People may laugh and point, but I love my Newton. I love it so much, in fact, that I was quite bummed when I realised there was no way to connect it to my Macbook Pro; Newton Connection Utilities only works on Windows and Classic Mac OS, which the Intel Macs can’t run. I tried using Parallels and Windows XP, but the driver for my USB->Serial adapter consistently crashed XP. So what’s a brother to do….
The answer, it turns out, was Bluetooth. And thanks to Adriano Angelillis and Eckhart Köppen it works perfectly. Adriano has been graciously providing the Newton community an easy way to purchase compatible PCMCIA Bluetooth cards and Eckhart is the mastermind who implemented the Bluetooth protocol stack on the Newton. It’s fast and, so far, very reliable. It amazes me how the Newton community has managed to do such incredible things with such dated hardware. So until next time, Keep It Green. 
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