Re: Other IR devices (was: Re: 1400 battery and infrared)

2002-12-10 Thread Clark Martin
At 5:32 PM -0600 12/9/2002, aly wrote: >Yes, I've often wondered if the newer Macs (G4 and all that) are compatible >with the IR features of things like Palm units (with the Palm software >installed, of course). Palm doesn't support IR transfer for my 1400cs, or >so they said (I have Palm III serie

Re: Other IR devices (was: Re: 1400 battery and infrared)

2002-12-10 Thread Joost van de Griek
On 2002-12-10 01:14, "Andrew Kershaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I don't know why Apple ever bothered developing IRTalk anyway. Because they wanted to include IR connectivity in their PowerBooks. IrDA didn't exist, simple because IR was new to notebooks, and Apple had their standard netw

Other IR devices (was: Re: 1400 battery and infrared)

2002-12-09 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Yeah, I don't know why Apple ever bothered developing IRTalk anyway. It ONLY works with other 190/5300/1400/2400/3400/Kanga/Wallstreets or with the Farallon serial port IR-LocalTalk transceiver. Besides, it's a terrible idea for networking... LocalTalk (same speed as IRTalk, btw) is far more

Other IR devices (was: Re: 1400 battery and infrared)

2002-12-09 Thread aly
Yes, I've often wondered if the newer Macs (G4 and all that) are compatible with the IR features of things like Palm units (with the Palm software installed, of course). Palm doesn't support IR transfer for my 1400cs, or so they said (I have Palm III series units anyway -- just call me the retro lo