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From: cs161fho@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (cs161fho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Thinkpad 700(no bloody C), anyone?
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:14:11 GMT

Hi, there.  The center of discussion in both c.s.l and magazines
seems to concentrate on Thinkpad 700C.  But most of people will only
have the budget for 700.  Can the owners of 700 give us some reviews
about the machine?  Espeically on the 9.5 inch mono LCD.  Also, I
have a few questions about the machine:
1. How many serial ports does the machine have.
2. For those who have upgraded the CPU to SLC2, how does it effect
the battery life?
3. Is there a FPU sucket on the machine?  If yes, what types of FPU
does it accept?

Here is my wish list for the next incarnation of Thinkpads
1. i486SL.
2. PCMCIA TYPE II slots.
3. active matrix(or addressing) mono LCD.
4. larger bridge battery.
5. external video at least capable of 800x600x256
6. mechanism to allow the TRACKPOINT stick to retrack when closing,
to reduce the thickness.
7. drop the MCA architecture in favor of PI&ISA.
8. Maybe not next generation, but built-in sound(record&playback)
capability should be an integral part of PC notebooks. Judging by
the pupularity of Powerbooks.

Please be welcome to add comments to the wish list.  Maybe we can
forward the wish list to IBM later.  Now that InfoWorld has become
less informative than before.  I hope c.s.l will become an important 
source for portable computing which it never was.

Thank you.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: danz@mentorg.com (Steven Danz)
Subject: Comments on several 386SL laptops
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 01:46:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation
Keywords: 
Followup-To: danz@mentorg.com

Hello:

I am in the market for a laptop, and have so far narrowed my 
search down to the following models:

Sharp PC6785
Compudyne 386SL/25
PC-Brand 486SLC Monochrome LeaderBook
Altima 325SL

I would like to get opinions from anyone about these machines in areas
like screen quality, keyboard layout/action, performance, etc...  
Also, if there are other laptops that are similar that I am missing
in my list, I would like to hear about those also.  My requirements in 
general have been size (8.5x11), weight (<6lbs), screen (10inch, 64/32 
gray shades), some integrated pointing device, and of course, price (<1800).

Responses by e-mail are preferred, and if there is interest, I will 
post a summary.

Thanks!

Steven Danz
From: ewebber@access.digex.com (Eric Sean Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Docking Station for Toshiba 2200SX needed
Date: 8 Jan 1993 23:19:36 GMT
Organization: DIVERSIFIED ETC. P.O. BOX 952 Greenbelt, MD 20770 USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
Keywords: TOSHIBA 2200 SX Docking Station needed used ok

Looking for DOCKING Station for Toshiba 2200 SX, can be used and third party

ERIC WEBBER    : - >   


Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: ECL2B02@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Robert Skinner UCLA Biomedical Library)
Subject: Re: Request for Toshiba BBS phone #
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:27:03 PST

In article <1993Jan9.161032.25358@athena.mit.edu>, on 9 Jan 1993 16:10:32 GMT,
jwlin@athena.mit.edu (John W. Lin) writes:

>
>Does anyone have the phone number(s) for the Toshiba BBS?
>
>Please post here or send via email to jwlin@athena.mit.edu. Thanks.
>
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>
Toshiba BBS  300-1200 Baud:714-837-4408
             Hayes V-series Smartmodem 9600 Baud  714-837-4409
             V.32/V.42/V.42bis 9600 Baud 714-837-2116, 714-837-2722
             V.32bis /MNP2-5 14.4bps  714-837-4572
From: henrik@carmen.volvo.se (Henrik von Klopp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Opinions on CityNote notebooks
Date: 5 Jan 93 09:51:18 GMT
Organization: Volvo Data Carmen Group


Hi all,

I am considering buying a CityNote notebook. It seems to be the usual taiwanese
stuff, except for a large hard disk (512Meg or one Gig.) and 486DX2 processors.

Is there anyone out there who has got one, or knows anything about the machine?
I would like your opinion on screen quality, performance etc.

Henrik

Henrik von Klopp         
Volvo Data Carmen Group 
henrik@carmen.volvo.se 
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From: bu951@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian R. Beeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: T1000SE for sale w/ 3MB and internal 2400MNP5
Date: 10 Jan 1993 21:11:24 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bu951@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian R. Beeler)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, sknapp@iastate.edu (Steven M. Knapp) says:

>I have dropped my asking price to $350.

Is that all a T1000SE is worth these days?  Man, I've got about $1k 
into mine (the same as the one forsale but with 3 new batteries).
BTW, the T1000SE is a bullet-proof little system with the best keyboard
I've ever typed on.  $350 is a steal.

I have no relationship to "sknapp" except being a fellow victim of technology.

Shalom,
Brian
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: kalin@math.psu.edu ( kalin )
Subject: how portable can we get?
Followup-To: comp.sys.laptops
Keywords: modem, cordless
Organization: Math Dept
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:10:03 GMT

Here's what I think is possible. 
Not so long ago I saw somewhere (any pointers welcome_
a stupid device which is actually two boxes. One is plugged
in the phone wall outlet and the other has the batteries and
you drag it around in the house or the yard and plug a general 
household phone in it. Now your phone is cordless - kind of.

I have a strong feeling that this can be done to laptops with
internal modems - so no more 30 ft of phone wires in the house, 
and a wife complaining about a tipped floor lamp.....

Any idea who makes those phone "RABBITS" ?

regards
kalin




Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: jwlin@athena.mit.edu (John W. Lin)
Subject: Request for Toshiba BBS phone #
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:10:32 GMT

Does anyone have the phone number(s) for the Toshiba BBS?

Please post here or send via email to jwlin@athena.mit.edu. Thanks.

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From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.arch.storage
Subject: Re: PCMCIA hard disk drives (was: Integral Systems, Inc?)
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:42:35 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <C0HtL6.4ur@cs.uiuc.edu> ywlee@cs.uiuc.edu (Youngwhan Lee) writes:

>For your information, here is the list of PCMCIA HD manufacturers.

Do you have any other information, like address, phone number, etc?
I'd like to put the information in my pcmcia.sources file at
csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop.

Here's another company working on PCMCIA rotating and solid state
storage cards.

Oki Semiconductor		hard drives, flash EPROM
Sunnyvale, CA
408-720-1900

>Right. I'm eager to see this flash memory affordable for average users.

SunDisk sells 20MB flash memory cards for about $1200, smaller cards
are available.  Intel has advertised them in the past for as little as
$600 in quantity, but they are currently not shipping any cards,
apparently due to manufacturing problems.

SunDisk				Flash memory for HP
SunDisk Corporation
3270 Jay Street
Santa Clara, CA 95054
800-688-7177
408-980-8607 fax
408-562-0500

I'm cross posting this to comp.arch.storage.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: cys@netcom.com (Cy Shuster)
Subject: Re: IBM 700C query
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:30:28 GMT

There's a rumor that a new model will have a PCMCIA slot, but there's
already a large space for an internal modem, and you've got the parallel
port to play with for Ethernet etc. The screen is very highly rated,
and the pointing device turns out to work much better than I thought
(particularly for us touch typists). Price is really the only issue;
also I heard that Solaris won't run on MCA devices, but I haven't confirmed
that. Mine is on order...

--Cy--
cys@netcom.com

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: need altima/dell/compaq/other info
From: <KRUCK@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 21:55:52 EST

   I am interested in finding out information on the following
brands/models.  If you have any experience with any of the following,
please e-mail (or post) your overall opinion as well as specific
features that are particularly good or bad...

Altima 400 series (any model)- the local distributor (about 2 hours
     away) doesn't provide a 30-day money-back guarantee, and homey
     don't play that game unless there are a lot of positive comments
     from the net...

Dell- A good company, but is the price reasonable? How do they
     compare with other comparable machines?

Compaq LTE models- any information on these would be appreciated
     (I have the BYTE review Jan 1993)

In general, what reccomendations do you have for a good (but
     inexpensive) 486 or fast 386 notebook? It should have
     video that windows is at least tolerable on. Low price
     is more important than a color screen (unless there is a
     good cheap passive matrix)
 Final Price range should be 1800-2500...

Thanks in advance,

        Keith
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
Subject: Re: Tandy 4860
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:26:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.193012.15744@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jpgraham@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John P Graham) writes:
>I just aquired a Tandy 486DX/33 laptop computer ... and have a couple of 
>questions ...
>1) When  in use the bottom panel of the computer seems to get very hot ... I 
>don't know what temp. but it feels surprisingly high .. Has anyone experienced
>this with this model or other laptops??
>2) I was messing around with windows (installing) and the amount of space 
>taken up on the hard drive seems to have increased dramatically .... The 
>'chkdsk' command in DOS says there are 3 hidden files taking up about 12megs!
>Is there a way to get rid of them and do they have any purpose??(I think it 
>may be that windows is somehow on there twice now??!).
>Any help greatly appreciated (ps : Price for this comp. is 2299$ with 
>4 meg ram / 60 MB hard drive).
>Thanks in advance ... John/.
>


My old Compaq LTE 386/s20 had this problem.  It would actually get un-
comfortable after 1/2 hour or so.  I have a newer Compaq LTE lite 25c
and it doesn't have the problem.  Seems to be related to where the cpu
chip is located and how the heat is routed away from it.

Windows creates a swap file.  If you don't exit windows normally, or if
you tell windows to create a "permanent" swap file to prevent having to
create it each time you start windows, you will get such a large hidden
file.  You can remove it if you want, by unhiding and unsysing it and
then deleting it via del.  If you are powering off with windows up,
DONT...  you are taking a chance on corrupting everything.  Stop windows
first.  If you are exiting windows first, you must have (unknowingly) told
windows to make the swap file permanent.  You can change that... see the
manual....

Bob

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: rwoodsaj@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: TI3000 weirdness (was Re: Expansion chasis for TI Travelmate 3000)
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:35:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.204248.6315@wam.umd.edu>, rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
> In article <nelson.726779393@skid.ps.uci.edu> nelson@hepxvt.ps.uci.edu (Matt Nelson) writes:
>>I have been thinking lately that an expansion chasis for my Travelmate
>>3000 WinSX would be a neat-o thing to have.  I suspect that they are
>>outrageously expensive, but have yet to see any mention of this thing
>>in any store's ads/product listings.
> 
> 
> 	I got a letter from TI that said $798 for the case, backplane
> 	and PS.  (includes a keyboard connector, tho).. 
> 
> 	If you find anything more, please forward them to me, too.

If you are willing to hack, the expansion chassis for the Sharp PC6220 range
is suitable for use with the SHARP PC6600 / TI Travelmate 3000 range.
I picked up a PC6220 expansion chassis pretty cheap and use it every now and
then.  There are a few bits which have to be removed from the chassis so that
the computer will fit mechanically.  The power supply connector on the
chassis into the PC6600/TI-TM3000 also needs to be changed.

> 	But for weirdness sake:
> 
> 	For those who have a TI Travelmate running Windows at homeon
> 	an external monitor.  Try poppingthe sucker into standby mode.
> 
> 	Notice thatwhile the system is supposed to be entirely dead--
> 	_you can still move the mouse pointer_!.. 
> 
> 	Not only that, but it will remember clicks and such.  It wont *do*
> 	anything until you un-standby it, but you can click on minimize
> 	bottons and such and they'll be enacted when you press fn-f4 
> 	again.
> 
> 	:  "Why??"

I had noticed that the VGA display stayed active but not the bit about the
mouse activity.  I must try it out.
I have always been disappointed about the apparent high power consumption
while the unit was in standby mode.  This I put down to the activity of
the VGA controller and memory which seems to be the hottest part of the
computer.  (put your finger on the parallel port)

WHY?  a full shutdown was probably more expensive to implement.
  
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From: awkerr@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Alan Kerr)
Subject: "One-Under" and memory for Toshiba 1200HB, where?
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 04:38:35 GMT


I have a Toshiba 1200HB, the older XT-based machine.  There used to be
something called a "one-under" (or something similar) that would
attach to a toshiba and give it one standard-slot.  Do these things
still exist and does anyone have an address for it?

Also, I've looked through just about everything that I can get my
hands on, but no one seems to carry (understandably) a memory card or
the memory for a 1200HB.  Does anyone carry still this?

Thanks

Alan

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:01:14 EST
From: <PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: T1000SE for sale w/ 3MB and internal 2400MNP5
 <1iq3dsINN5b6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <C0nr5I.L7o@news2.cis.umn.edu>
 <BETSYS.93Jan11163316@ra.cs.umb.edu>

Paula looks around the room...  Is she talking to me?  Betsy is asking if
someone wants to sell a T100SE.  She can't be talking to me.  Everyone knows
how much I love my Toshiba, even when its soldering comes lose.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: leejun@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun H Lee)
Subject: HELP for NEW BUYER for laptops...leaving soon...
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:16:50 GMT

Hi, Netters:

I am in the market for laptop portable PC. I have not used
the PC for a long time and I need some update. I would
very much appreciate your help on the information.

I will be using for some scientific/engineering calculation,
word processing, data acquisition mainly.

1. Mac version of notebook (called PowerBook or something?) or
   IBM version of notebook (such as ThinkPad)?

2. Like to have fax/modem.

Pls recommand the unit, approx. price and some reliable mail-order
places. Thanks a lot.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: ritc0003@student.tc.umn.edu (Kent Ritchie)
Subject: Re: T1000SE for sale w/ 3MB and internal 2400MNP5
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:46:30 GMT

Add me to that list.  I have a T1000SE with the same configuration.    
Although I only paid about $600 for everything new...  I have come to the
realization that it isn't worth trying to sell to upgrade.  I am going to 
wait until I have the money for a Duo or Outbound, and keep my T1000SE
for a backup...  I too think it has the best keyboard among laptops, maybe
even desktops.  

 
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From: ywlee@cs.uiuc.edu (Youngwhan Lee)
Subject: Re: PCMCIA hard disk drives (was: Integral Systems, Inc?)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:12:23 GMT

In <1iibkrINNlkk@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:

>In article <C0HtL6.4ur@cs.uiuc.edu> ywlee@cs.uiuc.edu (Youngwhan Lee) writes:

>>For your information, here is the list of PCMCIA HD manufacturers.

>Do you have any other information, like address, phone number, etc?
>I'd like to put the information in my pcmcia.sources file at
>csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop.

Yes, I do. Here is more detailed information of the manufacturer
the PCMCIA rotating storage cards.

1. Conner Peripherals
   San Jose, CA
   408-456-4500

2. Hewlett-Packard
   Boise, ID
   800-637-7740

3. Ministor Peripherals
   2801 Orchard Parkway
   San Jose, CA, 95134
   Fax 408-434-0784

4. NEC
   Boxborough, MA
   508-264-8900

5. Seagate Technology
   Scotts Valley, CA
   408-438-6550

6. Kalok
   1289 Anvilwood Ave.
   Sunnyvale, CA
   408-747-1315
   Fax 408-747-1319

7. Aura Assciates
   2605 S. Winchester Boulevard
   Campbell, CA 95008
   408-252-2872
   Fax 408-252-2876

8. Western Digital
   8105 Irvine Center Dr.
   Irvine, CA
   714-932-5000
   Fax 714-932-4900

>Here's another company working on PCMCIA rotating and solid state
>storage cards.

>Oki Semiconductor		hard drives, flash EPROM
>Sunnyvale, CA
>408-720-1900

>>Right. I'm eager to see this flash memory affordable for average users.

>SunDisk sells 20MB flash memory cards for about $1200, smaller cards
>are available.  Intel has advertised them in the past for as little as
>$600 in quantity, but they are currently not shipping any cards,
>apparently due to manufacturing problems.

>SunDisk				Flash memory for HP
>SunDisk Corporation
>3270 Jay Street
>Santa Clara, CA 95054
>800-688-7177
>408-980-8607 fax
>408-562-0500

>I'm cross posting this to comp.arch.storage.
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From: akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Parallel Port Ethernet throughput??
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:48:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan6.064846.2871
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.


Could folks who have had experience with ethernet adaptors on the
parallel ports tell us what kind of throughput we could expect?

thanks in advance,

kartik

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From: omid@cs.utexas.edu (Omid Sojoodi-Haghighi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Toshiba T1000SE battery problems
Date: 12 Jan 1993 11:22:38 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: agave.cs.utexas.edu
Summary: dead battery?
Keywords: none

Hi folks,

I've got a T1000SE that's giving me some problems.  I think the battery
is failing to hold a charge but I'm not sure so I thought I would ask
the net before I order a new one.  Here are the symptoms:

1) looses its charge really quickly
2) sometimes fails to charge at all (last night I couldn't get the 
   machine on so I left it charging all night.  This morning the
   battery indicator light was green so I disconnected the AC and
   tried to turn on the machine...nothing.)
3) with the AC adapter plugged in, I can sometimes get it to boot
   but it will either shut off as it tries to check to A: disk
   or if it manages to boot it will usually stay on until I try
   to use the A: drive and then blink off again.

If you have any advice it would be appreciated.  By the way, in case
it is the battery that's dead, what's the cheapest price for a new
battery pack?  I've seen them for about $59 mailorder.

Many thanks,
Omid
omid@cs.utexas.edu
From: werdna@cco.caltech.edu (Andrew Tong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 700(no bloody C), anyone?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 07:00:41 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

Hmmmm.  How about XGA-2 on the system?  SCSI capability (W/O docking station,
that is...) would be nice, too.  Battery life could ALWAYS be improved.
Built-in Ethernet (like on the Thinkpad 300) would also be useful.   

BTW: what's the highest speed modem that can be hooked up to it?  All I've 
heard of is an internal 2400baud modem with 9600baud fax....
From: steve@europa.esd.sgi.com (Motorin' Flarey Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Parallel Port Ethernet throughput??
Date: 11 Jan 93 05:51:57 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1993Jan8.112019.13696@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
>   On a side note, has anyone pulled one of these adapters apart and seen if 
>they are buildable as a project?  Shelling out $800 for an ethernet adapter 
>is a bit nuts, and I would rather play around with building one anyways.

You can get a Xircom parallel port ethernet adapter for less than $350.  Other
less prestigious brands are less money.  The hardware part is the easier part 
to build.  Glue an ethernet chip set and some pals together and you have it.
Well, maybe it's not that easy.  You do have to have a pretty thorough 
knowledge of ethernet.
> 
>   Do these things need drivers (software) ?

Yes, quite a lot of software.  This is by far the more difficult part.  Of 
course, I would take this with a grain of salt as I'm a hardware designer...

In any case, I wouldn't tackle it and I'm pretty familiar with ethernet.  I'd
rather make my own expansion chassis as a project...


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