DONGLE DESTROYER

When I bought my Newton, there were no serial adapter in the box. Withou t this little thing, I couldn´t load any new program and was limited to the built-in applications. The same day, I started investigating how to put an internal conector. Do you want to try yourself? Go on!!

• Buy an aerial female MiniDin-8 connector (the ones that go at the end of a cable). Those are better because when you take out the case, they are small enougth to fit inside the Newton.
• Make a drill of the same size of the external border of the connector in the plastic next to the infrared port of your Newton.
• With superglue, fix the connector to the plastic making sure that it´s at the same level so the door can close later.
• The first time, I conected the wires directly over the chip, but it was to fragile for me, opening the newton quite often. This way is much better and easier:
• With 8 cables about 5 cm long (I used those that go inside the arms of records players) make the following conections, maybe you have to scratch the pads a bit with a cutter to see the copper:

• Try to solder the wires in the same direccion so they can fit later inside the newton without bending.

Test all the conections before closing, if it´s not working, maybe there´s a cable not soldered. Try it again. If you don´t like it, you can take al the cables out knowing that everything will be as at the begining, we haven´t touched any chip.

Congratulations, now you can leave the dongle at home!!