At the BOF last week I was wondering what you would use the extended  
serial support for
besides listening to the wind velocity, but over the weekend I got this  
note, I had forgotten about
those 'extra's phones come with nowadays.

From: Hein Saris <hein at beta9.be>
Date: Sun Nov 2, 2003  2:22:00 AM America/Vancouver
To: John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
Subject: Re: Serial port on OS/X

Well,

The first attempts were very promising.

After minutes, I had already successfully
  - opened the serial port
  - listed the SMS messages on my Phone
  - send a SMS message to my girlfriend
  - read her answer

all by sending AT commands to the phone.

Trying this in Java took me half a day :-)

Next step will be to write a little app to select the serial port, and  
have some gui that shows the received SMS messages, and makes it  
possible to send an SMS to some phone number.

It's a pity Squeak crashes frequently on Panther. I hope this will be  
resolved soon.

Greetings,

Hein.

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