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-- Happy Hacking Keyboard!!! (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/showthread.php?threadid=3877)

I sure hope that a Happy Hacking Keyboard ( Cradle ) device for Visor can be developed. (see visorcentral news story today w/ links)

And I wonder how quick the development cycle for the current Palm-only device was? Do I have a possible claim on the idea?

see:
http://www.visorcentral.com/visor/d...TML/000015.html

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"Vaya con Visor!"

-john


[This message has been edited by john (edited 11-01-1999).]

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Originally posted by john:
I sure hope that a Happy Hacking Keyboard ( Cradle ) device for Visor can be developed.

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I wrote an e-mail to the people who make the Happy hacking Cradle. They replied that they are holding off on developing a new cradle until they know more about the interfaces for new Palm and Sony PalmOS devices.

A company called Micro Foundry http://www.microfoundry.com/
makes a *VERY promising* product that may work in place of the HHC and outputs both throough an IR port and a serial port.

The company only seems to support WindowsCE, but I think its possible that the dirvers for the Newton keyboard would work either 1) using the serial cradle or 2)the IR sync aplication

I got an e-mail from someone at Micro Foundry
Apparently they are not aware of a driver for PalmOS that would work yet. It doesn't sound like there is any technical barrier, just that they haven't had the time/expertise.

It sounds like the may transmit the characters differently than other serial enabled keyboards/terminals (e.i. Newton, Genovation, or VT100 terminal type connection to a PC)

Terry at Mirco Fountry: Since we use the PS/2 type keyboard layout/character transmission, I would
think it would be a safe bet as to be incompatible with the Newton driver

I wish that someone with enough PalmOS programming experience would get their hands on one of these and test is with current drivers/make one that would work.

The Happy Hacking driver claims to support the standard PS/2 keyboard... maybe it would work with the Micro Foundry product.

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