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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:49 ADT
Simon Spero (ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:41:18 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Ryan Lackey wrote:
> For a laptop, one would generally mount the i-button reader on the
> *outside* of the case (I've got one velcroed to the front side of mine, with
> a shortened able feeding data to the computer). The idea is to be able
> to have brief momentary contact, or retained contact, at will. Putting
> it *inside* would not work very well.
I found the datasheet on www.dalsemi.com; kind of makes me a little
nervous as to how well it would stand up to abuse, especially the cabling.
strange given how robust the ring looked (seemed mocha proof :-)
http://www.dalsemi.com/DocControl/PDFs/1416d.pdf
What might be a neat form factor for this hardware might be a key (you
could leave the button in the keyring like it is now, , and move the
contacts out to the tip of a fake key)
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:49 ADT