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From: blk@mitre.org (Brian L. Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Best hardware for portable writing
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:35:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: vanity.BLK.92Dec14113535
Distribution: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: The MITRE Corp. Bedford, MA


I hope I can stir up a few opinions on this.  I have a slightly
different list of requirements for a laptop/palmtop than most posters
I've seen on this group.  I want a portable writing station.

Priorities:
	1) Small and light.  I've found that six pounds is too much, I
revert to using pen and paper when I go out.  Five pounds is still
high, I think that 1-4.5 lbs is the range I want.
	2) Good keyboard.  I have to touch type, altho a chording
keyboard is a possibility.
	3) Good editor.  This actually spins off into a few reqts that
aren't firm, such as 80x24 or better screen, DOS compatible, built in
programs. 
	4) Ability to handle 100K of text.  
	5) EZ communications to a desktop machine.  A serial comm port
that has to plug in and talk to a modem program, then upload and get
converted to standard ASCII, is minimal but just barely adequate.  
	6) Cheap.  It may get lost or broken, and I can't justify
large expense.  I think $800 tops, so Gateway Handbook is out.
	7) Good battery life.  I really don't want to spend lots of
time fussing about with the critter.


Note that this doesn't call for a hard disk, and keeping the cost and
weight down suggest *no* hard disk.

Best candidates are:
	Old Ultralight - 4.4 lbs, CGAk, 2MB, good keys and screen,
under $400; but no floppy, short battery life.
	Tandy WP-2 - 2.5 lbs, under $200 used, good battery life, fine
keyboard; but squinty 80x8 screen, poor communications, poor editor,
small memory
	Zeos or Poquet - Both sound good; but only available via mail
order, keyboard and screen might be too small to use on your lap
	AgendA - British import is hard to get ahold of, no reviews or
pictures in magazines, interesting but uncertain.


Any other thoughts, netland?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,misc.forsale.computers
From: melz@well.sf.ca.us (Melvin L. Zwillenberg)
Subject: External 5.25" floppy drive for Toshiba T1000
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:41:49 GMT


FOR SALE:
External 5.25" floppy drive (360K) for Toshiba T1000. $125. plus shipping.
Please reply by e-mail.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: uk03311@nx16.mik.uky.edu (mark w salyer)
Subject: Re: Notebook Wanted......
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:41:25 GMT

Bytw....

	In order for someone to send me the information, my address is  
uk03311@mik.uky.edu....


Mark
Xref: sparky comp.sys.laptops:4664 comp.sys.palmtops:3996
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Best hardware for portable writing
Date: 14 Dec 1992 20:02:44 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <BLK.92Dec14113535@vanity.mitre.org> blk@mitre.org (Brian L. Kahn) writes:

>I hope I can stir up a few opinions on this.  I have a slightly
>different list of requirements for a laptop/palmtop than most posters
>I've seen on this group.  I want a portable writing station.
>
>Priorities:  [heavily edited]
>	1) Small and light.  I've found that six pounds is too much, I
>	2) Good keyboard.  I have to touch type, altho a chording
>	3) Good editor.  This actually spins off into a few reqts that
>	4) Ability to handle 100K of text.  
>	5) EZ communications to a desktop machine.  A serial comm port
>	6) Cheap.  It may get lost or broken, and I can't justify
>	7) Good battery life.  I really don't want to spend lots of

>Best candidates are:  [heavily edited]
>	Old Ultralight - 4.4 lbs, CGAk, 2MB, good keys and screen,
>	Tandy WP-2 - 2.5 lbs, under $200 used, good battery life, fine
>	Zeos or Poquet - Both sound good; but only available via mail
>	AgendA - British import is hard to get ahold of, no reviews or

Psion Series 3
	keyboard may not be touch typeable, not MS-DOS compatible,
	built in programming language, MS-Word compatible word
	processor, spreedsheet available and built into newer models.
TI-2000
	discontinued 286 notebook with VGA, 40-80MB hard drive, about 4 pounds,
	no floppy drive.  I've seen prices as low as $400.
Sharp PC-3000, Memorex Commuter Computer
	two different machines similar to the Zeos and Fujitsu Poqet
	PC.  These machines differ in size and weight a small amount,
	and have differing amounts of internal RAM, battery life and
	compatibility.
Atari Portfolio
	smaller than Fujitsu/Sharp/Zeos/etc, larger than HP-95LX
	touch typable for some people, sort of MS-DOS compatible
	only $200.
AgendA
	not MS-DOS compatible, built in programming language.
TRS-80 Model 100
	even smaller screen than WP-2, but can have more total RAM, a
	bit thicker and heavier.  Can be as less than $50.  Assorted
	software available including spreesheets, databases, word
	processors, dictionaries.

If you're willing to spend a bit more money you can get the ABC BiCOM
with a 60MB hard drive for $1000.

I think Smith-Corona has a word processor notebook with a spreadsheet
program and floppy drive.

You can contact the following mailing list administrators:
agenda-users-request@newcastle.ac.uk
ultralite-list-owner@grot.starconn.com

You can get information on the Sharp, Memorex and BiCOM via anonymous
ftp from csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop/pcmcia.machines.*.

For more information on the Tandy machines check out comp.sys.tandy.

BTW, the Distribution: line should not have newsgroup names. I've set
it to "world".  To crosspost simply put the additional newsgroups
seperated by just commas (no spaces) on the Newsgroups: line.
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From: jew@venus.sunquest.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: MNP protocol in software
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:34:28 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems


I've just downloaded the software associated with MNP protocol for IBM
PC compatables from simtel20.  My question is, what public domain
software has implemented this?

We have MNP modems at work, and when I dial in over a noisy line with
my wife's MNP modem, it's error-free, sometimes slow, but no errors.
Have any of the public domain communications programs implemented this
software?
--
jew@sunquest.com

Make input easy to proofread.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wednesday, 16 Dec 1992 16:17:47 MST
From: jason l.v. <IEJLV@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,misc.computers.forsale
Subject: Re: Is Documentation Standard w/ New Systems????
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Dec16.170933.11289@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
gap5u@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Gregory Perron) says:
>
>I'm looking into buying a notebook/laptop computer.  One of the
>dealers (who contacted me through the net) is offering a Jetta Jetbook
>notebook at very competitive prices, especially when the software he's
>bundling is included.  However, documentation/manuals are not included

As a dealer, I was looking into these systems a while back. I haven't
gone either way with it, but the last PC MAG liked the units a lot,
except for the fact that the battery in theirs kept falling out. I'd
think they had that problem licked, but you might want to check that
out. It would seem kind of silly that it would be a general problem
with their product..

>for the most part.
>
>I'm looking at a 386SXL/25 or 386DX/33.  The DX also comes with
>internal modem/sendfax.  Software includes:  DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1,
>communication software of choice (w/ DX), Quattro Pro, and
>wordprocessor of choice (Wordperfect, which I use, was one of the
>choices).  However, of these, Quattro Pro was the only one that would
>come with user manuals.  Software installation is "custom done" by
>dealer.  I haven't nailed down details, but it's possible I'll get
>software loaded on the machine, but no original disks/documentation.
>Does this sound normal?  I'm suspicious that this is quasilegal at
>best.  Anyone else heard of this?

I'm not sure how licensing works for WordPerfect, but for DOS and WIN
it is possible that the copies they are putting on your system without
docs is legal -- however, the same licensing agreement that would allow
them to add the software has provisions for the manual (usu. the "short"
version) at a really low price, like $9 if I remember correctly. You
should request it and see if they are able to provide. If they don't or
can't, ask them why not.

There are a number of license agreements available from Microsoft, but
they all include provisions for manuals (as far as I've seen, anyway).
If the software is coming from Jetta, I can't tell you. Anyway, even
with the short manuals, if they're doing any volume at all, it's not
costing them $60 for both.

>Email preferred, but I'll find posts, too.
>--
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>Gregory Perron        | Greg's Law: Understand what I say, not
>gap5u@virginia.edu    | what I mean.  No, wait, that's not right...

Jason Vagner.

Hope you found this :-).
From: hart@husc10.harvard.edu (Sergiu Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: no keypad
Date: 19 Dec 92 15:19:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Dec19.102000.18695
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


[]

my laptop has no keypad.  some programs use the gray + and - as special
keys.  how can i get the same effect with some combination of keys on
the regular keyboard ? (of course, loading first some appropriate
device driver or tsr ?).  the programs at simtel (directory keyboard)
don't seem to be helpful.

thnx.
	--sergiu hart--

==============================================================
hart@sunrise.huji.ac.il      --or--     hart@husc9.harvard.edu
==============================================================
From: rdb@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Benedict)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: HD compression software
Date: 12 Dec 1992 01:56:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: rdb@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Benedict)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, charlan@vax2.concordia.ca (M.CHARLAND) says:

>Does anyone know how the various commercially available compression 
>software compare (stacker, superstore, etc.)? 
>
>My application would be an XT class machine (640K, Dos 3.3).  I am
>particularly interested in comparative analyses re. speed, RAM required,
>and compatability, esp. with HD management software such as PC Tools.
>


Both I and my brother run compression programs on the fly.
He has Stacker with DOS 5.0 and Windows, And I use SuperStor with
Dr. Dos 6.0 and Windows.
Neither of us have had any compatibilty problems.
I could not give you any speed analysis but I would say that
Stacker is faster, though he actually has a better and faster
HD than I.
We don't have PC Tools (probably the only thing we don't have!), but
I run everything from AUtocad R12 to Norton Desktop ... it goes
on but I have absolutely no problems.
My machine is a i486 class , and he has 386.

Hope it helps.

-- 
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rdb@po.cwru.edu	                                            Clarke Tower
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From: dkrause@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Subject: Re: How do I switch between internal trackball and external mouse?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: CompuAdd 325TX mouse trackball
Date: 20 Dec 92 09:14:24 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <8029@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> georgew@tekig1.pen.tek.com writes:
#I have a naive question that lots of laptop users must already know the
#answer to.  My wife has a laptop with a built-in trackball that behaves like
#a Microsoft mouse on COM2.  (It's a CompuAdd 325TX.)  If I buy a serial mouse
#for it, is there an easy way to switch between using the mouse and using the
#trackball at startup time?  The NVRAM setup allows me to swap the COM1/COM2
#ports, so presumably I could just buy a mouse that was Microsoft compatible
#and swap the ports, but that seems like a pain if I have to do it very often:

I'm just taking a guess here.  If you get the mouse (on COM1) and start
the driver, I think it will probably find the mouse there and just ignore
the trackball.

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From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Zircom ethernet pocket adapters
Date: 11 Dec 1992 19:24:29 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <of9uDiK00iw3MHC0V2@andrew.cmu.edu> David Yaron <yaron+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>1) How fast is the Zircom adapter compared to cards that plug into an AT
>slot or compared to the ethernet adapter TI sells to plug into their
>expansion port.  (I would prefer to keep the expansion port available
>for the as-yet unreleased expansion station.)

That's Xircom.  Parallel port devices have generally been slower than
equivilent devices for the ISA bus.

>3)  I have access to FTP's TCP/IP software for the more common cards
>(3com etc.)  Is Zircom compatible with some popular standard?

Yes, Xircom provides a packet driver.  FTP originated the packet driver
specification and they use it in their products.

Note that the Xircom products are only one of many parallel port
ethernet adapters.  You can get a list of products via anonymous ftp as
csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Laptop/parallel.devices.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: swong@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (Wong, Shan Yung)
Subject: Pinout of laptop modem connector inside my notebook (12 pins) wanted
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:40:00 GMT

Does anyone havea pinout map of the 12 pins connector?  I have an external
modem that I would like to connect to instead of the standard 9-pin serial
port.

Thanks,
Shan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: ramzi@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Ramzi Al-Majid)
Subject: 486DX-33 Notebooks
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:23:30 GMT


Hi all...

I am looking for a good notebook with a 486DX-33 processor. Do they really
exist ? 

Thanks in advance.

Ramzi
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: comptec91025@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Ian Hobday)
Subject: WANTED: Memory for TI TM2000
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:12:50 GMT

I have purchased a Texas Instruments TM2000 notebook, and am going to want to
expand its memory from the current 1Mb.  Does anyone know of a cheap source 
for the 1Mb modules?  The cheapest I have seen is $89 in CS...anyone seen 
better or know of some used ones?  I might even buy two if the price is right
(the max memory for this machine is 3Mb). 

Thanks,

Ian.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: anderson@fpg.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Anderson)
Subject: Toshiba T3200sx memory
Organization: Department of Computing services
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:48:18 GMT

Does anyone know if this machine takes standard memory simms?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: kalin@math.psu.edu ( kalin )
Subject: Re: Shareware Stacker-like Program?
Organization: Math Dept
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:18:20 GMT

   ritc0003@student.tc.umn.edu (Kent Ritchie) writes:
 
   Does anyone know of a shareware like stacker program that compresses the 
   whole drive instead of specific files?  And it needs to work for a hardram.
   Or does anyone use Stacker on a hardram?  Is it worth $60?


 Tonight I saw superstor for $49. I use stacker, and I get 80M out of the
 42Megs I had on the Conner drive - I guess this is worth $59...

 Haven't seen anything shareware, yet.
 Yes, you can pack a hardram.

P.S. The place I saw superstor is called electronic boutique - it's a chain,
check it out.

kalin

Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ferdie@coyote.datalog.com (fred jarvis)
Subject: Re: AST vendors (was Re: Any vendors shipping notebooks with PCMCIA 
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:56:02 GMT

> Are there any good AST dealers that do mail-order?  I'm getting the runaround
> from the few dealers I've found in this area.  (Added comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardwar
> for this question; followups to comp.sys.laptops)
> 
> --
> Alan Denney      aland@informix.com      {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
> 
   I purchased an AST Premium Exec 386 a few months ago from Computer
Discount Warehouse 1-800-597-4CDW.  (My salesperson was Kim, X236).
I had very prompt service & no complaints --  except the Power Exec is
now available.  This field is changing too fast for anyone to afford
to keep up except businesses.

Fred Jarvis     ferdie@coyote.datalog.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: sysrick@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Rick McTeague)
Subject: Need: Program to switch Bondwell from LCD to external monitor?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:56:15 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

Does anyone know of a way to make a Bondwell laptop (in my case a B310V)
switch from the LCD to an external VGA monitor without going through the
BWUT program? I'd like to be able to do it without having to go through
the menus, so I could do it blindly (i.e., without looking at the LCD
monitor), or within a .BAT file.

While I'm at it, how about something to monitor the battery in the
background, and alert me when it gets to some practical level of
discharge. Any ideas?

Rick
-- 

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Electrical Engineering Department, Speed Scientific School
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
(502) 588-7020

Internet: sysrick@starbase.spd.louisville.edu

Disclaimer: I'm a stand-up comedian; if anyone takes me seriously, I'm
            doing something wrong!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (sorgatz)
Subject: disk memory expansion for NEC Ultralite
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:56:54 GMT

 Ok, so I've been read-only here for 30 days, I haven't seen anything
that mentions the NEC Ultralite...forgive me if this is an FAQ item,
all advice gratefully accepted; advTHANKS!ance.

<background> 
 I have become the new owner of one of these beasts, it was a fair deal
($450) and I got the machine, a power pack, a battery, the 1.44Mb floppy
drive and the nominal comm port cords/manuals. Ok so it's only a 10MHz
v30 w/640KB and a CGA monochrome screen...perfect for doing some small
documents/text stuff, some portable packet/rtty/fax/cw, etc...
uhuh..that's what I thought...

 Now, down to business, the c: drive is actually CMOS RAM, it's got 1 Meg
and supposidly it's expandable to 2 Meg. Yeah right! I call around, the
news isn't all good:

 #1 NEC lists the 2 meg board for $3000.00! YES! NOT A TYPO! $3000.00!
  (like, who are they kidding??!!)

 #2 The after-market guys offer both a 2 meg and a 4 meg board; 2meg costs
  $300 and 4 meg is $500...yikes! Better than NEC, but still way out of
  line. Regular DRAM is about $40/meg in SIPP/SIMM's..assume 200% price
  for low-power CMOS DIPs...make it $80/meg...a 4 meg unit should cost
  $320 or so maximum, and that's still a ripoff!

 #3 I backup everything on my c: ramdrive and pull out the little memory
  board. No luck. The chips on mine have NO NUMBERS ON THEM! (I hate that
  kind of stuff!) There are just 8 chips, surface-mounted to one side of 
  the board, and there seems to be solderpads on BOTH SIDES, so apparently
  one could add 8 more chips to go to 2 MB...so I instantly wonder:
 
   a) The chips must be 1m x 1, maybe there is a 4m x 1 that is pin compatible?

   b) Maybe I can piggyback a second set and kludge-in a chip-select line to
      take it out to 4 meg?

   c) Maybe both a and b ?? I.E. go to 16 meg using 4 sets of 8, that are 4m x 1?? 
      (Hmmmm...16 meg...make the damn thing almost as useful as my old 20Mb XT!)

 Obviously the chips are CMOS low-power which = expen$ive, but the question is
 How expensive? And what is the availability of those chips? And do I have to 
 cut/jumper very much and where? Is it worth it? Is there an NEC Ultralite Users
 Group? Anyone got documentation on this beast, like a service manual? (My local
 NEC dealers *claim* that the stuff is not available to the public...uhuh!)

 ...So has anyone else been down this road?? 


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From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Battery drain device
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:24:05 GMT
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada

Save the resistor....

You just need to be sure your batteries are the lowest possible before
recharging them.  Batteries have a memory.  If you charge them when
at 25% empty, they will fill to 25% (approximate figures: if the batteries
are not low, they wont charge to maximum; the next time, they will charge
less, and so on).  So, just use your own computer instead of a resistor.



In article <JEW.92Nov24141428@venus.venus.sunquest.com> jew@venus.sunquest.com (Ward... James Ward) writes:
>My friend told me a good trick that I thought I'd pass along.  My
>Toshiba 1200 battery packs were lasting about ten minutes after an 8
>hour charge.  I asked my friend (who I bought the Toshiba from) what
>to do.  He said:
>
>Go down to Radio Shack and by a big resistor.
>Strap it across the battery conectors.
>Wait eight hours.
>Charge the battery.
>
>I'm here to say it works.  I didn't know what size to get, so I just
>bought one that looked like it would sit on the connectors.  Now I
>have some useful battery packs again!
>--
>jew@sunquest.com
>


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From: sandy47@cats.ucsc.edu ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Are there restrictions on traveling overseas with laptops?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 01:47:22 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <57445@dime.cs.umass.edu> shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar) writes:
>
>  I discovered to my great thrill however that I was able to carry 
>my palmtop in and out and use it to my hearts content during the 
>whole trip ... thanx to the simple fact that the HP95LX does not
>say "PC" or "Computer" anywhere, and it does look isomorphic to
>one of those "databanks", which in the airlines scheme of things
>is *not* a computer.
>
>   Wonderful ! Another good reason in favour of the hp!
>

I've used my HP95LX on a number of trips including a BA roundtrip to London
in October with absolutely no problems at all from the crew.  Most people
cannot believe it is a computer in the first place!

I've yet to have Customs query about the unit - it seems to cause them
no heartburn through the Xray machine either.


				Larry

mack@mchome.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops