10 Feb 02:36
proposal
I've been thinking about bluetooth and the M100. It seems to me that the best "achitecture" for mobile net enabled apps would be as follows- 1) M100 with an RS-232 bluetooth dongle (hardware flow control!), and REX of course. 2) a smartphone, with WiFi support 3) optional - a NADSbox with an RS-232 bluetooth dongle 4) a better terminal program for M100, as an option ROM, including XMODEM It is easy to instruct bluetooth to connect to either NADSbox or smartphone.. This can be scripted basically. We know that TPDD protocol runs well on bluetooth now. Also, a version of Desklink could be made for Blackberry. Then, all we are doing is writing apps for Blackberry, to adapt text email, bulletin board, downloads etc. I think this would do it all, and avoid any further custom hardware. The Blackberry and NADSbox can sit out of sight, and all you'd need is an RS-232 Bluetooth dongle on the M100.
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