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From: uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Subject: Re: HD Spin/ Battery Drain Programs
Reply-To: uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:19:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.221548.6823@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
>In article <79724@ut-emx.uucp> oleinick@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Lew Oleinick) writes:
>>The second question I have is are there any programs out there which
>>will just spin your HD until your battery is completely drained?  This
>
>:here
>chkdsk c:
>goto here
>
>and put it in a file named rundown.bat.  Something to keep the
>floppy drive running too would make it go faster of course.


I do the following

my-disch.bat
------------

:loop
a:
cd a:\
@echo off
dir a: > a:\junkfile
REM type a:\one-dot.bat
goto loop
<EOF>
You can shut down the HD while runnig my-disch.bat...  I hate using
using the HD, if can avoid using it...

The file one-dot.bat can be created using the following sequence of keystrokes...

C:\> copy con a:\one-dot.bat
.<F6><Enter>
C:\>

I would rather have the ``type a:\one-dot.bat'' in REM as the my-disch.bat
would then not place anything on the screen, and hence the screen (LCD) will
blank out.  This way, the battery does not discharge too fast.  My theory is
that if you discharge the battery too fast, you wil have the battery `run-down'
quicker that it really should...


Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Y.X. Liu )
Subject: Re: ever heard about Twinhead?
Originator: yxl5388@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:54:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.205904.26722@u.washington.edu> mcclaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Casey) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.063654.9146@news.uni-stuttgart.de> andreas@awstar.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Wierse) writes:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I've been shown a notebook with interesting features and well priced.
>>Additionally the manufacturer offers a three !! year warranty on this
>>neat thing. The manufacturer has the name Twinhead and the salesman said
>>that they are a taiwan company, but are working worldwide (and at least
>>the data sheet says that they have a special german branch).
>>
>>So does anybody know something about this company? Perhaps of the
>>quality of their products?
>>
>>Thanks in Advance
>>
>>Andreas
>>
>
>	In the August issue of PC magazine, they introduce the 
>	Twinhead _Slimnote_.  My impression from them is that
>	it is a pretty nice little machine.  However, I can't give you
>	any details as of this moment.
>

I have a Twinhead Slim 486/33 right here. A friend lent it to me to have
LANtastic installed on it. (Using a parallel Ethernet adapter.) So far
I have no luck to get it working, so the notebook is staying with me. :)

The display is a little dim although usable, I'm not sure how many
shades it has. The extremely noisy keyboard has very short travel so
it's a little hard to use until you get used to it. The hard drive is so
noisy that I'm always waiting for it to spin down and power off. The
built-in trackball is in the middle of the machine, just above the
keybaord, making it unusable.
I wouldn't buy the machine, and btw, my friend brought it from Taiwan.

.

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From: blp@cypress.com (Bruce Prickett/PROM)
Subject: PARRALLEL PORT TO SCSI: SUGGESTIONS? (WAS Re: PCMCIA slot in Toshiba 3300SL)
Summary: Why buy a docking station?
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, CA
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:03:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.190604.20016@cis.ohio-state.edu>
 grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III) writes:

>Toshiba just released a full speed SCSI controller that connects to
>the expansion port on the back, where the docking station would connect.
>It's $200 as I remember. They also released three new T18nn series laptops;
>the "clone busters ".

I'm currently thinking of getting a parrallel port to SCSI adaptor, since
I want the flexibility of more hard-disk space, tape back-up, etc.

I've never thought that the docking stations were worth the price.
With SCSI, I could also use a set of peripherals with the desk top PC I will
eventually get.

Does anyone have experience with this type of set up? (PARRALLEL PORT TO SCSI)
If you prefer, e-mail me and I'll summarise.

Bruce Prickett
blp@cypress.com
From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: "pocket" ethernet adapter recs...?
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:51:39 GMT
Reply-To: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

In article <Conrad_Nobili-020992113952@c50mac1.harvard.edu>, Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
 -- I am looking for any comments on those little parallel port ethernet
 -- adapters.
.....
 -- 
 -- My most important concerns are compatibility and ergonomics.  And of course
 -- extremely high price would also be a concern....

I know of the Zircom and D-link adapters. Compatibility for DOS is good if you
get the Vendor to give you drivers for all networks. Ours arrived first with
Novell drivers and it took us about two months and several telephone calls
to get drivers for PC-NFS. Those worked well with various NCSA telnet 
implementations, so low cost software should not be a problem.

Ergonomics generally dreadful. We got a 10Base2 (thin wire ethernet) adapter,
which means there are two coax wires going to a tee piece that sits at the
back of a double matchbox sized lump plugged into the parallel port. There is
also the power supply cable with a four-way crank plug at the back of that
matchbox. It really is a dreadful as it sounds - if you use it in the way
suggested, that is.

If you get a thinnish 25 pin serial or parallel port cable for PCs it is not
so bad, you get just the one cable to the notebook, and with some ingenuity
you can make it neat single cable ending in two plugs, one for the PC power
supply and one for the parallel port - I guess you don't want to run on 
batteries when the network needs power anyway.

Throughput: I got ftp transfers up to 65 kByte per second on our congested and
noisy backbone ethernet with a 33 MHz 486, up to 35 kByte form a 16 MHz 386sx,
the newer (Zircom inspired) fast parallel port may help.

 -- Currently I have DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 on the thing, and have interest in
 -- attaching it to Novell, TCP/IP, and AppleTalk networks.  Of course I want
 -- to reserve the right to hose the operating system(s) I currently have on
 -- the machine and put any of the various UNIX clones or OS/2 or Windows NT on
 -- it at some point.  I assume this is mostly just a software issue, so I
 -- think I am just asking whether these adapters already have software written
 -- for them that conforms to any of the generic packet driver specs.

Yes, they need to be written to both packet driver specs and need to fit into
the operating system on the PC. A driver that uses a 486 in 8086 mode is bad
enough for DOS, it will look real silly on SCO, Solaris, 386BSD, OS/9000 ...
So get them from the vendor -before- you part with money.

                                           Thomas

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From: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: cellular modems for notebooks
Date: 6 Sep 92 17:22:41 GMT
Organization: Apple Haters synonymous, Department of Computing, IC, London
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak6.doc.ic.ac.uk
In-reply-to: reaper@3cpu.rain.com's message of 5 Sep 92 08:05:21 GMT


In article <4254@3cpu.rain.com> reaper@3cpu.rain.com (Ian Johnston) writes:

   In answer to your question, no I have not heard of a cellular modem.  
   Sorry....  :)  (Pay attention to the ads in laptop/computing mags, that's
   the first place they're likely to show up)

Well, I know that NEC have done a lot of work in this area, and I
believe they have such a modem, that has specialist error correcting
protocols (might even be a MNP <large number here> sort of thing).

I also know that in the UK, British Telecom and Cellnet (one of the
cellular companies) will sell a device that allows connection of an
ordinary modem by emulating the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone
Network).

James.
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From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Re: UltraVision--Comments?  Clone?
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:10:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.074642.12504@wam.umd.edu> mary@wam.umd.edu (Mary Louise Cassidy) writes:
>UltraVision is great!!

[stuff deleted]


Has anyone tried Ultravision under OS/2 to see if DOS full screen
sessions can benefit?    Any idea if Ultravision has anything in the
works for OS/2 full screen sessions?


--Golden



-- 
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grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
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From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Re: NP-925 serial ports
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:54:51 GMT

In article <KIM.92Sep14151600@puffer.MorningStar.Com> kim@MorningStar.Com (Kim Toms) writes:
>I was wondering if anybody knew if I opened my NP-925 if it would have
>a 16550 or a 16450 chip, or perhaps just have the serial port inside
>of some horrible gate array?  I'd open it up, but I tried once and
>couldn't figure out how, and I'd just as soon not go to the effort if
>it will be pointless.



Wow.   I just logged in to ask this exact question about my Toshiba
3300SL.  I have figured out how to open it, but I wasn't going to go
on a searching spree unless there's a reason.

--Golden
-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
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From: wwhitman@nevada.edu (MICHAEL WISE)
Subject: Re: UltraVision--Comments?  Clone?
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:23:23 GMT

I must second the rave reviews for UltraVision. What usually persuades me
to buy something is its attention to detail. Librex computers come packaged
with UltraVision, and I admit this is what sold me on this notebook that
I had never heard of. I have never had problems reading my screen, a dis-
cussion that can be referred back to rec.arts.books. The font is very read-
able, even enjoyable to read. However, I have had problems getting it to run
while other TSRs are in memory, especially those that are inherently graphics
mode. Hence, dosshell uses the regular dos screen font, and my chinese 
reading program inhibits Ultra. Perhaps Ultra has been improved in the last
year. Does anyone know if versions of Ultra since Fall 1991 have changed
significantly? Are they still exclusively text-mode?

Michael Wise
alias O Captain! My Captain!
UNLV English Department



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From: kca@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Van Oast)
Subject: Re: "pocket" ethernet adapter recs...?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 10:16:04 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

all this talk about pocket ethernet adapters, i thought this might
be of interest to those of you who missed it.  this is from the most
recent issue of lan times (or possibly it was network world -- but
it was one of these).

xircom is making (and will have out very soon, as i recall) a "pocket"
(i may be making a bad choice of words here) ethernet adapter that
is built on the PCMCIA (or whatever) standard.  this is the tiny
credit-card sized memory board/card type thing that fits into the
side of the hp95 palmtop and zeos pocket pc, etc.  so, this means
great news for all with tiny tiny computers and ethernetworks.
the only thing was, that it was, i believe, a type 2 card, which
basically means it is twice the height of the type 1 PCMCIA cards.
i do not know what size slot is on the zeos, but MAYBE (i fear) the
hp has a type-1 slot, and i think this would mean the xircom card
would not fit.

-jon   pc&ns   kca@caen.engin.umich.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.laptops:3463 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:12289
From: brian@king.csd.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: The UltraLite mailing list has been moved to a new host
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:27:17 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.laptops

The ultralite-list mailing list has been moved to a new host system.
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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: NP-925 serial ports
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:14:11 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon

[]

	"I was wondering if anybody knew if I opened my NP-925 if it
	would have a 16550 or a 16450 chip, or perhaps just have the
	serial port inside of some horrible gate array?"

	"I just logged in to ask this exact question about my Toshiba
	3300SL."

It's probably a VLSI part that emulates one these chips.

Toshiba gave me, for free, a tech manual for my T3100SX; perhaps they
have one of the 3300SL?  Try asking Toshiba tech support at (800)
456-8649.  (I last used this phone number in summer of 1991.)

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
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From: bleher@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Rolf Bleher)
Subject: Re: "pocket" ethernet adapter recs...?
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:34:46 GMT

I have tested the D-LINK and CNET adaptors and bought EXOS.

D-LINK is fine but expensive (but Xircom is even more expensive!).
The CNET price is ok, but it looks very old-fashioned.
Throughput is the same. I tested with Novell 3.11 and Novell Netware Lite
and came to this results:
  There are 16 bit adaptors (internal of course)
  there are 8 bit adaptors with half the throughput of the 16 bit devices
  there are pocket adaptors with half the speed of the 8 bit devices
     you can say they perform like 4 bit adaptors
  Novell Lite is about half the speed of Novell Netware V3.11.

Finally I bought an  EXOS  pocket adaptor (model 405 T). It is called
LAN in a Can and comes in a red metal box. This adaptor is cheaper as
the D-LINK, the power supply was included in the price, and has a speed that
is a small amount higher. It comes with several drivers including Novell and
PC-NFS.

Accton is an other company with pocket adaptors (I have not tried)

I hope this helps.

Rolf
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Portable pointing devices
From: brian@grot.ca41.csd.mot.com (Brian Smithson)
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:12:48 GMT
Organization: Brian Smithson

Guy_Saffold@mindlink.bc.ca (Guy Saffold) writes:
>Anybody have any good experience with the Trackman portable?

I never had any trouble with mine.  It did seem a little bit sticky, but
not so much as a malfunction -- more like an imperfect design.  After all,
it has little plastic wheels supporting the ball, not air bearings!

All those considering portable pointing devices should also consider the
Appoint Thumbelina.  It's *much* smaller, but do try one out before buying.
You'll either like or hate the feel of it.  The ball itself is very small.
It's also quite a bit cheaper than Logitech and Microsoft's portable
trackballs.
-- 
-Brian Smithson, Motorola Inc., Computer Group
 2001 Logic Drive, M/S 1-E10, San Jose, CA 95124 USA, (408)369-4104
 brian@ca41.csd.mot.com, {apple | pyramid}!motcsd!brian
 post-Motorola: brian@starnet.starconn.com, apple!starnet!brian
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: "pocket" ethernet adapter recs...?
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:12:38 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

In article <8Nr-dA=@engin.umich.edu> kca@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Van Oast) writes:
>i do not know what size slot is on the zeos, but MAYBE (i fear) the
>hp has a type-1 slot, and i think this would mean the xircom card
>would not fit.

PCMCIA cards can vary both electrically and physically.  As it happens
the Xircom card is electrically a PCMCIA 2.0 card which means it won't
work in an HP-95 and it's physically a Type II card which means it may
not fit in the slot that way either.  Zeos says their machine is 2.0,
they're looking up the slot thickness right now.

Here are some details to the standard:
PCMCIA 1.0  memories like SRAM (not DRAM), OTP/mask ROM, Flash EPROM.
PCMCIA 2.0  all of 1.0 plus stuff like modems, hard drives, network adapters

Type I Card	54mm x 85.6mm x 3.3mm	all the memory cards I know of
Type II Card	54mm x 85.6mm x 5mm	modems
Type III Card	54mm x 85.6mm x 10?mm	hard drives

Note that IBM, Megahertz, IQ Technologies, and D-Link Systems also
have PCMCIA network adapters in development.

Even thought the HP has PCMCIA 1.0 doesn't mean that it can't use
PCMCIA modems, etc, it just means that those cards will be non-standard
and will have to be made specifically for it.  Given the popularity
of the machine, network adapters may very well be made for it.  Modems
are already being developed.
--
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From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Y.X. Liu )
Subject: T1000XE vs. PB100 -- which is better?
Originator: yxl5388@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:10:05 GMT

Subject almost says it all. I don't know whether I should get a
refurbished T1000XE (1 meg RAM + 20 meg HD) or a Powerbook 100. I want
a cheaper notebook to supplement my desktops and a future T3300SL.
Basically I just want to do some wordprocessing. Probably with Geoworks
if I get the Toshiba or Word for Mac if I get the PB. Anyone have any
suggestions and/or recommendations?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: mary@wam.umd.edu (Mary Louise Cassidy)
Subject: Re: UltraVision--Comments?  Clone?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 07:46:42 GMT

UltraVision is great!!
It replaces the trashy font on my Toshiba 3100SX with one that looks
GREAT at 80x34.  Plus it uses ALL of the screen!  I also use it to
switch the colors so that in Telix the text is black on orange..much
more readable!  I have found however that it and Word Perfect do NOT
get along.  When spellchecking in WP with UV...it locks up..very odd...
but otherwise...


ALSO...how long should my charge last on the T3100SX???  How do I deep
discharge the batteries (if they need it)???  I want more time!!
Thanks...
From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Notebook joystick
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:28:23 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon

[]

		"Has anyone heard of any devices which allow a portable
		w/ a parallel or serial port to support a joystick?
		Obviously some sort of driver would be required."

	"Although this is certainly possible, it would be a useless
	device for games.  A joystick interface is hardware, and most
	software directly accesses the interface, there is no driver
	involved.  The game would have to be rewritten to use any other
	sort of controller."

This contributor apparently hasn't noticed the neat tricks you can do
with 386 memory mapping.  To summarize: you could hack a TSR (the user
would think of it as a driver) to simulate the hardware that the game
is looking for.  I saw an ad for a product that does just this -- I
wish I had retained a reference.

	"There are a lot of machines out there that can't have a
	joystick: Microchannel (real expensive actually) ..."

Joystick controllers for Microchannel are readily available.  For
example, I believe that the Microchannel version of the Soundblaster
includes one.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
From: 0003735974@MCIMAIL.COM (Jim Gorak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: PSION Series 3 Palmtop
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:21:00 GMT

I have recently become the owner of a PSION Series 3 palmtop computer.
 
I'm interested in:
 -Comments from others with experience using the Series 3.
 -Information on the serial & parallel I/O options.
 -Has anyone developed any useful programs in PSION's OPL language?
 -Are there any public domain OPL programs?
 
Thanks...
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From: mohr@rtsg.mot.com (Wilson Mohr)
Subject: Dell Dimension NL25 - Comments/Experiences requested
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:52:56 GMT

Does anyone have any experiences/comments about the Dell NL25
Laptop? We are currently acquiring several of these to replace
another poor performing laptop (Compudyne 386sx) and wish not
to make another mistake.

Thanks in Advance!
-- 
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mohr@rtsg.mot.com    time, he will pick himself up and continue on" - W. Churchill
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