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From: pete@cirrus.com (Pete Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: notes on ZEOS PPC
Keywords: ZEOS TRANTOR CDROM SOLECTEK
Date: 24 Dec 92 00:53:25 GMT
Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.  Fremont, California


I got one of the ZEOS Pocket PCs about two weeks ago, and I've tried it out 
with a few things. It seems to work well with the TRANTOR SCSI PLUS, and a 
CD-ROM player. MSCDEX is running. Just reading text, tar, copy, etc.

The SOLECTEK pocket LAN adapter has a test program that tells you whether 
your parallel port is compatible. It says that the ZEOS is OK. The cable 
plus adapter combo isn't very pretty, but its the only option, because the
PCMCIA slots are v1.0 (memory only) and type I (3mm only).  I'm going to 
try it with a Beame & Whiteside NFS demo disk when that arrives.  Their 
protocol stack only uses about 60K of RAM.

Someone mentioned the right shift key. Its small and seems too far to the 
right, I keep missing it and hitting the up arrow key. Otherwise the keyboard 
is tolerable.

The manual is 214 pages, 160 of which are for MS-WORKS.  RacePen takes another 
25. there's a short appendix on DOS.  Works has built-in XMODEM, which i used 
to copy Interlink to another machine. This utility mounts ones machine's 
drives onto another through the serial line. Once it's running, there's no 
need to bother with XMODEM. They even include a 9 pin null modem, plus serial 
and parallel cables that go from their micro connectors to standard DB-9,25.

Hope this is of use to someone. I'll follow up with more results as I get them.

(won't be reading any news/email for a week though)

-- 
Pete Carpenter                           pete@cirrus.com
                                
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,
One man gathers what another man spills. - Robert Hunter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: Re: Your chance to spend someone else's $$$! 
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:06:19 GMT

Well, we're getting down to the wire.  I'm currently leaning toward
the 95LX, since I should be able to run Memory Mate on it and the
memory cards are less expensive / non-proprietary.  The OZ-9600 still
looks real tempting, though.

Hmmm...  The 95LX is a "mature" product (by palmtop standards) meaning
that I'll probably buy it and they'll announce the 8MB POSIX-compliant
version the next day :-)  The OZ-9600 is so new it may have
undiscovered bugs -- also I think a big chunk of the price reflects
the drawing feature, which is probably of limited usefulness.

Does anyone know if Sharp has fixed the power problem that was on the
original Wizard?  I have to support a couple of these for some
executives, and by the time the "BAT" indicator comes on, there's not
enough power left to run the PC-LINK for a backup before changing the
batteries!  (Stupid!)  If the OZ-9600 is like this too, there's no way
I'd buy it.  I'm sure it's fixed by now, though...?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
Subject: Sharp WIZARD (tm) for sale
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:15:15 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Sharp WIZARD 128k for sale.  Includes spelling/dictionary/thesaurus
card and original manual.  I believe this configuration is being
marketed for $380 retail.

Will sell for $200.

Contact me though e-mail.
-- 
Daniel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: rob@phoenix.erc.clarkson.edu (Rob Logan)
Subject: Sharp 9600
Reply-To: rob@phoenix.erc.clarkson.edu
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:17:16 GMT

can the sharp 9600 do an appointment for "the second tue of every month"?

The HP95 can, but its a pain.

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From: george@ucs.ubc.ca (George Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Can you wake up HP95 and run a program
Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:15:00 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: swiss.ucs.ubc.ca

In article <1992Dec28.154114.16150@rock.concert.net> gingell@rock.concert.net (Michael J Gingell -- Personal Account) writes:
>
>Having some specific needs for an automatic remote control
>I have just installed myRemote on my HP95 and it works very well.
>So far I have tested on 3 different VCRs, 2 satellite receivers,
>a pioneer multi-cassette tape deck and a remote control AV switch.
>All work perfectly.

I haven't tried any of the HP95 sampling remote program. How large is each
sample?

>Now my problem.  What I would like to do is to be able to program
>a sequence of events at different times on different days and have
>it run the myRemote program. (It does have a built in timer but
>only up to 24 hours from the time you launch a command).  

So myRemote has a internal timer that knows how to wake up the 95 and do a
command, but only within 24 hours? Why not contact the author and see if
he's willing to extend its capabilities?

>Ideally
>the apointment book would wake up the 95 at the right time and
>call a .bat file to run myRemote which is a DOS compliant program
>only.
>
>I have tried several vanilla DOS scheduling programs some work and
>some don't.  Those that work only do so if the 95 is awake at the
>time of the event.

One workable idea would be to plug in an AC adapter and leave the 95 on
all the time. (The 95 won't do an auto-shutdown if it's running off the AC
adapter.) Kludgy...

>As far as I can see there is no built in feature to do this - has
>anyone got any suggestions?

Best idea: get a 48sx. I just finished an alarm-clock program on my 48sx.
It currently recognizes each day of the week and also holidays. It took me
just a day to write the core code. I've pretty well finished cleaning up 
and optimizing the code. If you're cost conscious, the 48s will do too.
Each sample is about 600bytes on the 48. With even just 32K (and various
overheads), you've still got room for about 45-50 commands. Good enough for
me.

>Thanks - Mike

George

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: cedler@boi.hp.com (Chris Edler)
Subject: Re: efms
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:57:52 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

..I just noticed that I did not describe what efms was, for those who haven't
encountered it.

efms stands for 'Everyone's File Management System'.  It is a database
application for the 95.  You can create screen forms, and the application
creates indexed database files on your palmtop.  You can create reports and
export delimited data files of your database.

It looks pretty slick.  I'm considering using it for a data entry application.

-Chris


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Christopher Edler				Hewlett-Packard Company	
cedler@boi.hp.com				Boise, Idaho USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.handhelds
From: tal@netcom.com (Tal Dayan)
Subject: Psion Technical Support, my experience...
Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:11:17 GMT


I am really impressed with Psion Technical Support.  Yesterday night I
faxed them a problem description. This morning, when I arrived at the
office, the answer already there.  It was informative and has a solution
which works. I really appreciate it.

Tal Dayan

tal@netcom.com

BTW, if Psion marketing would be half as good as their products and
technical support, this would be a winning combination.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: alh@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Al Harrington)
Subject: Re: Using InfoSelect on HP95... Great!
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:10:30 GMT
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

I've been using InfoSelect on my 95 for about 6 months.  It is a good tool
for the 95.

They just released a Windows version which I purchased but haven't received
yet.  This would make a nice combinations.

BTW, my choice for PIMs on the PC is PackRat.  This combined with 
IntelliLink (a package that translates between PackRat and others to/from
the 95) is great!

---
  Al Harrington
  Hewlett-Packard
  Roseville Networks Division
  (916) 785-5150
  alh@hprnd.rose.hp.com
  (standard disclaimer applies...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: fuchs@tsar.princeton.edu (Ira H. Fuchs)
Subject: ir95.zip posted to eddie.mit.edu
Originator: news@nimaster
Reply-To: fuchs@tsar.princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:04:30 GMT

I have placed a copy of the ir95 software from Gilles Kohl in  
eddie.mit.edu:distrib/hp95lx/inbound.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Low battery warning on HP 95 with Millennium Batteries
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:32:37 GMT

wse@helios.dfci.harvard.edu (William Edwards) writes:

>I seem to be getting this spuriously with several sets of Millennium A
>batteries--funny thing is that the battery graph under Setup shows the
>batteries as being at least at 50%.  Also, the low battery warning
>goes away when I press a key.  Has anybody else seen this?  Please
>respond by email, and I will summarize.  Thanks. -- Bill Edwards

Two things.  First, NiCds output a lower voltage, typically 1.2V per cell.
This may not be enough to prevent a low battery warning.
The discharge curve for NiCds is also very different from the one for
regular dry cells.  It tends to drop off very slowly until the very end, when
it will suddenly dive.  This pattern could be fooling the graph; the
level could be higher than the 50% mark of the typical carbon-zinc batteries
that the HP-95 was intended to use.

-JTT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
Subject: Re: Your chance to spend someone else's $$$!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:54:42 GMT

gordon hlavenka writes:
> For tax reasons I need to spend about $850 by the end of the end of
> the year, and I have decided I need :-) a palmtop

Hot dog!  Run (do not walk) to your nearest gadget store and
buy the Wizard 9600 with all the trimmings.  It will do all
you mention, plus tons more.  My experience with palm-top
"PCs" (I had an HP-95lx for a while, and then sold it to get
a Wizard 8000) is that they are just so-so organizers, and
bloody awful PCs; very limited and very fragile; they'll crash
if you look at them cross-eyed.  The Wizard does lots and lots
more organizer stuff, like very elaborate appointment and
to-do lists, an outliner, three seperate phone lists with 
user-definable extra fields, business contact "list" that's
actually a small database, and on and on.  I played with a
9600 yesterday, and it's very, very cool, with Mac-like
menus, a neat drawing function, and a nice big keyboard you
can actually type on.  The overall size is probably too big to
comfortably fit in a coat pocket, but it easily gets lost in your
briefcase.  For the money you have to spend, you can get the
unit and every major accessory.  Be sure to get the spread-
sheet card; it's a very good spreadsheet. Good luck...

************************
* These are my opinions only.*
************************
From: lindgren@ae.chalmers.se (ULF A LINDGREN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Add RAM to a Wizard 64K?
Date: 23 Dec 92 09:01:42 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Applied Electronics. Chalmers Univ. of Technology.

In article <1992Dec11.155621.9916@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>, wentzel@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Kevin Wentzel) writes:
> On the subject of taking your palmtop appart...
> 
> Does anyone know if it's possible to add RAM to a Wizard OZ8000 (64K)
> to get it up to 128K?  Anyone ever taken one of these things appart?
> Someone have a dead one around for experimentation?
> 
> Kevin
From: cedler@boi.hp.com (Chris Edler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: efms
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:28:32 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

I've been playing with the efms95 package, and I looked for the manual in the
zip package and couldn't find it.

I suppose that the manual comes with the registered version, but I'd like to
read the manual first before buying a copy.

Does anyone have a copy of the manual?  If not, does anyone know how the 
control keys are mapped?  I noticed that Ctrl-D pastes the current date in
the field (no, I don't think 95-buddy does it...the date is in a different
format).  Does efms have other control-key functions, like timestamping?

Thanks,
Chris

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Christopher Edler				Hewlett-Packard Company	
cedler@boi.hp.com				Boise, Idaho USA
From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: 95LX databases
Date: 24 Dec 1992 23:32:35 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: peregrine


In article <20809@acorn.co.uk> asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) writes:
>
>I have just finished an E number database for the 95LX,..
>
>It loads into the phone book,...

That's clever, to use the phone book to access a database.  What do
you do if you want the records sorted by other than alphabetic order?

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
	"Towards the end, the smell of their air began to change"
From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Low battery warning on HP 95 with Millennium Batteries
Date: 3 Jan 93 08:00:57 GMT
Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India

In article <1993Jan2.134959.28481@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> 
fritzj@gauss.ecn.purdue.edu (Fritz Friedlaender) reveals ...

> c:\_sys\debug < set
> e 40:c8 00
> q

  Interesting.
  Are these memory locations documented somewhere ?

> battery warning in my HP95LX triggers at such a high voltage that
> the use of NiCads is perfectly safe - in fact, I can use them for
> some time after the warning goes off, carefully monitoring my

 In my case, the warning went off, and in a few flits of a second
the machine went into backup mode. So I guess milage varies.

 I have taken to topping up my NiCads daily. I figure its is 
better to have a $5 NiCad suffer from memory than the $500 hp95
to suffer without :-)

-- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu )

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: gingell@rock.concert.net (Michael J Gingell -- Personal Account)
Subject: External Power on 95 affects clock
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:35:56 GMT

After reading some earlier postings and seeing my batteries run down
fast with a lot of RS232 transfers I decided to try a quick fix and
bought the Radio Shack 273-1455 adapter for $7.95.  This adapter (now
called 273-1455C C for made in China ? :-) ) actually generates 11.5
volts DC which drops to 11 volts with a 20 milliamp load.  I think
this may be too high because when I used it yeaterday for about 4s
hours the clock in the 95 gained several minutes. It also made the 95
very slightly warm.  Normaly on batteries my 95 keeps time to within
about 1 second per day.

Has anyone measured the actual voltage developed by a real HP AC
adaptor?.  I think I will buy one, at least I will have a legitimate
complaint if it still gains using the proper adaptor..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: RSTACKHOUSE@JAGUAR.ESS.HARRIS.COM ( 57577 Stackhouse ke)
Subject: CASIO 4300
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:53:50 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24
Organization: Harris Information Systems Division

Can anyone give me information regarding creating an interface between a CASIO 
pt and a rs232?  What is the data transmission method for it?  what is the
protocol?  (eg cross talk?)  Thanks-in-advance. public or private e-mail ok
From: sturm@sun490.fdu.edu (Neal Sturm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: CASIO 4300
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:21:14 GMT
Organization: Fairleigh Dickinson University

I have a casio/BOSS SF-8000. The communications port is a TTL level port
so I put an rs232 driver chip (1488 and 1489) on the transmit and
recieve lines comming out of the casio. I powered them with +/- 12volts
and connected that to my comm port on my pc. Then on the pc I used
Procomm+ to upload my casio database.

I hope this helps...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.handhelds
From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Macros to make DialTone work (after a fashion ;)
Date: 28 Dec 92 19:40:44 GMT
Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India

Hi,

> Like, what machine its for ?

   My aplogies ... in my previous post I should have mentioned ..
those macros are to make the HP95LX program DialTone safe to use.

In case you were wondering ...

-- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu )

PS: Errant article ...

In article <58012@dime.cs.umass.edu> 
   shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar) slipped-up when I wrote ...
> 
>   To those who showed interest in my macros for DialTone. Appended
> below is a file containing them. It handles entries like ...
> 
>     0                                    40 chars   Comment:
>     +------------------------------------+
>      Name:    H. Shrikumar \me                      Name, and \keyword
>      Number: h(413)549-8484,w(413)545-4753          numbers
>      Address:
>      f(413)545-1249                                 more numbers
>      #48 Presidential Apts,                         Rest of address.
>      Amherst, MA 01002
>     +------------------------------------+

...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: trevorc@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: weekabk&buddy
Organization: Nuclear Medicine, U. Western Ontario, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:27:35 GMT

In article <rose.725643276@judy.cs.iastate.edu>, rose@cs.iastate.edu (John T. Rose) writes:
> I need help with two problems!
> 
> Well, this week is week 53 according to weekabk! With buddy also installed
> if I leave this week and try to return I get the message that 53 1992 is an
> invalid week and I should hit ESC to return. But when I hit ESC all I get is
> a beep. The only consistent way out seems to be menu-del which closes all
> apps. If I remove buddy, I still get the invalid week message but my ESC key
> works properly. Any ideas?

I suspect this is a bug in weekabk which probably has an internal limit
of 52!  You can get back to the present week by using "goto" and C/R which
then should bring you back to the present date.  The problem seems to be 
when one uses "week" and enters 53.  Wonder if Ehood (author of weekabk
has seen this one?)
-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: Repeating appointments (was Re: Sharp 9600)
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:09:18 GMT

In article <1h88rcINNt0v@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.211716.13268@news.clarkson.edu> rob@phoenix.erc.clarkson.edu writes:
>>can the sharp 9600 do an appointment for "the second tue of every month"?
>>
>>The HP95 can, but its a pain.
>
>Why is this a pain?: [Appt] [Menu] View/Monthly-Repeat/Position [F8] then
>select the week number, day, start and end time and date, alarm, and leadtime.
>There is also repeat by date.  I've never used it myself, does it work properly?

Yup...I use it for setting up my club meetings and workgroup meetings which
happen on days like the 3rd Tuesday or 2nd Monday. I just wish it would be for
longer than a year....

---Steve

>--
><-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony


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From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: external power on 95
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:50:09 EST
Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

On 01-01-93 MICHAEL J GINGELL -- PERS wrote:

MJGPAfter reading some earlier postings and seeing my batteries run down
MJGPfast with a lot of RS232 transfers I decided to try a quick fix and
MJGPbought the Radio Shack 273-1455 adapter for $7.95.  This adapter (now
MJGPcalled 273-1455C C for made in China ? :-) ) actually generates 11.5
MJGPvolts DC which drops to 11 volts with a 20 milliamp load.  I think
MJGPthis may be too high because when I used it yeaterday for about 4s
MJGPhours the clock in the 95 gained several minutes. It also made the 95
MJGPvery slightly warm.

I use the Radio Shack (Archer) 273-1651B which was recommended in
_Palmtop Papers_. It puts out 9V DC, 500 mA. Clock keeps accurate
time, and 95 doesn't heat up. I also have made a little portable
battery pack by putting four 9V (snaptop) batteries in parallel
and running them into a barrel connector that fits the power port
on the 95. With a little "experimenter's case", four
battery-terminals, and clips to hold the batteries in place in
the case, the cost came to about ten dollars in parts. I use it
whenever I'm doing stationary computing, sitting down, somewhere
I can't plug into the wall. So the only time i run on the 95's
internal batteries is on-the-run.

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