old 05-13-2009, 09:12 PM
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One of the living legends of Newton community lives near Hamburg/Germany, he used to service mine back in the day when I was using it 24/7. Mine still works ok, I used to abuse the backlight (must have replaced it a couple of times).

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Old 05-13-2009, 10:51 PM
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I still got the original one bought in '94. Got it out 3 month ago and was still impresst by the concept, even though the first one was too slow and not much of use in daily life.
Realy had a Star Trek feel to it in '94.
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Old 05-14-2009, 12:04 AM
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Realy had a Star Trek feel to it in '94.
ditto,

I got mine (MP2100) in '97 when handwriting recognition was working fine. I still find Larry Yeager's work impressive, I'm a tablet-type and this technology still lives under MacOS X's Ink.

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Old 05-14-2009, 12:24 AM
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Great!
A. Does it still exist in OS X 10.5?
B. Are there any OSx86 compatable input devices?
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Old 05-14-2009, 04:58 PM
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Great!
A. Does it still exist in OS X 10.5?
oh yeah!

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B. Are there any OSx86 compatable input devices?
I guess any MacOS-compatible wacom would play nice with the hacks (unless there're generic usb issues on a particular mobo). Here's the Wireless model working as it should on my hack:

wacom.jpg

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Old 05-14-2009, 08:59 PM
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Very interesting, thanks.
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Old 05-15-2009, 06:28 PM
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Whoops, just forgot: I set up a folder with some Amiga modules some time ago. They're converted to MP3 format, icnluding correct tags and covers for iTunes. Here you go.

2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interfaceBehringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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Old 02-02-2010, 04:39 PM
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What about the Apple IIe? Now thats an awesome machine...



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