Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: mwarren@oracle.com (Mark Warren)
Subject: Re: Best palmtop w/ internal modem?
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
Distribution: comp.sys.palmtops
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:01:47 GMT
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For 80x25 screens, see the list of machines below. Any CGA screen
meets that requirement.

Modems are available as PCMCIA cards, so any palmtop with a PCMCIA
slot will satify "2.". The internal modems now are available at 14.4K data,
9600 fax, with an X-Jack so that nothing extends outside of the
machine except when you have phone cord plugged in.

An X-Jack is a slide out square on the side of the card, the square
has wires extending into the center and the phone cord plugs in
through the square. There are pictures of the X-Jack in magazine ads,
but here's a weak try at an ascii drawing:

Top view without phone cord:

----------------+
        	|
        	|
        	|
        	|
        	-----+
        	===  |	<-- This square slides in and out. I've shown
        	===  |       it in the `out' position. The "===" are
                -----+       the wires that mate with the phone plug.
        	|
----------------+

Side view with phone cord plugged in:

		     /====================
                    // 	       	^
        	    \\	       	|----- Phone cord
                    _\\_
Top of card         |   | |   <- Phone plug
------------------+ |	| |
__________________|________   <- "Square" of X-Jack
                    |___|/

Machine listing (from Anthony's archive):
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                        MS-DOS PCMCIA Palmtop Computers

Name          CPU  MHz  W x D x H    Weight     Display RAM  Slots Cost Battery
                         (inches)   (pounds)                       US$   hours
Abstract R&D F8680 14   8.6  4.3  1.1   1.0     CGA     1/2MB   1  600  50
FMRcard    80286                                VGA             2  ???  ???
HP-95LX    NEC V20 5.37 6.3  3.4  1.0,  0.68    40x16&  512/1MB 1  $400 50?
Memorex    80C88   7.16 9.33 4.33 1.16, 1.28    CGA?    640KB   1% $600 ???
Poqet PC   80C88   7    8.8  4.3  1.0,  1.2     CGA     512KB   2* $800 100
Sharp PC-3?00 80C88 10  8.8  4.4  1.0,  1.23    CGA     1/2MB   2  869  ???
Zeos       NEC V30 7.15 9.6  4.5  1.0,  1.20    CGA     1MB     2% $600 10/30

* Poqet PC slots are not totally PCMCIA 1.0 compatible, ask the
card manufacturer about Poqet PC compatability.
& the HP-95LX simulates a virtual MDA and has 240x128 proprietary graphics.
% reported to be PCMCIA 2.0

All machines are PCMCIA 1.0 unless otherwise noted, probably Type I cavities.
Some machines have Digital Research's DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS.
Prices are more or less accurate as of 92/08/27.
No LCD has a backlight.

Abstract R&D    510-253-9588
Fujitsu (Poqet) 408-764-9400
Hewlett-Packard 800-443-1254  208-344-4809 fax back service
Memorex         800-CALL-MRX US, 800-268-9886 Canada
Sharp           800-BE-SHARP    also available from EduCALC 800-677-7001
                                Arkon (416)593-6502 Toronto  PC-3100
Zeos            800-423-5891


More detailed information can be found in the relevant *.news files at
csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop.  Please send corrections and additions
to anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu.
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Bottom line: you have a lot of choices. :-)

Mark



In article <5202@equinox.unr.edu> goodman@equinox.unr.edu (Dr. Philip Goodman) writes: