>This isn't really classic, but since the Newton is out of production,
>I thought someone might be interested in a shrinkwrapped modem for
>the Newton for $8 at a thrift store. I think it might get hard to get
>one from Apple...
Well, that's not a bad price... But IIRC, the Newton modem wasn't anything
to get excited over. Something like 9600 or 2400, I forget. I think there
were a few PCMCIA card modems that worked with the Newton line, and of
course you can plug in a normal modem to the serial port on the side. Now,
the parallel printer interface is interesting. Plug it into the serial
port, goes to a little box with a Centronics connector on the other side,
and had something inside that loads the needed drivers into the Newt. Has
several different drivers depending on what type of printer it is, works
with any generic printer with the normal modes(Epson emulation and some
other stuff, I don't remember. been a while since I plugged it in).
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