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From: gentry@predator.engin.umich.edu (Denton Gentry)
Subject: Re: Armwrist watch with docking station
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 19:55:00 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: gentry@predator.engin.umich.edu


  Seiko made a similar device, called the MacWatch or something. It had a 
serial port, and a data storage capability for phone numbers etc. I saw it 
about a year ago in a MacWarehouse catalog, I don't know if it is being sold 
currently or not. 

Denny Gentry
University of Michigan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: gagnon@Panda1.UOttawa.CA (Jean-Serge Gagnon)
Subject: Re: Armwrist watch with docking station
Organization: Computing & Comm. Services, University of Ottawa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 17:15:13 GMT

In article <9204081005.AA41623@menora.weizmann.ac.il> dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld) writes:
>This is an idea of mine. Would be interesting to hear comments about it.
>
>Imagine a wristwatch with the following capabilities:
>
>   1.  Time, date, stopwatch, downtimer (normal stuff)
>   2.  Address book
>   3.  Notes (in order to enter e.g. todo stuff and shopping lists.)
>   4.  Calendar with alarm at predescribed date-time and then shows
>       a recorded message.
>
>Dov Grobgeld                                         ( o  o  ) o   |

How about a radio signal? I mean, it could receive a signal from your PC,
while your typing in the comands. Of course, it would have to be close, like
when your typing on the keyboard, maybe a rang of 3-10feet. Your PC would,
of course have a trasmiter and the proper software, but it would be fabulous.
Every morning, you turn your PC on and check "things to do", press upload
to watch, and voila, your watch alarms and whatevers are set. You would
just need enough memory in the watch to store the day's or week's activities.

Is it currently possible? 

Just an idea.

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.handhelds:1281 comp.sys.palmtops:1549
From: jew@grissom.sunquest.com (Ward...  James Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: HP95LXers, where are you?
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:12:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.handhelds
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems

Seems there are things happening with the HP95LX that aren't being
covered here.  Where is everybody exchanging information, COMPUSERVE?
GENIE?  Is there a way to get an e-mail feed?
--
jew@sunquest.com

Xref: sparky comp.sys.handhelds:1283 misc.forsale.computers:17167
From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Handheld stuff for sale
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:42:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr9.124223.2762
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Originator: kolstad@ws-7.cae.wisc.edu


I have a bunch of handheld computerish/calculatorish stuff left over from the
days before HP-48's.  The prices below include ground shipping.  If you
think the prices are unreasonable but still like the item, feel free to make
an offer.

Casio FX-4000P calculator:  This is a 550 step programmable model from a
few generations back in the Casio line.  It's either 12 or 16 character
LCD alphanumeric display.  Basically, it's equivalent to the FX-7000G minus
the graphics.  $18

Seiko Spanish Translator: This is one of those small little translator "cards"
that let you type in a word and translate it to or from Spanish.  It has an
80,000 word vocabulary.  I believe it's the top of the line from Seiko in the
"claculator card" style.  It has a flat keyboard that works just fine.  (For
some odd reason, only Casio and Seiko seem to know how to make flat
keyboards... the others all suck!)  It'll also function as a standard 4
function calculator and currency exchange converter.  Model TR-1400. $50

Data Spirit.  What's that?  Never heard of it?  Well, ever heard of a Casio
PB-1000 palmtop computer?  Didn't think so.  Anyway, this is the only piece
of software ever realized commercially for the Casio PB-1000 in the U.S.
It's a pseudo-database program that draws lots of pretty graphs, given the
PB-1000's plotter to work with.  It comes on disk, so you'll need the
MD-100 disk drive to read it in.  $10 (And it cost a LOT more when I got it,
years ago!)

Oh yeah... want a genuine MD-100 power adapter?  It you can cough up $6, it's
yours.

Printer.  What printer?  One of those Casio thermal printers for their
little handheld computers, such as the FX-790P, FX-795P, etc.  Radio Shack
sold the FX-790P under the guise of "PC-6"  It also works with what Radio
Shack calls the PC-4 and PC-5, the Casio models numbers of which I don't know.
It's rechargeable, and I'll throw in the couple extra rolls of paper I have.
Radio Shack still sells these for $100!  What a laugh!  You can have mine
for only $45.  If you need an extension cable (the FX-790P/PC-6 doe), you
can have mine for $5 more.

Casette interface.  For what?  Same little handheld computers as above.
Radio Shack sells the bigger, older version of these for $40.  You can have
mine for $20.

My e-mail address is kolstad@cae.wisc.edu.

						---Joel Kolstad
From: dchien@boole.seas.ucla.edu (David H. Chien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Armwrist watch with docking station
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:11:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles


    Can't read japanese, but in a current issue of MONO (published in Japan)
and other new product magazines (lots of these in Japan), there is such an
animal advertised by Casio.  The watch itself can display Kanji (Chinese 
characters) and English alphanumerics in a stainless steel case and band.
Dock it to a i/o connector w/ a Casio organizer (similar to Sharp Wizards)
to download/modify data.  
    Seems to fit what you are talking about, and I'm sorry that I can't read
any more info out of those advertisements.

    BTW, in another ad, they had a classic gold face/dial analog watch w/no
date, leather strap, looks really cool, and made by Casio.  But when you flip
the face up (watch splits in half, hinged at the top), on the other side of
the face is a digital lcd display, the other a pad for entering data (similar
to Casio's databank/telememo watches) such as memos, phone numbers, and events.

    david chien :)    dchien@boole.seas.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: michele@apex.yorku.ca (Michele Marques)
Subject: Sharp PC-Link Question
Organization: York University, Help Services, CCS
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:50:32 GMT


Does anyone know if the Wizard and Sharp ZQ-5100 use the same PC-Link
program?  Or, better yet, has anyone use/modified the ftp-able
PC-Link C code with a Sharp ZQ-5100?


		-- Michele

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
Subject: Armwrist watch with docking station
Organization: Mail to News Gateway
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 13:05:04 WETDST

This is an idea of mine. Would be interesting to hear comments about it.

Imagine a wristwatch with the following capabilities:

   1.  Time, date, stopwatch, downtimer (normal stuff)
   2.  Address book
   3.  Notes (in order to enter e.g. todo stuff and shopping lists.)
   4.  Calendar with alarm at predescribed date-time and then shows
       a recorded message.

All capabilites should be accessed by a few buttons, with emphisize
on retrieval of data. They should allow for entering of data, but
this may be quite slow and akward.

The display of the watch holds 15*6 characters corresponding to a
bitmap of 120*60 pixels (assuming characters of 8x10 pixels). More
characters can be squeezed in for users with normal eye sight.

The main power of the watch will lie in its docking station. In order
to enter data into the watch in a convienient way, the watch is inserted
into a docking station, which connects either to a handheld computer
or to desktop or laptop PC. A user friendly program allows for easy
editing of the data in the watch. Perhaps the docking station could
be replaced with an IR connection.

Another possibility is to equip the watch with a small plug which
connects to a larger keyboard (e.g. the size of a credit card
calculator.) Again perhaps an IR connection would be possible.

Of course, being able to enter notes into the watch with a pen would
be even simpler, but that is outside of the techniqual capabilities
as of now.

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Dov Grobgeld                                         ( o  o  ) o   |
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel             \  o  /o  o /
"Where the tree of wisdom carries oranges"              | |   | |
                                                       _| |_ _| |_



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From: smithj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Jeremy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Armwrist watch with docking station
Date: 9 Apr 92 08:15:31 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

In article <9204081005.AA41623@menora.weizmann.ac.il> dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld) writes:
>
>Imagine a wristwatch with the following capabilities:
>
>   1.  Time, date, stopwatch, downtimer (normal stuff)
>   2.  Address book
>   3.  Notes (in order to enter e.g. todo stuff and shopping lists.)
>   4.  Calendar with alarm at predescribed date-time and then shows
>       a recorded message.
>

add: temperature, pressure (converted to altitude).


>The main power of the watch will lie in its docking station. In order
>to enter data into the watch in a convienient way, the watch is inserted
>into a docking station, which connects either to a handheld computer
>or to desktop or laptop PC. A user friendly program allows for easy
>editing of the data in the watch. Perhaps the docking station could
>be replaced with an IR connection.

This excellent idea has been done, to some degree, by Casio(?).

>Dov Grobgeld                                         ( o  o  ) o   |


-- 
Jeremy |-) Smith	The Tao of Wayne and Garth: "Way!"
From: HCLIMER@UTCVM.BITNET (Harold Climer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP28S stuff for sale
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:32:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: gacvx1.6BC8225CC000FF7C
Return-path: <HCLIMER@UTCVM.BITNET>
To: handhelds@gacvx1.gac.edu


                 I have the following for sale:
 
         1 HP28S Calculator   with leather case.
         1 Easy Course in the HP28S by Grapevine Publications
         The following "Step by Step" Solutions Books:
 
                1 Mathematical Applications
                1 Algebra and College Math
                1 Probability and Statistics
                1 Vectors and Matrices
                1 Calculus
 
          Original cost of Leather Case. $20.00
          Original Cost of Solutions Books $10.00 ea
          Original Cost of Easy Course in HP28S $22.00
 
      Would prefer to sell as a package for $130.00 + Shipping Costs.
      However will sell Calculator and Case seperate from the rest for
      $110.00 + Shipping costs,and all  the books for $35.00 + Shipping.
 
                If interested send E-Mail to HClimer @ UTCVM.BITNET or call
 The Physics Dept. U. Tennessee at Chattanooga at 1-615-755-4546 and leave a
  message for me. Or Call 1-615-476-5141 after 8 PM EDT
 
    The Calculator includess original Manuals.
From: dug@kd4nc.uucp (Doug Drye KD4NC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Armwrist watch with docking station
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:12:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: kd4nc.1992Apr13.041232.19406
Organization: KD4NC HAM Packet Radio Gateway

smburke@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean M Burke) writes:

>I think Seiko made a watch exactly like this quite a few years ago.  It was
>very expensive, which is probably why it was discontinued.
>-- 
>     Sean M. Burke    |  sean.burke@osu.edu  |  The Ohio-State University  
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     My Opinions are my own.  If you like them, a lease plan is available!
>             Yield to Temptation--It may not pass your way again!

Yep.. I've owned three of them.......

It is called the Seiko RC-4000.
they made a wrist and a pocket model of it...
it would accept a download from a PC or Mac and came with software for
one or the other... you could also UPLOAD!!! to your computer with an
optional adaptor (level conversion since the watch was single voltage...)

My first one croaked after several years of HARD use ... (I am rough on watches)
I lost the second one...and  am wearing my third...

Since I started using palmtops, I rarely use the features...
I originally bought from it Fordham for $169
Watches numbers two and three cost me $40
and $15 respectively.. there's a guy who comes to a local hamfest
that apparently got a pile of them at one time...

It's a pain to enter data from directly into the watch...
but I sometimes key in a short message and an alarm when I'm not
in a position to carry my HP95LX... (wet or dirty locations, etc) to remind
me to do something...

I've never seen them available from any mail-order or store other
	than Fordham...

Doug

-- 
Doug Drye KD4NC
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 22:22:00 +0000
From: Wolfram_Herzog@mowgli.fido.de (Wolfram Herzog)
Subject: Link software for ZQ-5100
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Distribution: world
X-Comment-To: Michele_Marques@f11.n7000.z2.fidonet.org (Michele Marques)
Organization: Mowgli-BBS - AMIGA/HP48 only, +49-241-405949, V32bis, HST 

At the 07-04-92 12:50 Michele Marques wrote:

>Does anyone know if the Wizard and Sharp ZQ-5100 use the same PC-Link
>program?  

The SHARP ZQ-5100 acts exactly identical as an IQ-7000 (or OZ-7000) 
with an inserted TIME EXPENSE MANAGER IC-Card.

So if you don't want to transmit the DO-LIst and Expense-List you 
can use the same software.

    Yours
       WOLFRAM HERZOG

---
From: aroest@fwi.uva.nl (Axello de Roestello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Armwrist watch with docking station
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:42:01 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam

dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld) writes:

>This is an idea of mine. Would be interesting to hear comments about it.

>Imagine a wristwatch with the following capabilities:

>   1.  Time, date, stopwatch, downtimer (normal stuff)
>   2.  Address book
>   3.  Notes (in order to enter e.g. todo stuff and shopping lists.)
>   4.  Calendar with alarm at predescribed date-time and then shows
>       a recorded message.

Seiko has made a watch (quite) exactly like the one you describe. It's a couple
of years old. They sold them here (The Netherlands, Europe) for about $50 for
one with a pc link (including software) The one with the keyboard docking
was about $150. I think they didn't sell to well because the display was very 
small, only one or two lines of 10 characters or so.

Seiko also made a 'handheld' watch (something like the old pocket-watch) with
the same functions. These were sold at a sale for about $25.

Not anymore though

Axel
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.palmtops
From: fin@unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth)
Subject: Freyja V1.4
Organization: University of Minnesota, Networking Services.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:27:19 GMT


A new version of Freyja has just been released.  The major changes are:

- Fix bug in reading files > 8K.
- The file getter now works like it does in all other system-manager
applications.
- Added new options to freyja.ini:

	- can not skip system buffers when moving among buffers
	- can swap the ^X key with another
	- ^X^S can be set to only save if there are changes

- ^G now cancels out of the menu and file getter in the system-manager
version.
- Fixed a bug in the Help screen.
- Fixed a word wrap bug.
- Moved the filename to the end of the status line.

(See the README file for a complete list of changes.)

Copies can be obtained like before:

Diskette: Send the author blank diskettes:

	- two, 5 1/4" (360 KB) or
	- one, 3 1/2" (either 720 KB or 1.44 MB)

and enough stamps to cover return postage plus a dollar or so (so that
I can buy a diskette mailer).  Or you can just send me about US$3.00
in check, stamp, whatever and I will furnish the diskette(s) and
mailer.

Anonymous FTP:
	mail.unet.umn.edu in (****new locations****)
		import/fin/freyja.exe	(MS/DOS self-extracting archive)
		import/fin/freyja.tar	(UNIX tar file)
		import/fin/freyja.tar.Z	(compressed UNIX tar file)
		import/fin/freyja.txt	(README file)
	eddie.mit.edu (may take a couple of days to get here)
		distrib/hp95lx/editors/freya.tar.Z
		distrib/hp95lx/editors/freya.exe

Please keep those comments coming.  However, I hope that this wil be
the last version for a while, as I am working on some new software...

Craig A. Finseth			fin@unet.umn.edu
1343 Lafond				Craig.Finseth@nic.mr.net
St Paul MN 55104-2437			+1 612 644 4027
USA
From: HCLIMER%UTCVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Harold Climer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: I need advice on a TI battery pack
Date: 11 Apr 92 14:29:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:21 CST
To: handhelds@gac.edu

On Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:21 CST you said:
>Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site gacvx2.gac.edu
>Path:
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> zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!dorothy.cis.ohio-state.edu!geary
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
>Subject: I need advice on a TI battery pack
>Message-ID: <1992Apr10.165825.1566@cis.ohio-state.edu>
>From: geary@cis.ohio-state.edu (Lord High Everything Else)
>Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:58:25 GMT
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>
>    I got a TI-55 (maybe 57, the lowest programmable one) at a garage
>sale a few years ago for $5. The battery pack has recently gone dead
>and I'm not really interested in paying $11 for a new one for a $5
>calculator. If I could just replace the batteries themselves for $2-3
>that might be worth it. However when I opened up the battery pack, I
>didn't see any markings on the batteries. So what I'd like to find out
>is, can I replace these with standard nickle-cadmium batteries?
>
>Mark Geary
>--
>    "Build high for happiness."



                 Mark,
                      In the early 80's Dr. Eric Lane ,here at the Physics
 Department replaced some battery packs original batteries with G.E. NiCads.
                     Although he might not be able to tell you exactly about
your situation,he might be able to give you some ideas of what to look for in
 any batteries you might be considering for replacements. If interested in
contacting him send E-Mail to ERICLANE at UTCVM.BITNET. ( BTW he also
subscribes to the Handheld conference as well to the HP48 conference.)

                                          Harold Climer
                                          Physics Dept.
                                          U. Tennessee at Chattanooga
From: lisa@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Lisa Stroyan)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:30:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Psion Organizer II XPs for sale
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds

In comp.sys.handhelds, smithh@atc.boeing.com (Lonnie Smith) writes:

>I'm trying to get a handle on the architecture(s) of the systems frequently 
>described in this news group.  So, a "Psion Organizer II" is not a meaningful
>tag for me at the moment.  Is there a FAQ or other document which describes
>the palmtop computers y'all talk about?

Actually, I think palmtops in general are supposed to be in the domain
of the group, "comp.sys.palmtops", not "comp.sys.handhelds".  So you
might want to ask there. Apparently this "for sale" note was cross-posted
to both groups.

Lisa
From: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP95LXers, where are you?
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:09:54 GMT
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center

In article <JEW.92Apr9081237@grissom.grissom.sunquest.com> jew@grissom.sunquest.com (Ward...  James Ward) writes:
>Seems there are things happening with the HP95LX that aren't being
>covered here.  Where is everybody exchanging information, COMPUSERVE?
>GENIE?  Is there a way to get an e-mail feed?

Most of the useful stuff I have learned has come from the Palmtop section
of the HPSYS Forum on Compuserve. I have not counted the messages, but others
have estimated an average of 100 messages/day. This seems about correct to
me. You can send e-mail to people on Compuserve, but I do not believe
Forum messages can be read without signing up and paying the standard
connect time fees, currently $12.80/hour for 2400 baud.

The cost is high, but the info is worth it.

Vic Roberts
GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
roberts@crd.ge.com
From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:21:07 GMT
Subject: Re: HP95LXers, where are you?
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds

In comp.sys.handhelds, jew@grissom.sunquest.com (Ward...  James Ward) writes:

> Seems there are things happening with the HP95LX that aren't being
> covered here.  Where is everybody exchanging information, COMPUSERVE?
> GENIE?  Is there a way to get an e-mail feed?

     The newsgroup in which most of the 95lx-related discussion occurs
is comp.sys.palmtops.  However, the activity there is nothing compared
to the activity in one of the HP forums (HPSYS???) on CompuServe.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: smburke@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean M Burke)
Subject: Re: Armwrist watch with docking station
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:56:31 GMT

I think Seiko made a watch exactly like this quite a few years ago.  It was
very expensive, which is probably why it was discontinued.
-- 
     Sean M. Burke    |  sean.burke@osu.edu  |  The Ohio-State University  
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     My Opinions are my own.  If you like them, a lease plan is available!
             Yield to Temptation--It may not pass your way again!
From: akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Andrey Dolgachev)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:40:04 GMT
Subject: Apple Palmtop
Message-ID: <29e482c7.4501comp.sys.handhelds@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds

Apple is due out with a palmtop later this year, well at the end of the
year.  Does anyone out there have any information on this project?  Apple
hasn';t realeased any info on it yet.
   Thanks,
    Andrey Dolgachev