[NTLK] NewtCOM Dongle: Weekend Update

Matthias Melcher m.melcher at robowerk.de
Mon Jun 16 02:18:16 PDT 2025



> On 15. Jun 2025, at 21:31, Grant Hutchinson <splorp at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> “Attached are a decade old pictures of a finished, unpublished product. It used both the serial connections available through the interconnect port. It was just half a inch longer than [my previous] Newton USB Dongle. Feel free to use the pictures as you like. A friend at the time gently developed customized
> utilities. These made possible to connect a keyboard or sync a backup over the secondary external serial port.”
> 
> The photos aren’t great, but here’s a link to what the prototype looked like:
> 
> https://splo.me/bx

Ah, thanks very much Grant. I don't remember ever seeing this, but I still may have picked up that name subconsciously. 

Does anyone have an idea for a new name?

 - Matthias


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