HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sroth@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Steve Roth)
Subject: Re: CPACK and OS/2
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:12:47 GMT

In article <714720783snx@sgmlinc.com> brian@sgmlinc.com (Brian E. Travis) writes:
>Has anyone had any luck loading and using the connectivity pack 
>(specifically, DC95) under a DOS session or image in OS/2 2.0?

Yes, I do this frequently. I find it necessary to tell dc95 to use a lower
baud rate than its default of 110kbaud in order to get it to work--I usually
use 38400baud.

There is no such thing as a PIM environment variable. There is an environment
variable called PIMS, used by APP95, but this is not used by DC95.

Good luck!

Steve Roth
Integrated Systems Division
Hewlett-Packard Company
steve@hpams0c.ptp.hp.com
From: laub@Software.Mitel.COM (Boniface Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Sharp PC-3000 and LANs
Date: 30 Aug 92 03:51:38 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
In-reply-to: coexbgw@state.systems.sa.gov.au's message of 28 Aug 92 05:48:26 GMT

>>>>> On 28 Aug 92 05:48:26 GMT, coexbgw@state.systems.sa.gov.au said:

coexbgw> Can someone help me with a problem which I am having in
coexbgw> attaching a Sharp PC-3000 to our LAN.  The PC-3000 does not
coexbgw> appear to register that the pocket adaptor is in place.  The
coexbgw> system is an Ethernet system, and the software used is Novell
coexbgw> IPX/SPX v 3.01 and Netware v3.02 workstation shell.  The
coexbgw> adaptor is a Longshine parallel port unit.  It all works well
coexbgw> with a Sharp PC-6200, but not at all with the 3000.  This is
coexbgw> causing me much distress!

Did you try disabling the low power mode? You can do so by issuing
"setup/l-" at the DOS prompt.
--
Boniface Lau    (613) 592-2122 ext. 3042    Boniface_Lau@Mitel.COM
Mitel Corp.  				    
350 Legget Drive, Kanata
Ontario, Canada, K2K 1X3
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: dale@mkseast.uucp (Dale Gass)
Subject: PC-3000: clock speeds and battery life
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 02:29:06 GMT

I'm a little curious as to the actual effect that the clock speed has on
battery life on the PC-3000.

I presume that when the machine is idle (low-power mode on, and no keyboard
or processing activity) it is irrelevant what the clock speed is; the machine
is in some special idle state.

When there's keyboard activity or processing going on, a higher clock speed
will certainly chew up more battery life, but it will also get the work
done proportionately faster.  Now, I assume that there's some fixed cost
for *any* CPU activity (for auxilliary chips, etc.), regardless of the speed.
If this is true, then unless twice the processing speed burns up a fair bit 
more than twice the battery life, it shouldn't really matter what speed you
use; in fact, the faster speeds could be better, since you'd have the CPU
out of idle mode for a much smaller amount of time.

I haven't seen any significant battery difference between 5Mhz and 10Mhz 
operation, although it's hard to measure when your activities vary (sometimes
use the serial port, sometimes don't).

Anyhow, I've found the AC adaptor for a bit better price ($55 Cdn.), so I've
ordered one.  That should take some of the pain out of serial port usage.

-dale
-- 
 Dale Gass, Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch
Business: dale@east.mks.com, Pleasure: dale@mkseast.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: gea@IASTATE.EDU (George E. Applequist)
Subject: Re: List of Holidays
Reply-To: gea@IASTATE.EDU (George E. Applequist)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:32:20 GMT

Is my calendar wrong, or are these dates (and maybe others) off?

09/04	Labor Day (1st Monday of September)
09/09	Grandparent's Day (2nd Sunday of September; varies from state to state)
10/09	Columbus Day (2nd Monday of October)
11/06	Election Day (1st Tuesday after 1st Monday for even years)

   September 1992
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
       1  2  3  4  5
 6  7  8  9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30

   October 1992
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
             1  2  3
 4  5  6  7  8  9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31

   November 1992
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30

   ___    ____             George Einar Applequist  (gea@iastate.edu)
  /   \  /       /\        Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
 /    __/_______/__\____   Iowa State University
 \    \ \      /    \  /   Ames, Iowa, USA
  \___/  \____/      \/    
From: eugene@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Gene Dick)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:31:12 GMT
Subject: Re: List of Holidays
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops

Looks like you switch calendars mid-stream,  the following
dates are correct for the year 1995 (or 2001 as noted):

>    05/14/95	Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May)
>    05/20/95	Armed Forces Day (3rd Saturday of May)
>    05/29/95	Memorial Day (Last Monday of May)
>    06/18/95	Father's Day (3rd Sunday of June)
>    09/04/95	Labor Day (1st Monday of September)

Then we skip to 2001

>    09/09/01	Grandparent's Day (2nd Sunday of September; varies from state to state)

Then back to 1995

>    10/09/95	Columbus Day (2nd Monday of October)
>    10/29/95	Daylight Savings Time ends; clocks move back (Last Sunday in October)

Then back to 2001

>    11/06/01	Election Day (1st Tuesday after 1st Monday for even years)
>    11/29/01	Thanksgiving Day (Last Thursday in November)

Just so you have the right dates:

    05/09/93	Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May)
    05/15/93	Armed Forces Day (3rd Saturday of May)
    05/31/93	Memorial Day (Last Monday of May)
    06/20/93	Father's Day (3rd Sunday of June)
    09/06/93	Labor Day (1st Monday of September)
    09/12/93	Grandparent's Day (2nd Sunday of September; varies from state to state)
    10/11/93	Columbus Day (2nd Monday of October)
    10/31/93	Daylight Savings Time ends; clocks move back (Last Sunday in October)
    11/02/93	Election Day (1st Tuesday after 1st Monday for even years)
    11/27/93	Thanksgiving Day (Last Thursday in November)


Gene Dick
Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Subject: Re: What is a Poquet? I keep hearing the name Poquet, but it doesn't really mean anything to me.  I assume it's a computer made by some big-name company that is MS-DOS compatible, but beyond that, I have no clue.
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:34:35 GMT

In article <4224@3cpu.rain.com> reaper@3cpu.rain.com (Ian Johnston) writes:
>
>  Does it include a HD?  RS-232 port or similar interface?  Is it in fact 
>  directly MS-DOS compatible?  Built in modem?

The Poqet PC has been out since 1989 now.  It, like all palmtops on the
market, doesn't have a hard drive.  Instead, it has two PCMCIA standard
memory card "slots".  There's a port on the back into which either a
serial adapter or parallel adapter can be plugged into.  It is MS-DOS
compatible as much as any MS-DOS laptop on the market.  It doesn't have
a floppy drive built in (since it's about the size of a floppy drive),
but one is available that snaps onto the bottom of the machine.  MS-DOS
3.3 is built in, along with some limited PIM software and
communications software to do file transfers.  There isn't a built in
modem.  I've talked to New Media about their PCMCIA 1.0 modem and they
said it's unlikely they will make a Poqet PC version.  It's possible
some other company may make a modem for it.

I agree with another poster than it's unfortunate that the Hewlett-Packard
HP-95LX was considered the first MS-DOS palmtop.   Of course, the Poqet
PC isn't quite the first either, but it was the first MS-DOS machine
at a pound or less with narly a full sized qwerty keyboard.   Industrial
MS-DOS handheld computers have been around for some time, the DAP Microflex
PC1000 was released early 1988.  I think there were other even earlier
machines.

The Atari Portfolio was earlier than either the Poqet or HP, but it
doesn't run MS-DOS (a clone instead), has very limited RAM (128KB)
making it difficult to run larger applications, has nonstandard
graphics and text (like the HP), and has other incompatibilities.  In a
few of these ways it resembles the HP more than the Poqet.  It's about
midway in size between the two machines, and has a keyboard that can
almost be touch typed on (by me anyway).  In the end, the Atari has
been almost forgotten like the Poqet.

Atari's lead in the industry has been gone for years, and Poqet's (now
owned by Fujitsu) is almost gone as well.  That's the breaks.

Right now I've got an HP-95LX, it's the most powerful machine I can fit
in my pocket.

See csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtops for more information on various
machines.
--
<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
From: desouza@math.berkeley.edu (Paulo de Souza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Sharp's OZ-8000 Wizard at Service Merchandise for $229
Date: 28 Aug 1992 07:28:49 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
NNTP-Posting-Host: math.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug27.141041.10977@tamsun.tamu.edu> dkf8117@tamsun.tamu.edu (D. K. Fields) writes:

   >I just bought th 64k OZ-8000 at the local Service Merchandise for $229  It
   >was not on sale, apparently this is their regular price.  I of course
   >don't know if other Service Merchandise's carry it at that low price.
   >
   >Duane Fields                  Friends don't      Work#   (409) 845-6904
   >Box 1315                     let friends use     Home#   (409) 847-6760
   >College Station, Tx 77841        MS-DOS.         dkf8117@tamsun.tamu.edu

Next time be smarter then... Executive in New York sell the IQ8000 for
just $ 199 and with NO sales tax ...

Paulo Ney                                      desouza@math.berkeley.edu
From: dsr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Dick Rhoads)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:03:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Q-Blazer and HP95LX (help needed)
Organization: the HP Response Center, Atlanta
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops


The QBlazer worked fine for me with the following cables:

Blazer cable     din to 9pin-f
Blazer adaptor   9pin-m to 25pin-f
HP adaptor       25pin-m to 9pin-m     part number 82224A (or 82224-80003)
HP cable         9pin-f to 4pin-f      standard connectivity pack cable

The 82224A crosses pins 2 and 3.

Good luck!

-- Dick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Subject: Re: Questions on PCMCIA Cards
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:23:37 GMT

In article <3643@key.COM> rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
>
>1) What is the current maximum PCMCIA card size for delivering software
>   in read-only form?

There are only 22 address lines, but somehow (multiplexing I suppose)
Intel and SunDisk sell Flash EPROM cards with up to 20MB.  I don't know
the current largest ROM size, did you want mask or OTP?

>2) How does one go about shipping a product on PCMCIA cards? What kinds
>   of costs and quantity discounts are available?

Well, you could put your software on SRAM (high cost), Flash EPROM (not
so high cost), OTP ROM (maybe lower?), or mask ROM (low cost, quantity
100-1000s).  I know Databook sells at least the first three, and perhaps
mask ROM too.  Databook	716-889-4204.

Note that putting your software on ROM card exclusively will make it
more difficult for users to use other cards, especially on single slot
machines like the HP.  I personaly might never buy software on ROM
if it was too expensive due to the card cost.

>3) How are the costs/available sizes likely to change over the next year?

SRAM costs are dropping a lot.  A 2MB SRAM card started out at $1400
about a year ago, now some sources sell them for less than $250.  My
guess is that they might stabilize around twice the price of DRAM SIMM
devices (which are constantly dropping as well).

I haven't kept up on other technologies as much.
--
<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
From: bhendrix@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Brian Hendrix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Chording, again, sorry ...
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:43:10 GMT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

pgf@cayman.COM (Paul Fox) writes:

- jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- : jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk (Jonathan Allen) writes:
- : 
- : 
- : >What ??  After all the flack you are seriously asking someone to
- : >break copyright and lay themselves open to prosecution ?
- : 
- ........
- : Do you have a clue as to how much damage your idiocy in this group is
- : doing to your client?  Does your client?  
- : 
- : I wonder how many other non-customers-for-life you've created?
- me!  me!!  I'm one!!!  I'm a non-customer-for-life too!!!!
 
I hate to say it, but I'm a non-customer for life too.  Any company that 
wants to get that sticky about their copyright, to the point that one 
can't even examine the damn thing, will never get my money.
 
Awfully strange way to get customer support.

Brian Hendrix  bhendrix@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  "Il faut etre de son temps"
Dod #754             '76 CB750-Four          
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: toms@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Thomas Spohrer)
Subject: Sun Openwin v3 CM to 95LX appt translator
Organization: Motorola Inc.  Austin, Tx.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:03:15 GMT

Does anyone know of a translator that will take appointments that are
in Sun Openwin Calender Manager format and convert them to 95LX
appointment book format?

I have seen the work by Todd Bernhard but as far as I know his software
only converts in the opposite direction (95LX to Sun).

Thanks for any pointers either commercial or shareware.

-- 

===========================================================================
Thomas Spohrer    UUCP: {harvard,utah-cs,gatech}!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!toms
===========================================================================
From: santa@hit.cc.hit-u.ac.jp (Ogawa Hiroshi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Reassigning HP95LX's application keys...
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:47:25 GMT
Reply-To: santa@hitcc.cc.hit-u.ac.jp (Ogawa Hiroshi)
Organization: Hitotsubashi Univ.,Japan

This device driver will swap FILER key <-> SHIFT+FILER key.  
To install, you only add
DEVICE=KBD95LX.SYS
line to your config.sys.  There's no options.

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size 390
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: Reassigning HP95LX's application keys...
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:52:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.201752.735@unixg.ubc.ca> george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes:
>Howdy,
>  Is it possible to rearrange the mapping between the application key and
>the built-in applications? Since I seldom ever use the Filer but rather
>check on my Setup, I want to flip the mapping so that the Filer key starts
>up Setup and the shifted-Filer key starts the Filer. Is this possible? 
>I know about the APNAME.LST file but how do I reference the built-in
>applications?

Should be pretty easy in theory. Snag the keyboard servicing interrupt and
check for the key combination you want, do what you have to then branch back
 into the polling routine at the appropriate point(Isn't this 21H or something?)

Alternatively, diddle with the jump table that contains the vectors for
processing those keycodes and point them towards your code. Again, make
SURE you jump back to the right point when you're done..

 There is a list of keycodes on 
eddie I believe. Also, the MEMUTIL and APLISTER programs on eddie have
95 keycode tables built into them as well as a function that will give you
the hex value returned by a particular keypress.

Somebody who's better with Intel or Intel-like chip sets could probably 
give you a better idea of whats involved, but thats the conceptual
approach I'd take.

---Steve 
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"You see, I'm kind of this control freak who likes to create his own
personal hells before the real one can get to him. I like to beat hell
to hell so to speak".--Spalding Gray "Monster in a box"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Carl Dichter)
Subject: Re: List of Holidays
Originator: root@mogate.sps.mot.com
Organization: SPS
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:09:59 GMT

The personal assistant calender software on the MCC (Memorex) allows you
to repeat holdays by date or by day, so these holidays that
are on the second sunday (or whatever) usually work out.

An exception would be stuff like election days- "the first
Tuesday after the second Monday, in even numbered years".

----------------------
Carl R. Dichter 			"iwannanugui"
Motorola ASIC Division
email: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Subject: Re: recommendation requested
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:02:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.215628.19201@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> ami@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ami Motro) writes:

>Incidentally, this group could use a volunteer who would maintain a
>comparative table of available palmtops, and post an updated version regularly
>(similar to the idea of FAQ).

This is such a great idea that I've already started on it :-).

			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  ???	1.0	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  $500   
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  ???  ???
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.

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	510-631-0513
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		??????
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.
--
<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
From: sandy47@cats.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Q-Blazer and HP95LX (help needed)
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:10:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


I just took my new Q-Blazer out of the box and can't seem to get it to 
work with my HP95LX.  I recall having seen someone who had posted a
success story, so would appreciate any help I can get.

After connecting a string of adaptors much longer than the modem and
95 put together, I get no response to an "AT" at 19,200 baud.  (I am
using 95buddy and so I can see that my serial port is on).

I assume that it is me, cause I just substituted it in place of my 
WorldBlazer at 9600 baud connected to an Atari 1040Ste emulating a
Mac and it works beautifully as I create this article.  (No changes
from the default setting  required.)

Thanks $299 worth in advance!


					Larry

mack@mchome.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Carl Dichter)
Subject: Update on Memorex Commuter Computer and TPS Elect.
Originator: root@mogate.sps.mot.com
Organization: SPS
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:55:09 GMT


On Monday morning I took out my new MCC (Memorex Commuter Computer)
to show it off at work. This was just an hour or so after
I posted a message about it.

I was surprised to find that the display was cracked:
books in my briefcase had put pressure on the spare batteries 
that I had put inside the MCC carry case. I think that
the MCC is well-made, but they should warn people not 
to put anything except PCMCIA cards in the pockets of
the carry case.

I called TPS Electronics and told them what happened, and
they immediately sent a replacement (didn't even
wait for my unit to get there). I got it Tuesday.
Although they told me to send in only the unit itself,
they sent me back a complete unit (cables, AC adapter, manuals,
case, batteries).

I called them and they said to keep the extra accessories--
which is great because I can keep power and serial cables setup
at home and at work.

So I learned to avoid putting pressure on the center of the cover of 
an MCC (or about any palmtop/laptop with a large LCD screen-- smaller ones
are probably safe), and I'm quite happy with TPS, and still have faith in
Memorex (the new unit is great).

----------------------
Carl R. Dichter 			"iwannanugui"
Motorola ASIC Division
email: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.handhelds