Comments on: Help me ID this device!

By: phooky

phooky — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:49:00 +0000

Wow, thanks for all your replies! It does indeed look like a Lubbock dev board. Work and out-of-town guests are keeping me pretty busy, but I’ll see if I can try to power this sucker up by the end of the week.

By: lamerka

lamerka — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:44:45 +0000

Looks pretty same:

http://www.koansoftware.com/en/prd_wince.htm

By: Glen Raphael

Glen Raphael — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:46:10 +0000

I did a little more research into the different flavors of Newton boards. The most common Newton prototype in a similar format was called a Bun Warmer but that had the display flat on the board with an identifiable area for the silkscreen buttons. Despite being a big sprawling board, it had identifiably Newton-like elements.

I believe Jim is correct that this thing was a “Lubbock”. A testbed for StrongARM and similar chips. We did use some Lubbock boards at Apple while developing the later Newton models (circa 1997), but yours is a more recent version than the one I saw. Due to – as noted – both the USB and the SA1110.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:07:12 +0000

the Newton didn’t have USB. Pretty sure USb wasn’t even close to standardized when the Newton was being developed.

This board has USB Host and Client ports. Ergo, not a Newton.

By: JBHemlock

JBHemlock — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:22:44 +0000

I don’t think it’s a Newton dev board, as you wouldn’t see a usb port on one of those. It does look like some sort of dev board, though…

By: Sonny Hung

Sonny Hung — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:44:33 +0000

Hi Phooky,

Anyway, can I get to see this in person?
Love to take a few shots of my own and place it up on my Flickr site if you’d allow it.
I’m into Newtons and would appreciate it if it were possible. Especially since it’s a Newton I’m in the NYC area in case.

By: Zeek

Zeek — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:17:41 +0000

Its just a SA1110 dev board. Intel made several StrongARM dev boards for SA1110, PXA255 and PXA27x in that same form factor. I have a PXA27x version sitting around and I have worked with the SA1110 and PXA255 version as well.

By: z

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:57:12 +0000

It’s not a Newton, at least not with USB on board.

By: Jan Ciger

Jan Ciger — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:09:48 +0000

It cannot be a Newton devel board. Newton was developed and sold around 1993. This board has USB ports – USB came to be only around 1996. Also the SA1110 CPU was used in things like Jornada or iPaqs, Newton predates that by a good deal.

So it is something more modern – the first commenter can be spot on.

By: Zero

Zero — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:20:30 +0000

Have you tried turning it one and posting a picture?????