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From: grego@trainsequoia.com (Greg O'Neil - Instructor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Setup utilities for TI3000 Travelmate
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:19:20 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

The short form: I need to reacquire the set_up.exe utility for 
a Texas Instruments Travelmate 3000 laptop. 

The full story:

H/W: TI3000, 4Mb memory, 20Mb HD, currently VGA.
S/W: Coherent 3.2 (read as version 7 Unix). No DOS or Windows.

Situation: I want to change graphics mode from VGA to CGA to possibly extend
battery life. Can someone confirm if this will work? In order to do this I
need to get the set_up utility to change these dang things. Since I only have
a 20Mb HD, no room for DOS with all that UNIX crud, and of course I blew 
away all those nifty utils. Now I want to add a DOS partition so I can load
the utils back on, but I don't have the utilities any more.

This has led me to some other questions.....

	o  Does graphics mode affect battery life?
	o  Are these setup functions available other than set_up.exe?
	o  Anyone else running UN*X-like software on a trully laptop machine?
	o  Is this set_up request just a trap request into prom? 
	o  Is this specific to TI or do many laptops share configuration style?

These questions may seem destined for TI Support, but no response from them
yet. Any recommendations for support software or hardware issues? The original
dealer I bought from only wants to sell me a new TI4000 running windows.
They don't seem to care if I want to replace the 20Mb with a 60Mb HD. Is there
a customer support BBS, ftp site, backstreet alley where I can get this 
software with a minimum of blood and fur on the walls?

Also, am looking to buy a clue at window #2 on hard drive expansions. Want to
go from a 20Mb to at least a 60Mb. Possible? Expensive? third-party avail?

Mail, phone, smoke signals, all help great. Tanx.

Greg O'Neil - grego@sequoia.com
Sequoia Systems Inc. (508) 480-0800x1759
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From: sac@cl.cam.ac.uk (Simon Crosby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Reeves plc Computers
Keywords: Recommendations, warnings, advice
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:47:52 GMT
Reply-To: sac@cl.cam.ac.uk (Simon Crosby)
Distribution: uk
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <1992Oct6.145814.4915@spider.co.uk> georget@spider.co.uk
(George Taylor) writes:
>
>I'm currently looking through the computer press in search of a
>laptop/notebook PC. I've found one which appears to be very powerfull for its
>price and with a lot of nice features.
>
>Of course this makes me suspicous!
>[...]

I own the Reeves 40 Mhz 386 Dx. Here's my \quid 0.02 worth:

1. 10 to 14 day delivery delay.
2. I collected mine from reeves (Northampton - not far) to avoid hassles
with carriers - they have a disclaimer in their contract terms which
indemnify them if the carriers fail to deliver !
3. Machine has a better keyboard than the 386sx earlier version - feels
good and is a bit quieter.
4. Battery life is OK, but not brilliant. The advantage is that you can
put normal C cells (or C - size rechargeables) into the battery slot.
Batteries normally last 1.5 to 2hours (nicad). I've no experience with C
cells yet.
5. Comes with 4Mb on board. Upgradeable to 8Mb easily, but you'll have
to throw away the 4 Mb you get with the machine and replace it with 8 x
1Mb simms (I think - haven't done it yet). 
Also upgradeable to 20 Mb if you buy an additional little board from
them (I have not done either upgrade yet). Conclusion: upgrade is EXPENSIVE
6. HDD - works well
7. Screen - after use you have to leave screen up for 10 mins otherwise
heat from machine will degrade screen quality.
8. SCSI port - not standard SCSI - you have to buy an adaptor from
Reeves and a special driver for the board is supplied (free) with the
machine. (tough for unix users :-( )
9. Serial, parallel, fax ports, all seem good.

CONCLUSION
=============

Price per MHZ and configuration is the best in the UK, or close to the best. 
Beware the sneaky memory upgrade problem - if you will want to upgrade
sometime then buy the full system from the start as doing it youself
will be expensive.
Other than that no hassles.

Good luck

Simon Crosby 
sac@cl.cam.ac.uk
From: chuck@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Charles Rissmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Notebook advice wanted
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:46:11 GMT
Reply-To: chuck@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Charles Rissmeyer)
Organization: StPaul

In article <1992Oct13.104627.17449@spider.research.ptt.nl> m.m.l.kuunders@research.ptt.nl (Martien Kuunders) writes:
>In article <Oct.12.12.12.35.1992.13605@math.rutgers.edu> daumer@math.rutgers.edu (Martin Daumer) writes:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I will go
>>back to Germany in two weeks (from NY) and I thought it is a good idea
>>to take advantage of the weak Dollar.
>
>A weak dollar means you get less DM for your $, not the other way around... 

So he is smart to take advantage of the weak dollar.  When the dollar is
strong, he trades in more DM/$ than he does when the dollar is weak.  
Therefor, the weak dollar means he doesn't have to spend as much DM.
From: jiu1@husc8.harvard.edu (Haibin Jiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Portable mice or trackballs
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:54:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Oct7.135433.16142
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <4806@crl.LABS.TEK.COM> ellis@daffodil.LABS.TEK.COM (Cynthia Ward) writes:
>
>So my question is, can anyone tell me from _first-hand_ experience about
>being denied the use of their mouse or trackball on a flight? (I'm more 
>interested in domestic flights, but I'm also curious about whether this
>has happened on any international flights.) I'm really only interested in
>first-hand experiences, not friend-of-a-friend or urban legend stories.
>Please e-mail or post ...
>

OK, this is not first hand, but when I took the United to Seattle last
April, one of the flight attendants asked the guy next to me not to use
his Logitech trackball on his generic 386SX notebook.  The guy simply
complied.

Haibin
From: jrtz@stat2.bst.rochester.edu (John Ritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Windows 3.0 on T1000SE : SURE , No problemo !
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:21:08 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

About the ad on Windows 3.0 on T1000SE :

I'm running Windows 3.0 in real mode on my T1000SE and I've been doing
it now for the last couple of months without any major problems.
Although it is a bit slow sometimes , I have used paint , write , 
printspooler etc. . I could even load paint and write simultanously and
switch back and forth from the windows. 
It should be mentioned that I have the Backpack Harddrive from 
Microsolutions connected to the parallell port. Without the harddrive 
I'm not sure it would work. Also the screen should be configured as
Olivettis AT&T 6300 ( or something like that ).
From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Notebook advice wanted
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:14:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: wet.4349
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

I'm in the market for a DOS notebook computer and I don't know what
model to get.  I'm hoping someone here can help me choose one.  Its
primary use will be word processing; in fact, I don't know what else
I'd use it for. :^)  Maybe telecomm.
 
I'm looking for something that's light, has a good screen for indoor
and outdoor use, and that has a good keyboard.  I don't think a
floppy drive is necessary since I plan to connect the notebook to my
desktop computer for final editing of files.  The computer doesn't
need to be fast -- maybe a 286 or 386sx at the most.
 
An internal modem would be a bonus, although not necessary.  A
responsive keyboard (I like IBM's original keyboard feel, although I
know I won't get that in a notebook) and an easy-to-read screen are
more important.
 
Something that's not bulky would be good too.  I'd also prefer not to
spend too much money.  I'm planning on the $600-$700 range at most,
if possible.
 
Any ideas?  (I called Tredex -- someone recommended them to me -- and they
won't have many more notebooks until next week.  They only have one model
in stock right now, a 386 with a screen that doesn't look good outdoors.)

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From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: ? on Power Management
Date: 10 Oct 1992 07:32:36 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <ldc3nvINN19m@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>says that if I keep it plugged in all the time, the batteries will be
>continually charged and will be ruined.  
>
>Is this true?  If so, is there some way to circumvent the power from 

Yes, it's true of all NiCd battery powered devices.  Pull out the
battery when it's not being discharged or charged.  Note that some
machines must have the battery installed in order to function, some
don't.  Shop around.  The batteries on my old T1000 are not removable
at all, so I always fully discharge then fully recharge.  After four
years of mostly daily use I still get up to six hours of battery time.
Other people weren't so careful and killed their batteries.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: guy@ns.network.com (Guy D'Andrea)
Subject: Windows 3.x on a Toshiba T1000SE with 2meg memory card?  Yes or No???
Organization: Network Systems Corporation
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 16:39:46 GMT

I remember seeing this question before but I have forgotten the answer... :-(
Has anyone done this?  I have a T1000SE and a Deskjet 500, and I understand that
Windows will allow the use of scaleable fonts on the Deskjet.  

Even a better question might be; what would be the best word proc. that would 
fit into memory ok, and allow me to make the best use of the Deskjet 500's
abilities (Like downloadable fonts, scale-able fonts, etc.)?  Thanks for ANY
help!!!

-Guy


 guy@nsco.network.com, Guy Dandrea, Network Systems Corp., Mpls. MN 55428,  USA 
                        1-800-328-9108  Fax:(612)424-1736
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Portable mice or trackballs
From: $stephan@sasb (Stephan Fassmann, Software)
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:47:06 -0700
 <92281.231805RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Oct8.071707.17365@cs.uoregon.edu>
Organization: BYU
Summary: Bad, rf, bad...

In article <1992Oct8.071707.17365@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@getafix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>Subject: Re: Portable mice or trackballs
>From: akm@getafix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
>Date: 8 Oct 92 07:17:07 GMT
>Summary: Bad, rf, bad...
>In article <92281.231805RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> <RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>I find it hard to believe that the signal coming from a portable mouse/
>>trackball is strong enuf to interfere with avionics on aircraft.
>>Next thing you know, we'll all have to leave our quartz watches at
>>the check-in counter. They'll rip pacemakers out of
>>folk's chests. What about hearing aids?
>
>Actually, you should not be so surprised. Remember the whole beef
>about Class A and Class B computing devices? I don't remember what
>each of those classes is, though one is for business use, and one is
>for domestic use, but the point is that with chips operating at
>multiple MHZ, they emit RF frequency signals. Most computer manuals
>will tell you that if your computer screws up your TV reception,
>'reorient the antenna or move the computer to a different location.'
>
>That means that the RF can interfere with TV,and so I assume that it
>can interfere with avionics. If you don't believe me, put a radio next
>to your computer, and see what it does. You can actually tune the
>radio to the frequency of your keyboard, so that everytime you press a
>key, you get a warble on the radio...
>
From my knowlegde when I interned at PanAm there are a few things that can 
happen. The most annoying is that the pilots radios' get popping and static 
on  them so they often have to repeat what they say, and at the worst they
cockpit can get false warning lights from various parts of the airplane like 
the engines. The reason electronics are such a pain for the airplanes is
that they aren't well shielded, that addes much too much wieght. 
AirForce One was suppossed to have all kinds of shielding for the wires but 
it turned out the plane would be unable to fly at all it was so heavy, so 
they changed to fiber.

>>My kingdom for a high-speed rail system in the U.S.
>
>No disagreement on that one...
>
I third this motion.
_____________________________________________________________________
|Stephan Fassmann  Internet: $stephan@sasb.byu.edu  GEnie: S.FASSMANN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: jeff@eng.umd.edu (Jeffrey Frey)
Subject: PCMCIA FM-RCARD - Correct your records!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 12:35:08 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

By the way, most palmtop discussions are in comp.sys.palmtops.

                        MS-DOS PCMCIA Palmtop Computers

Name          CPU        MHz     W x D x H          Weight      Display RAM     Slots        Cost       Battery
                                               

FMRcard    80C286    4/8  295X210X26.5mm   900g        640X400 dot   2 PCMCIA   Y198K   2 AA, 
				          2 gray level    (JEIDA v4)              8 hrs claimed
				          VRAM 4kB		      @ 4MHz*
				          (not really VGA)

   *I've never got more than 2 hours of continuous use at 4MHz
ALSO:  Non-backlit LCD, not a great contrast ratio, but after all it's running on 3V.
          Output ports: 1-RS232C serial (25 pin); 1 proprietary bus for floppy disc, RAM add-on, modem
          Included RAM: 1Mb, expandable externally to 3
                       ROM: 2Mb; contains DOS-3.22 (Abort? Retry? Fail? asked in Japanese), 
                       		calendar, calculator, comm. software including XMODEM, 
			network software, Japanese wordprocessing.

GOOD:  Weight, size of keyboard and screen (comfortable typing and seeing, when the light is right), use
	of AA cells.
NOT SO GOOD:     NOT PC-compatible so I can't use GeoWorks
	      Only English-language software available in card form is WordStar 5.0, which is OK
	        since I'm a WordStar fan.  Otherwise, Japanese Microsoft Works, Multiplan, Chart, and
	        Lotus 1-2-3, as well as BASIC and a lot of other packages.


Incidentally PCMCIA cards are clearly going to take over storage for small computers, so it might make sense
for prospective buyers who even now insist on having hard disks and floppies to look for a computer that
contains, in addition to those, a PCMCIA slot--e.g., the Sharp 6781, which looks like a very good buy to me.
Anyone have any experience with it?

Jeff
From: brennan+@pitt.edu (David P Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: IBM PC Monochrome monitor -> laptop?
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:32:35 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Here's an interesting problem: 
I just bought an original PC (it was $50, what the heck). What I really
wanted it for was the access to a 5.25" drive at home since my primary 
computer there is a 80286 laptop that only has a 3.5" drive. That part is
going great; just hooked up the cable, ran FastLynx and bingo, I now have 
another drive.
Question is, the PC came with a monochrome monitor, and I'd like to hook it
to my laptop CGA port. Needless to say, I have no manuals for this thing.
Am I correct in assuming that if the PC came with a mono monitor, it has
a Hercules mono card, and not a CGA card and won't work? More importantly,
I can't figure out how to power it up- it has one of those goofy cords
that plug into the back of the power supply and not the wall. When I ran a
cheater cord to it, I got nothing. There must be a relay somwhere that only
powers up the monitor when the graphics card is powered up, no?

Aren't antiques fun?

Thanks for the info.
(BTW if anyone wants to unload any of the documentation for the original PC, let
me know, I could at least use the diagnostics manual)
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From: kalin@math.psu.edu ( kalin )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Memory help please!!
Date: 9 Oct 92 23:37:02 GMT
Organization: NOT MUCH

In article <1992Oct9.100018.239@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu> krschimm@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (Karl Schimmel) writes:

   Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
   From: krschimm@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (Karl Schimmel)
   Date: 9 Oct 92 10:00:18 CST
   Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks
   Lines: 8

   HELP!
   I need to find a cheaper source for memory for my
   nec 386sx prospeed laptop! NEC wants way too much for a 4mb
   board(something like $350) but I have never seen NEC memory for
   laptops in any ads (like in compushopper)
   any leads would be great

Not looking carefully..
Worldwide Technologies 800 922 4640
386sx/16 4M for $450  PC-21-22
         2M     $200
	 8M     $875

First Source International 800 535 5892
	2M 	$159
no 4M modules listed

H.Co 800 800-5292 (this is right ;)
	2M	$259
	4M	$399

Try a company called SHECOM look it up in the advertiser's index
I have noticed they have the lowest memory quotes...
make sure you are getting the PC-21-22 part - not some unknown thingy.
kalin
Xref: sparky comp.sys.laptops:3953 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:13719
From: bmu@sbfdk.sbf.dk (Boerge Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: A steady booting Compag lite
Keywords: QEMM,COMPAQ
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:39:24 GMT
Organization: Great Belt ltd. Denmark

Hi folks
A got my self a wierd problem.
We have just bougth a Compag Lte 25c (one of the new coler laptops
from Compag, wery nice btw). But I have a very wierd problem.

When installing this line in config.sys, I have a cycling booting
device insted of a high powered colorfull laptop. The line looks like:

DEVICE = c:\qemm\qemm386.sys ARAM

Facts:
	QEMM version 6.11 is used
	COMPAQ DOS 5.0 is used
	COMPAQ SETUP v. 8.08 have been runned on the machine.

Thats all, hopefully someone out there can help me.

-- 
From:
Boerge Mueller  (Project manager CAD & Technical information systems)
Great Belt Ltd.                    |--------------------------------|
Phone  : +45 3393 5200 x 222       | I don't know what the          |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Memory help please!!
From: krschimm@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (Karl Schimmel)
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:00:18 CST
Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks

HELP!
I need to find a cheaper source for memory for my
nec 386sx prospeed laptop! NEC wants way too much for a 4mb
board(something like $350) but I have never seen NEC memory for
laptops in any ads (like in compushopper)
any leads would be great


Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: jcrawfor@note.nsf.gov (Jim Crawford)
Subject: 3rd-party PCMCIA cards
Followup-To: comp.sys.laptops
Organization: National Science Foundation
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:15:13 GMT

Hi.  I just read in John Dvorak's "Inside Track" in the Oct.13 PC Magazine
about a company called New Media that specializes in PCMCIA-standard cards
(and certain non-standard cards).  Dvorak was talking about memory cards
for the Toshiba T4400SXC.  According to him, the memory from New Media was
1/2 the price of the Toshiba memory, and worked just as well.  Would be
nice if they also made PCMCIA modems!

Thought this might be of interest to this group.  New Media's address is:
   
     15375 Barranca Pkwy., B-101
     Irvine, CA  97218
     Phone:  (717) 453-0100
     Fax:  (717) 453-0114
From: U53966@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: T4400sx (486 notebook4sale repostcorr)
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:05:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: uicvm.92282.170516U53966
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Supersedes: <92282.152151U53966@uicvm.uic.edu>

Help i need to sell a T4400sx notebook
486 processor
120 MB Hard drive
3.5 Floppy
2MB on board
expand with card to 12mb (can be done by you)
$2500 or best offer
email  u53966@uicvm.uic.edu or call
708-869-3415
up to 12:00 pm
Thanks,  AM
From: hm342st@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Michael Staats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Memory for Goldstar/Profex Laptop
Date: 12 Oct 1992 14:01:56 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
NNTP-Posting-Host: unidui.uni-duisburg.de

Hello,

I posted this to a german group already, but I got no
response. I'm looking for a memory expansion for a Profex LT 55,
which seems to be identical to a Goldstar GS 520 (?). I
couldn't find it in germany, so any help (like adresses of
computer shops who would ship the expansion or the layout
of the memory card etc.) would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Michael

-- 
Michael Staats, Student of Theoretical Physics, Uni-GH Duisburg 
BTW: I'm looking for a Makefile which takes physical model, applied methods,
expected results and literature references as input and generates a master
thesis in Theoretical Physics to save time for reading news. Help me, please!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
From: fs8j@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Fraser Street)
Subject: BIOS password problem
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:40:13 GMT

Some unauthorized person has activated the BIOS password facility on
one of our laboratory Zenith PC's.  The machine in question is a
Zenith Data Systems Z-368 20 Mhz.


We find a reference in the manual (pg. S-2) to an EEPROM described as
"1024 bit non-volatile memory stores user passoword".  We've pulled
various chips off the board in the vacinity of the BIOS but to no
avail.  We would like to know the precise location of this EEPROM.  We
are prepared to replace the chip if necessary.


If you have any other tips, or know the phone number for a
service/tech support person that could help us we would be most
grateful.


Thanks in advance.

Fraser

-- 

Fraser Street
fraser@Virginia.EDU
University of Virginia
Computer Networks Laboratory

Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
From: fs8j@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Fraser Street)
Subject: BIOS password - solution
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:34:50 GMT

Sorry to have wasted bandwidth on my previous post concerning my 
problem that someone had set the password on my machine.  The solution
was just a phone call away - at Zenith tech support.

Here it is:

Call Zenith at 800-227-3360

or

Look on the I/O board right below the dianostic LED's - you'll find an
8 pin chip - that's the EEPROM for the password.  Pull it and your back
in business.  

The folks at tech support can give you a little procedure for pulling it
and bending some pins in order to reburn the chip, if you prefer.

Fraser

-- 

Fraser Street
fraser@Virginia.EDU
University of Virginia
Computer Networks Laboratory