2) IR Port. The PB 1400 has this IR port which, as far as I can figure out, is basically good for not a whole lot. But, I was wondering if my Palm V would be able to communicate with my PB 1400 through its IR port. Is this possible? If anyone has done this before, can you tell me how to do it?
No.
The 1400's IR port will only do "IRTalk" (AppleTalk over Infrared - very similar to LocalTalk). It will only communicate with the PowerBook 190 (with the IR option), 5300, 1400, 2400, 3400, Kanga G3, and Wallstreet G3. It will also communicate with a Farallon AirDock IRTalk-to-LocalTalk-adapter equipped Mac.
It will NOT talk to a Palm (or clone thereof), iMac, Performa/Quadra/LC 6x0 series, 62/63/64/65xxx series, 5xx series all-in-one, 52/53/54/5500 series all-in-one, MacTV, Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh or G3 all-in-one. Of all those Macs besides the iMac, the IR port is used for a remote control, not for networking. The iMac (and all IR-equipped Palms and other handhelds) uses the IrDA infrared protocol. The 1400 cannot do IrDA.
The 2400, 3400, and all later PowerBooks can do IrDA. All PowerBooks after the Wallstreet G3 series cannot do IRTalk.
So, IRTalk is more or less useless (though it has gotten me out of a bind before).
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