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From: boosman@adobe.com (Frank Boosman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: FOR SALE -- Sharp Wizard OZ-8200
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:56:41 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
Distribution: usa
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated

FOR SALE

Sharp Wizard
Model OZ-8200
128 Kb RAM

From the product packaging:

"Large, 40-character by 8-line display... Spacious, sculptured
typewriter-style keyboard... 9 major functions in one: calendar,
schedule, phone/address, business card, memo, outline processor,
clock, world clock, and calculator... Stores approximately 2,500
names and numbers or apprximately 1,820 schedule appointments...
Applications and memory expandable with optional IC cards...
Optional PC interface software/hardware for bidirectional
communications with your PC... Built-in help screens available
for major functions at the touch of a button."

In like-new condition; barely used; acquired early 1992. Comes
with registration card. In original packaging with manuals.

The best price I could find on this locally (San Francisco Bay
Area) was $299. I will sell it for the best offer above $175, or
the first offer above $225. Send me e-mail at the address below
or call me at 415 / 962-4946.

-- Frank Boosman
   Adobe Systems Incorporated
   boosman@adobe.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams)
Subject: Re: Hidden "licenses" for software
Followup-To: comp.software.licensing
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:47:49 GMT

Please, please, take this elsewhere.  Software licensing is a
controversial topic that can easily blow up into a big, noisy
discussion that drowns out everything else.  Please respect the net
and its users, and post appropriately.

Thanks,
Jim



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From: jeff@eng.umd.edu (Jeffrey Frey)
Subject: Sharp 3100s?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 16:04:53 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

A couple of people have mentioned the pre-Christmas availability of Sharp
3100's (in Canada) at a quite low price.  Does anyone have the name of the
sources of these machines?  Perhaps a few might be found lurking on shelves...

Jeff

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe)
Subject: Re: Dealers in 95LX accessories/software
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:20:11 GMT

gea@IASTATE.EDU (George E. Applequist) writes:

>Are there any good dealers in accessories and software for the HP 95LX
>other than EduCalc?  I called for EduCalc's catalog more than a week
>ago and I have seen no sign of it yet;  they don't seem too anxious
>for my business.

Try Sparcom in Corvalis Oregon or ACE Technologies in San Jose Cal.
Both sell various hardware and software. Also, there is a publication
called the 'Palmtop Paper' published there in Iowa somewhere. If you
can't find the numbers/addresses, let me know and I'll dig them up
for you...

Miles
From: lindgren@ae.chalmers.se (ULF A LINDGREN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Repeating appointments(on a OZ-8000?)
Date: 7 Jan 93 08:39:57 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Applied Electronics. Chalmers Univ. of Technology.

In article <18339@bcars664.bnr.ca>, seggie@bcarh17f.BNR.CA (Alex Seggie) writes:
> Is there any way to set up weekly or monthly repeating appointments
> in a Sharp ZQ-5300M?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alex
> 
> In article <C027zI.EJp@news.iastate.edu>, sknapp@iastate.edu (Steven M.
> Knapp) writes:
> |>In article <8215@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay
> Maynard) writes:
> |>>In article <1992Dec27.160918.4776@linus.mitre.org>
> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
> |>>[about monthly repeating appointments]
> |>>>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
> |>
> |>Is there any way to do this on a Sharp Wizard 8000?
> |>Thanks for the info!
> |>________________________________________________________________________ 
> |>Steven M. Knapp                             Computer Engineering Student
> |>sknapp@iastate.edu                  President Cyclone Amateur Radio Club
> |>Iowa State University; Ames, IA; USA      Durham Center Operations Staff
>

Hello

I have seen this question for some time now and I think it's time to clear
things up. The statement in article 1192Dec27.160918.4776@linus.mitre.org
was concerning HP95 and not Sharp, as far as I can remember.
There is no built in feature like this in any Sharp below the 9xxx, which is
said to fix this type of appointments.
It is quite possible to write a machine code routine for this in the 8xxx.
To invoke that user written routine I suggest that the keyboard interrupt is
used. I guess that the easy way to do this is like the 9xxx does it, adding
one entry for every appointment wanted.
I have not written a routine like this but I have used the 8xxx quite a lot so
I know it is possible to do.

Ulf Lindgren
Chalmers university of Technology
Department of Applied Electronics
Gothenburg, Sweden
E-Mail : Lindgren.@ae.chalmers.se
From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: HP95 bugs -- open letter to HP
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:27:36 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: peregrine

Yikes, I forgot the two truly horrendous bugs.

Random file system corruption caused by cold boot (CTRL-SHIFT-ON)
  This is documented elsewhere (FAQ?) Apparently at cold boot time,
  four random bytes are written into memory.  If they overwrite the
  ramdisk multiple files are randomly corrupted (you get I/O ERROR
  when you try to view them with the viewer).  This requires reformating
  of the disk and restoring everything from backup.

Random spontaneous disappearances of files.
  This seems to happen while running the kermit server.  Once, I entered
  the server, did nothing, and exited, and found 95buddy.sys had vanished.
  I live in terror of the day when something required to boot the system
  disappears.


These bugs are truly horrible, and I hope that HP is working on a fix and
will allow us to install it on our current machines.

Oh, one more wish-list item: repeating TODO items.  Like "take out the trash".
or "send the rent check".


		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags 
-- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal (Mark Twain).
From: steve@thorin.geosys.co.uk (Steve Hawtin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Psion 3S w/o a PC
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:13:18 GMT
Reply-To: steve@geosys.co.uk
Organization: Oilfield Systems Ltd.

In article <1992Dec28.164226.26714@alw.nih.gov>, weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
|> Now I'm dreaming (maybe more seriously) about buying
|> a Psion Series 3S and am wondering if anyone has one, but doesn't have a
|> PC.  Is there anyway to transfer data (spreadsheet, database) to/from
|> something other than a PC or Mac (oh, I don't know, maybe something
|> like, uh... a SPARCstation :-).

I have a Psion 3 and normally use a SPARCstation in the office
and an Amiga at home.  At home I have a comms package that
supports Y-modem and on the SPARCstation I have support for
X-modem.  I do all my data transfer using the Psion Serial Link. 

When transfering single files there are few problems, sometimes
the Amiga Y-modem does not like some Psion files but that is
rare.  I normally transfer data to the SPARCstation as strait
ASCII files, just because it is so easy.

My main comment would be that not having a PC or Mac makes it
difficult to backup the Psion, because you do not know all the
file names in advance.  When I need to make a backup I tend to
borrow a PC to do it. 

By the way you will need a sex converter to plug the serial link
into your Sun. 

-- 

Steve Hawtin			EMAIL    : steve@geosys.co.uk
Oilfield Systems Ltd.,		BANGNET  : ...!uunet!mcsun!uknet!geosys!steve
Worthy Park House,		PHONE    : +44 962 882448
Abbots Worthy, Winchester,	FAX      : +44 962 885085
Hants. SO21 1AN, UK.


-- 

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Oilfield Systems Ltd.,		BANGNET  : ...!uunet!mcsun!uknet!geosys!steve
Worthy Park House,		PHONE    : +44 962 882448
Abbots Worthy, Winchester,	FAX      : +44 962 885085
Hants. SO21 1AN, UK.
From: gsd@castle.ed.ac.uk (G.S.Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Psion 3 PD Software.
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:40:20 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University


Hi there,


I am the proud owner of a series three Psion machine, and was
wondering whether or not there is any public domain/shareware software
available for the little beast.

Post them or email, if there is such a site.

Cheers 


Guy
From: terry@col.hp.com (Terry Thero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: 95LX <-> Mac ???
Date: 12 Jan 1993 18:33:04 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpcspd.col.hp.com

Hi Rod,

   The only thing I have seen is a listing in 'EduCalc' catalog
   (# 57 page 17) for a 'DataExchange Macintosh connectivity
   pack. It says you can transfer and convert phone, appointment 
   and memo files. It is System 7 compliant, etc. The product is
   from 'Sparcomm'. If you have a question, call EduCalc at:

	       1-800-677-7001  8 to 5 Mon thru Fri
		 (per the catalog )
    Hope this helps.
						CU
						twthero
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From: lindgren@ae.chalmers.se (ULF A LINDGREN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Repeating appointments (on a OZ-8000?)
Date: 7 Jan 93 08:11:32 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Applied Electronics. Chalmers Univ. of Technology.

In article <18339@bcars664.bnr.ca>, seggie@bcarh17f.BNR.CA (Alex Seggie) writes:
> Is there any way to set up weekly or monthly repeating appointments
> in a Sharp ZQ-5300M?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alex
> 
> In article <C027zI.EJp@news.iastate.edu>, sknapp@iastate.edu (Steven M.
> Knapp) writes:
> |>In article <8215@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay
> Maynard) writes:
> |>>In article <1992Dec27.160918.4776@linus.mitre.org>
> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
> |>>[about monthly repeating appointments]
> |>>>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
> |>
> |>Is there any way to do this on a Sharp Wizard 8000?
> |>Thanks for the info!
> |>________________________________________________________________________ 
> |>Steven M. Knapp                             Computer Engineering Student
> |>sknapp@iastate.edu                  President Cyclone Amateur Radio Club
> |>Iowa State University; Ames, IA; USA      Durham Center Operations Staff
>             
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
Subject: Re: Hidden "licenses" for software
Reply-To: edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:31:53 GMT

In article <PHR.93Jan5183230@napa.telebit.com>, phr@telebit.com (Paul
Rubin) writes:

>Rather than all this legal sniping has anyone asked a simpler question:
>if the vendor didn't want you to sell the old card after getting
>the new one, why didn't they just ask you to return the old one
>in order to get the upgrade?

That's a good idea.  It allows them to sell the original product without
a license and also allows me to decide, when purchasing the upgrade, if
getting the new version but losing the old one is worth the price.


                                -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
                                "Always mount a scratch monkey."
                                edp@rusure.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM (Lem Fugitt - Nihon Sun US Office)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Brand New SHARP IQ9000 - infos wanted
Date: 7 Jan 1993 01:37:36 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: tempus.corp.sun.com

In article 22583@schbbs.mot.com, TMKT76@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Daniel Fusils) writes:
<=>Last week  in Paris  (France) i saw  a prototype of  the brand  new SHARP
<=>palmtop named IQ9000.

It's called the 9600 in the US and the 9000 in Canada (perhaps everywhere
outside the US).

<=>cards interface (is it PCMCIA?)...etc.  Is it a Newton before date?

No, unfortunately it's still the Sharp closed interface. - not PCMCIA. There
are rumors that the next generation will support PCMCIA, but nothing confirmed
from Sharp that I've seen. On the bright side most of the existing Sharp
applications cards work with the 9600.

<=>Has anybody seen it?

There were a few in the stores here and some lucky people here found one
under the Christmas tree... Now, after the Christmas rush, most of the stores
that carry the Wizard line have them in stock. I counted about 10 on the
shelf at the local CompUSA outlet last Saturday afternoon.

<=>
<=>I was told it will be out by march over here.  Is it already available in
<=>the US or Japan?  (i plan to move in USA by end february, Dallas area)
<=>

Definitely out and available. Everyone that I've talked to that has one seems
to love it. The only negative comments seem to be about the screen being
dimmer than the 8xxx version.

<=>How much does it cost?

I don't know what the list price is - probably around $650, but the stores
here are selling them for just under $500.

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From: goodman@equinox.unr.edu (Dr. Philip Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Best palmtop w/ internal modem?
Date: 8 Jan 93 07:20:47 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

In order to access my internet node while traveling, I would like
a palmtop that:

1. Has a screen of sufficient capacity to make reading email feasible,

and,

2. Has an internal modem, so that I don't need to carry extra baggage
(which is why I want to use a palmtop to begin with)

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Phil


___________________________
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| __\ | _ \ |  \/  || _ \   Associate Professor & CBMR Director
||    ||_// ||\  /||||_//   Cardiovascular Studies Team Leader
||    | _(  || \/ ||| _(    
||__  ||_\\ ||    |||| \\   CENTER for BIOMEDICAL MODELING RESEARCH
|___/ |___/ ||    ||||  \\  University of Nevada School of Medicine
                            Washoe Medical Center H166, 77 Pringle Way,
                            Reno, NV 89520   702-328-4867  FAX:328-4111

'Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination'  Immanuel Kant
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: howesb@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Howes)
Subject: FAQ answered about DOS booting
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:08:38 GMT

The short answer: need SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P in CONFIG.SYS
----
The answers I got said I needed a config.sys, and I needed to reboot with
CTRL-ALT-DEL or else it would never run.

No one mentioned the shell variable.  And although I did run across a
config.sys or three while searching the archives, this fact didn't stand
out.

Definitely needs to be added to the FAQ.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: IR95 is excellent
Date: 6 Jan 1993 03:37:01 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <lkk4cuINN50r@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:

>HP95's have built-in infra-red transmitter/receivers.  Nominally, they're
>used to communicate with other HP95's.  (Question for the net: anybody
>have a list of hardware that the HP95 can talk to via the IR port?)

Maybe a list of hardware that it can't talk to would be shorter :-).

I've actually tried, or just heard of, the following devices:
Hardware		Software
--------		--------
HP-48SX			built in Kermit
Mitshubishi TV		RemCom
Toshiba TV		RemCom
Kenwood	stereo		RemCom
Sony video equipment	
HP IR Printer		IRPRTSC (print screen only) 
	 (both models?)

IR95 and myRemote probably work about as well as RemCom.  At the moment
there is no receiver to get data from an HP-28 or other HP calculator
other than the HP-48 machines.  However, there is a program called
INPRT available for the HP-48 machines that can.

There are IR interfaces on several electronic organisers like the newer
Sharps, Rolodex units, and others.  Has anyone tried to decode these?
--
<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: aka@cix.compulink.co.uk (AWARE)
Subject: Re Psion organiser II model LZ          
Cc: aka@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: aka@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:56:00 +0000

You can contact your local distributor (PSION Inc in the US) to ask a
technical reference manual which describe everything  (or almost) about this
little computer.

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From: ih@huey.udel.edu (Charlie Ih)
Subject: Re: external power on 95
Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:26:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.035613.7489@craycos.com> ewv@craycos.com (Eric Varsanyi) writes:
>In article <1ii9pbINNlgn@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
>>I'm one of the editors of the HP95 FAQ list and I posted that article.
>>What would be a good power supply to use?  It sounds like both of those
>>......
>I plug my HP95 into a Cessna-172 lighter plug on a regular basis (13.8V
>and really noisy) with no ill effects. I also plug into my Ford Explorer
>electrical system (also 13.8) for many hours at a time with no ill
>effects.
>......

I don't know what is the charging voltage for the airplane battry.
For the car, the terminal charging voltage is 14.5 - 14.8 v.
(13.8 v freshly charged and normally 12.6 v).

BTW, what type of battery HP95LX uses.  I assume that it uses 2 AA's.
(I don't own one).  In this case, the HP95LX must have a built-in
"regulator". Of course, the "regulator" may be damaged when
the voltage is too high.
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   From: goodman@equinox.unr.edu (Dr. Philip Goodman)
   Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
   Date: 8 Jan 93 07:20:47 GMT
   Distribution: comp.sys.palmtops
   Organization: University of Nevada, Reno
   Lines: 26

   In order to access my internet node while traveling, I would like
   a palmtop that:

   1. Has a screen of sufficient capacity to make reading email feasible,

   and,

   2. Has an internal modem, so that I don't need to carry extra baggage
   (which is why I want to use a palmtop to begin with)

   Thanks in advance for your advice.

   Phil


   ___________________________
   ___________________________ Phil Goodman,MD,MS  goodman@unr.edu
   | __\ | _ \ |  \/  || _ \   Associate Professor & CBMR Director
   ||    ||_// ||\  /||||_//   Cardiovascular Studies Team Leader
   ||    | _(  || \/ ||| _(
   ||__  ||_\\ ||    |||| \\   CENTER for BIOMEDICAL MODELING RESEARCH
   |___/ |___/ ||    ||||  \\  University of Nevada School of Medicine
			       Washoe Medical Center H166, 77 Pringle Way,
			       Reno, NV 89520   702-328-4867  FAX:328-4111

   'Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination'  Immanuel Kant

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From: genem@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Gene Marshall)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:59:47 GMT
Subject: Re: External Power on 95 affects clock
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops

I run mine on a 13.8v DC power source, sometimes for weeks on end.
No problem.

Gene
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: mjohnson@force.decnet.lockheed.com (Mark E. Johnson)
Subject: 95LX null modem transfers
Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: Lockheed, USC, and UT-Austin
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 01:18:06 GMT

Over the holidays I got EduCALC's serial cable for the HP95LX. It's
supposed to work just like the one that comes in HP's own Connectivity
pack. Now what do I do? I suspect I need to hook up a null modem transfer,
using my PC's comm program and the 95's internal Xmodem. (Once I get ZIP
across, it should be easy.) However, I surprised myself by being totally
perplexed as to how to hook everything up. Well, I can figure out the cable
(serial port to serial port), but what do I do on the software end?

________________________________________________________________________
-Mark Johnson                         mjohnson@force.decnet.lockheed.com
From: nye@voglnp.pnl.gov (JP Nye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Derive for Sale
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:36:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: oracle.1993Jan6.013623.18655
Reply-To: nye@voglnp.pnl.gov
Organization: Battelle Pacific N.W. Lab's

In article D4G@iat.holonet.net, brianw@iat.holonet.net (Brian Walsh) writes:
>jeremyw@well.sf.ca.us (Jeremy Weinstein) writes:
>: Shrink-wrap software licenses are not necessaruly enforceable or binding.
>: Check Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
>I'm no expert but try to respect the programmers' rights.
>-- 
>-- Brian Walsh
>   brianw@holonet.net

Email or another newsgroup is calling you both ....
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