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From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: "pocket" ethernet adapter recs...?
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:17:06 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Office for Information Technology

I am looking for any comments on those little parallel port ethernet
adapters.  I have seen ads for them, but don't have any direct experience
with them.  I just got a PeeCee notebook and need to be able to put it on
various networks.  So I need all sorts of information.  Brands, models,
where to get them, etc.....  What about their performance level?  And is
there a performance difference among brands or models?

My most important concerns are compatibility and ergonomics.  And of course
extremely high price would also be a concern....

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.  If this
is not what I mean, then please clue me in....

As far as ergonomics goes, I guess I am looking for something very small
that doesn't involve lots of extra adapters and wires and things.  I did
notice in some ads a while back that some company was trying to make a
point about their adapters being smaller or using fewer cables than some
other company's product.  Of course I can't seem to find any ads for the
darn things now that I need to buy one....

In case it matters, the machine is a Compudyne 486DX/33, and I would be
interested in hooking it up to 10Base-T ethernet....

Either post here (probably best) or mail to my address below.  If I get
anything significant in e-mail that isn't posted I will summarize it to the
newsgroup....

Thanks much, in advance....

Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT
From: gt9351c@prism.gatech.EDU (The Chowmeister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: T1000SE... is it alright to keep it plugged in all the time?
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:18:52 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

.In article <14425@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o) writes:
.>In article <1992Aug28.235936.5475@news2.cis.umn.edu> kritchie@mail1.cis.umn.edu (Kent C Ritchie) writes:
.>>About the memory slots... who knows?  I was wondering though... how much 
.>>juice does that 2Mb card suck?  I was thinking of getting one, but with a 
.>>modem I thought it might shorten my run time under 2 hrs.
.>
.>	I once measured the total drain of a T1000SE with 2Mb installed and


	that was what measured too..

.>it came to 8ma. The battery is rated at 1700ma-hr,  which comes to 8.9 days.
.>That matches well with my experience that it lasts about 8-9 days. Without
.>the 2Mb card, the battery lasts about 2 weeks.
.>	So, as far as shortening the 2 hour running time, the 2Mb has virtually
.>zero impact. The modem draw 50ma idling and 150ma when on-line. The total draw
.>of the machine varies from 400ma to over 1A (when floppy is on), so the extra

	yes it is from .4A to over 1A, but the low end depends on what level 
  your brightness is on.  also, if you call up the toshiba BBS.. you can get
  a screen saver that shuts off you lcd totally... or just the backlight..
  instantly, or after a certian time... with the backlight off (like when you
  are in broad daylight - theres no difference) you have a .26A draw w/o the
  disk drive.  and with the lcd totally shut off it read about .25A.
	these readings reflect with a 2meg card installed...

.>3ma that the 2Mb draws is nothing.
.>	Personally, since the 2Mb cards for the T1000SE are so cheap these
.>days ($150 or less) I can't imagine using the T1000SE without one. It is so
.>much more of a machine with it, can run Windows, Word, etc all without floppy
.>access.

	yeah, i wonder if one can get an 8 meg card for it...	
	also, windows 3.1 does not run on the tosh... :)
chow
-- 
David Chow  =)    I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and,
                  I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Time flies like an arrow...				- Tolkien
Fruit flies like bananas...       Internet: gt9351c@prism.gatech.edu
From: ballard@ferrari.network.com (Dave Ballard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: ZEOS 386SX-20 BIOS
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:35:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Network Systems Corporation
Originator: ballard@ferrari

Do's anyone out there have a bin file for the bios
used in the ZEOS 386sx-20 notbooks ?
I have a notebook that has the BIOS blown in it
and ZEOS can't give me a part number so I can 
order it from them ( they want the repair charge too )
I have also tryed to order it from a second source
 with no luck.




                                         thanks
From: calvin@lysator.liu.se (Chris Maluszynski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Z88 to Mac file trasfer.  HOW???!!!??
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:43:30 GMT
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden

I got an old Cambridge computers Z88 from a friend.
Now, I'd like to trasfer some files from it to the mac.
Does anyone know how to do it?
I've succeeded in trasfering something from the mac to the Z by using MacKermit
on the mac side and the terminal (or was it the import-export ?) program that's
built in on the Z. But I haven't succeeded in doing it the other way around.
I don't have any extra cartridge for mac-Z88 communication , which I once heard
something about, but I do have an old program for tha mac that looks almost 
like the font/da mover and is supposed to trasfer files between the two.

Since I am stuck at this point, it would really make my day if someone had
something to recommend on this subject...

thanx,

	-Chris

reply by email please
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben)
Subject: Re: Trouble with Toshiba T1000SE - Can only help?
Reply-To: ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:53:49 GMT


In a previous article, ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben) says:

Again thanks for the email suggestions to deal with this problem.

Yesterday, after the laptop charged for a while, we tested the 
battery again with a volt meter and it tested more than the 7.2 voluts
that it was supposed to be.

But when we tried to use the laptop without it being plugged in -
on battery power it went off and lost its charge.

We have had it charging again today and the light is now green and I will
try it again today.

-- 
Ronda Hauben                    email address:ae547@yfn.ysu.edu
Amateur Computerist Newsletter              or
P.O. Box 4344                   rhauben@heartland.bradley.edu
Dearborn, MI 48126
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: blk@mitre.org (Brian L. Kahn)
Subject: Re: laptop UNIX
Organization: The MITRE Corp. Bedford, MA
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:10:34 GMT

In article <HELLERS.92Sep1114736@cleo.wisc.edu> hellers@wisc.edu (Joe Hellerstein) writes:

   Any recommendations for a laptop with the power to run some version of
   UNIX/X-windows with reasonable speed?  I'm looking in the 2500
   range...

If you are a bit of a hacker, or just plain bold, check out the
comp.os.linux newsgroup.  There have been a few postings recently
about the low end of laptops that will run the linux system, which is
available via ftp.  Two low end machines, at $1000 and $1100, have
recently been cited, but linux with Xwindows apparently requires a
50MB hard disk, a math coprocessor, and 8MB memory.  $2500 seems more
than enough.

--
B<   Brian Kahn   blk@security.mitre.org   "may the farce be with you"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Toshiba 3300SL power conservation
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:19:47 GMT


I just bought my Toshiba 3300SL.  I'll post a review after I've had it
for more than 24 hours.  :)

Q: Has anyone attempted to use the power conservation features
(automatic CPU speed reduction, etc.) w/ something other than Toshiba
MS-DOS 5.0?  I'm waiting for a 6meg RAM expansion and then I'm going
to load OS/2 2.0 but my curiousity can't wait.  I'm also interested in
similar info on Windows 3.1, virgin MS-DOS, etc.  The Toshiba
documentaion leads one to believe that there's something special about
Toshiba MS-DOS;  I'm hoping that at least some of the power
conservation features work under other environments, too.


-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: sknapp@iastate.edu (Steven M. Knapp)
Subject: Re: HELP ME WITH MY NI-CAD BATTERY PLEASE!!!!!!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:19:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.001254.11478@lucid.com> jaz@lucid.com (Jim Zaun) writes:
>> Is this the memory effect that ni-cads have?
>
>No.
>
>> Is there a way to bring the ni-cad battery back to full capacity.
>
>Unlikely.  A complete discharge of the series-connected cells most likely
>reversed the polarity of some of the cells.  Bad news for NiCads, though
>I never understood why reverse-polarization kills NiCad cells.
>-- 

For info on NiCads I would STRONGLY recomend reading an article which was
published in a perdiocal called "QST" I do not know the date, but it was in
the last year (92). A trip to the library is all it should take, as it is a
popular ham radio magizene. It was writtten by a person who works on the
battery systems on satalites. Knowlageable guy, seperates the fact from
myth. 

________________________________________________________________________ 
Steven M. Knapp		                    Computer Engineering Student
sknapp@iastate.edu	            President Cyclone Amateur Radio Club
KA9QOA@N0AN.IA		                 Iowa State University; Ames, IA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: N51L5201@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu (David Auerbach)
Subject: Re: UltraVision--Comments?  Clone?
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:49:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.035356.29908@engage.pko.dec.com>
gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys) writes:
 
>
>In article <1992Sep3.140850.19082@cis.ohio-state.edu>, grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III) writes...
>>In article <1992Sep3.123109.25606@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>>>
>>>Get it. You won't be sorry. It should be bundled in with EVERY LAPTOP.
>>>Be sure you get LAPTOP Ultravision, and not the standard issue.
>>
>>Have you run into any software incompatibilities?  Any idea exactly
>>what it's doing to accomplish its magic?  > >--
>>
>>
>>--Golden
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
>>grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
>
>
>
>	No magic involved. It's just intercepting the normal data to the screen
>(the text and color stuff) and converting it into true graphics and then
>doing a normal type graphics display.
>
>
>	/s/	Bob Gettys
 
No it isn't.  Read the manual.
From: adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Portable pointing devices
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:39:03 GMT
Reply-To: adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Royal Holloway & Bedford New College Uni London

In article <1992Aug27.103003.26725@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias) writes:
 
|> That's very interesting, though I don't understand why you would want to do this.
|> A mouse is a better all-around input device than a trackball.  Why would you want
|> to replace it with something that's worse?

Well, simply because a mouse is not a better all round pointing device. Just because
you are used to using a mouse doesn't mean its the best. As a sideways example,
I've always found motorbike controls more sensible than car controls, because on a bike 
the delicate clutch action is performed with the hand rather than the foot, whereas
the non-critical gear change is performed with the feet. In general people's hand-eye
coordination is better developed than their foot-eye coordination, unless  perhaps
thay play large pedal organs :-). (US readers who've never seen a stick shift can
ignore this rather whimsical example).

Anyway, conventional trackerballs are indeed rather unergonmic, but imagine a device
that fitted snugly into your hand so that your fingers fitted naturally onto the controls
and where the mouse position was linked to the position of your thumb, giving accurate 
control of the mouse pointer without having to keep part of your desk clear. As a bonus, 
the trackman is always in the same place on your desk so you don't need to look away to
find the damn thing. I'm not the first person to suggest that Logitech provide brackets
for conventional keyboards, so someone out there must agree with me.

Actually of course neither mice nor nicely sculpted trackerballs are ideal. I've always
rather fancied one of those gizmos that psychologists use to track eyeball movement
coupled with a footswitch, so that I can look at a point on the screen and `click' without
moving my hands from the keyboard. Anybody got any better ideas? Maybe you should patent 
them before parading them in front of the rest of us...
|> 
|> Edgar
|> 
                        Adrian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: maxwell@fnala.fnal.gov
Subject: My New toy- Dell NX20. Advice?
Organization: What does *this* button do!?
Summary: What would *you* put on it?
Keywords: notebook,386,fun,Dell NX20
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:46:53 GMT
X-Posted-From: fnala.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I just got the coolest toy I've ever had in my whole life!

It's a Dell NX20 notebook.

The specs are (as currently configured)
386sx 20Mhz
2Mram 40Mhd
2.4kb modem/9.6kfax (internal, arriving next week)
Logitech clipmouse. (really a small trackball)

Anyone got recommendations/faveraves wrt what I oughtta put on it?
I'm gonna use it as a portable office, a home/remote terminal and
net.accessor.

I'd like to turn it into a portable printing press in the not too distant
future, too.

This is the first non-Macintosh personal computer I've ever used...
(Vax I know, 386's I don't)


LLLLater.max
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 1992 20:39:02 EDT
From: David B. Jaffe <DJ8177A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject:       Trouble with Bondwell 310

Anyone purchase a Bondwell Laptop 310 from the DAK catalogue.  Bought mine
2 years ago.  Down arrow is automatically scrolling the entire document w/out
stopping; l/r arrows run on endlessly; numbers keys run into shift mode at will
. I'm wondering if anyone else has had/heard of this problem, or am I going to
have to sue Drew Kaplan all by myself?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: laptop UNIX
Distribution: comp
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:49:33 GMT

blk@mitre.org (Brian L. Kahn) writes:
>In article <HELLERS.92Sep1114736@cleo.wisc.edu> hellers@wisc.edu (Joe Hellerstein) writes:
>If you are a bit of a hacker, or just plain bold, check out the
>comp.os.linux newsgroup.  There have been a few postings recently
>about the low end of laptops that will run the linux system, which is
>available via ftp.  Two low end machines, at $1000 and $1100, have
>recently been cited, but linux with Xwindows apparently requires a
>50MB hard disk, a math coprocessor, and 8MB memory.

Linux with X and gcc 2.2.2d takes up only about 15M.  This is binaries
only, of course.  A friend installed Linux 0.97.1 with X on a 20M
partition and had about 5M left over, so in a bind a 20M HD will do,
but I'd suggest at least 40 for comfort, if you plan to do light
development on the laptop.  The reason it's so small is that Linux
now has shared libraries so the executables are MUCH smaller than
they were.

-- 
The primary goal of science is to describe whatever scientists see as being
in need of description.

Wayne Hayes     INTERNET: wayne@csri.utoronto.ca        CompuServe: 72401,3525
From: oleinick@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Lew Oleinick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: 16 Mhz 387 in a 20 Mhz 386 box...
Keywords: 80386 sx, 80387 sx, speed compatability
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:50:36 GMT
Reply-To: oleinick@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Lew Oleinick)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: oleinick@thumper.cc.utexas.edu

I've got a 20 Mhz 80386 SX Dell notebook.  I was able to pick up
a 16 Mhz 80387 SX coprocessor for $45.  I've got the chip in the
machine and the machine recognizes it.  The numeric coprocessor runs
hot enough that I can feel the heat emenating out of the notebooks
case.  When I opened the box the chip was hot, but didn't burn my
finger.  My question is this,  What are the long-term effects of
putting a slower coproc in a machine and how damaging is it to run
the system with a hot coproc?  Any help would be appreciated.
-- Lew
From: adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Portable pointing devices
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:14:46 GMT
Reply-To: adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Royal Holloway & Bedford New College Uni London

In article <1992Aug25.225853.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, baer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
 
|> In article <1992Aug25.120838.28667@cis.ohio-state.edu>, grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III) writes:
|> > 
|> > I'd like to conduct an informal survey to see what sorts of portable 
|> > pointing devices notebook owners are using.    I'll summarize responses 
|> > sent to me in email or we can just fire the discussion up here.
|> > 
|> > I looked at the new Logitech Trackman (not the portable) and it seems
|> > really slick.  While it doesn't pretend to be a portable device, it
|> > seems like it would serve as long as you had some desk space.  I
|> > haven't played with the portable version yet nor with the Microsoft
|> > portable (which seems incredibly expensive).
| 

I own a portable trackman, and Iwould cheerfully replace my workstation mouse with
it standing on its end. Actually I have occasionally suffered from the sticking
too, but the ergonmoics are superb (except that every so often Iforget and start
moving the thing around, wondering why the pointer doesn't go too :-) )

                   Adrian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: steve@europa.esd.sgi.com (Motorin' Flarey Henderson)
Subject: Re: Do-it-yourself HD changes?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 17:02:31 GMT

In <1992Aug27.133009.12997@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> hendrick@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Heath S Hendrickson) writes:


>I know that it is possible to do, but what are the pros and cons of doing it
>by yourself? (outside of warranty invalidation and cost savings)  Are there
>any companies that do HD upgrades that don't void the warranty?  What are the
>costs?

>Related question: I have an AST Premium Exec w/ 60M HD, I would like to put
>a 120M into it (Windows progs 8-( ).  What types of HD's fit it?  I currently
>have it "STAC"ed, but will soon run out of space anyway. 8-(.

It shouldn't be too hard to upgrade the hard disk in most notebooks.  Most
notebooks use the 2.5" HD, which aren't the easiest to find for sale.  The
biggest obstacle is to get your BIOS to recognize it.  I have a Compudyne
486DX-33 notebook, and it's BIOS is set up to recognize many 2.5" disks, 
up to the 180M Areal disk.  I would have to look up all the parameters of
the new disk in a table under DOS, and then change the parameters in the
setup program in the prom.  These parameters include number of heads, tracks,
sectors, etc...  I'm not sure how other notebooks do it.  Look thru your
setup program and see if it has alterable hard disk parameters.  I can send
anyone a list of parameters for various 2.5" hard drives. 

While I'm confident that I can upgrade my hard disk in my machine (I'm a
hardware geek), I wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't good at hardware
hacking!


--
steve valin		steve@sgi.com
		   "SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN"		- peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Portable sound
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:44:22 GMT


Anyone know if parallel port versions of something like the
Soundblaster card exist?  I did see one device advertises recently
that allowed digitized speech capability, etc. which connected to the
parallel port [the name escapes me at the moment] but Soundblaster
compatibility was provided only via a TSR.

The screams from Castle Wolfenstein are just not convincing on a 0.5" speaker
and I miss Soundblaster capability.   :)



-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: nwbernstein@amherst.edu
Subject: Feedback requested on Toshiba T4400SX b/w laptop
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst Mass.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:17:09 GMT

I'm looking for a good-quality laptop, to use mostly for word-processing and
modeming.  Looking through PC Magazine and various dealers, I settled on the
Toshiba T4400SX.  I would really appreciate hearing its praises and its 
drawbacks before I commit.  Thanks!
								- Neil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Re: PCMCIA slot in Toshiba 3300SL
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:26:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.043226.9478@cis.ohio-state.edu> grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.002716.17247@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>>In article <wHJiqB2w164w@cellar.org> stencil@cellar.org (Stencil) writes:
>>>grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III) writes:
>>>
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know of any non-modem devices for the Toshiba PCMCIA slot? 
>>>
>>>
>>>I am curious also.  Is there any third-party support for this interface yet?
>>
>>I got a less-than-useful reply on Toshiba's forum on CompuServe.
>>I asked if the memory and modem slots were any different. They told me
>>a PCMCIA slot is a PCMCIA slot is a PCMCIA slot. So I asked, can I plug
>>a second RAM card into the modem slot? NO clear answer ... something about
>>firmware support ... and I stopped pursuing this avenue.
>>
>
>It's almost torture for someone to beat around the bush like that (w/
>regards to the PCMCIA modem slot supporting RAM or such).  Imagine a
>2mb+16mb+16mb 3300SL. 
>
>"Hey, how much memory you got in that little guy, mister?"
>"Oh, 34 meg".   :)             
>
>Not on my salary.   The only 16meg card I've seen is VERY expensive.  <<drool>>

News flash: from the newest price list on the Toshiba BBS, the 16 meg
card is a mere $3599!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Ouch.  At that price the computer
is an accessory for the RAM card.  When I made the joke above, my idea
of expensive was the $1500+ prices I had seen in Computer Shopper.



-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA