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From: painter@enoki.zso.dec.com (John Painter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: SELL/BUY ... Sharp 6220 stuff .
Summary: need / have Sharp 6220 parts
Keywords: Parts
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:10:05 GMT
Reply-To: painter@zso.dec.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering

I have a Sharp 6220 that has died in a rather odd manner. It lost two columns
of pixels (each about 8 pixels wide) from the top right of the screen to half
way down the screen. This is most likely due to excessive vibration while
moving, and has been traced down to two ICs on the LCD becoming unbonded (for
those souls not intrepid enough to crack the case open, the LCD has IC dies
bonded directly to a flexible PC with solder bump technology).  I will attempt
to get Sharp to quote a reasonable repair, and if they don't will attempt the
repair myself, but the chances of either being successful ar slim. Hence the
post. This is the only damage to the device, which otherwise works perfectly.

I anticipate having the following for sale and will entertain offers on the
whole or the parts (will work with TI Travelmate 2000 as well):

	Sharp 6220 with above damage, or:
		(2) 1 meg RAM expansion cards (brings total mem to 3 Meg)
		(1) Megahertz 2400 Baud MNP5 / 9600 Baud fax modem
		(1) 20 Meg 2.5 inch drive (only if I can't sell the complete
					   carcass)
                (1) dead Sharp 6220-minus everything above
	(1) Cannon BJ10 that has mysteriously refused to print (the carriage
	    won't advance toward the paper, and occasionally I get errors on
	    powerup) This printer has been only used for about 30 prints. I
	    just don't have the inclination to deal with it.

    OR

I would like to buy a dead Sharp 6220 or TI 2000 (I think the 3000 would work
too) that has no damage to the LCD display.

Email to painter@zso.dec.com with offers/suggestions.    
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: karger@osf.org (Paul A. Karger)
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100's
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:23:57 GMT

Do any Price Club stores exist in the greater Boston or 
southern New Hampshire area?  The Powerbook 100 deal sounds
good, but around here, the only membership stores that I
know of are Costco and BJ's Wholesale Club.

Thanks!
Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: jaz@lucid.com (Jim Zaun)
Subject: Re: HELP ME WITH MY NI-CAD BATTERY PLEASE!!!!!!
Reply-To: jaz@lucid.com (Jim Zaun)
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 00:12:54 GMT

> 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.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias)
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 bad deal?
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:21:57 GMT


> List of questions about the Mac PowerBook 100 deleted...

The PB 100 is actually a pretty clever design.  Of the original three
models (not sure about the 145) it is only one that you can set up with
a RAM drive that you can boot from (a very nice feature that makes for
*very* fast startup times).  You can also get an adapter that will make
the HD on your PB look like a SCSI hard drive.  So if you want to transfer
files from you PB to your desktop Mac, it's just a matter of connect your
PB to the SCSI port of your desktop Mac.  Bang you have both hard drives
on your desktop.  Very cool...>

>Todays New York Times has two ads: $798 for 2/20; $1095 for 4/20 with
>ext. monitor adapter.

I'm no judge of the current market prices but if it were me, I would
buy the 2/20 and use the money saved to help buy an extra 6 megs of
RAM (part of which you could use as a RAM drive).  Also worth 
checking out is AutoDoubler automatic file compression software.  In
effect, more/less doubles the size of you hard drive.

Edgar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.zenith,comp.sys.misc
From: bsingh@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Balraj Singh)
Subject: Zenith Supersport 286 parts for sale!
Followup-To: bsingh@cory.berkeley.edu
Keywords: zenith, parts
Organization: EECS, University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:57:58 GMT

Hi,

The following components for a zenith supersport 286 laptop are 
for sale:

	1. 20meg HD (internal)				sold
	2. 1.44 meg floppy drive			sold
	3. lcd screen (original from the laptop)	$60 obo
	4. keyboard (internal)				$25 obo
	5. battery pack (original)			$50 obo

all these parts are original and must be sold asap. please
contact balraj at bsingh@cory.berkeley.edu or (510) 649-8346

thanx
balraj



Disclaimer -

	If these were the views of the EECS Dept. at UC Berkeley it 
would be a much cooler place to study...
From: blave@netcom.com (David W. Blevins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Portable sound
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:22:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

The Media Vision Audioport (I think that's the name) is a parallel port
gizmo, VERY small, that has a built in speaker and SB-like functionality.
It does require the TSR for Soundblaster compatibility, and they recommend
a 386SX or better to use this software.  I don't know how "good" their
SB emulation is...

For laptops, this seems like the only game in town, at least until they
start building sound h/w in.  Hopefully, this unit will become the
"standard" to the point where the game mfrs support it directly.

An acquaintance bought one and promptly took it apart; it's a real
marvel of surface mount and enclosure engineering.

As a former PAS16 owner (didn't work with my PC), I will say that
Media Vision's stuff is pretty good in general.  Their software needs
some work and the PAS16 is no DAT recorder but they'll be around for
the long haul, Microsoft's mystery soundboard notwithstanding.

Cheers,   Blave, still a SB1.0 guy for the time being
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: kritchie@mail1.cis.umn.edu (Kent C Ritchie)
Subject: Re: T1000SE... is it alright to keep it plugged in all the time?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:59:36 GMT

The main battery should be left in place to preserve the info on the HardRam
or any programs suspended by autoresume.  The "big" little battery is a 
backup for ram in the case that the main battery goes dead.  True, it won't 
last long without the main battery, but how long do you wait to recharge the
main battery if you drain it all the way.  I cahrge mine within a few hours.

As to leaving it plugged in all the time.  Toshiba says it is fine as long
as you totally discharge the battery once every two weeks.  What happens is
the battery reaches full charge and turns off the charger.  When the battery
level dips below full, the charger starts up to recharge.  So you might get
a little memory effect from leaving it plugged in for LONG periods of time...
like weeks.  I have never had a problem, but I discharge my battery once
every 2 or 3 days at least.

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.

Kent
From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Trouble with Toshiba T1000SE - Can only help?
Date: 26 Aug 1992 15:14:42 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx

In article <1992Aug25.183720.3770@news.ysu.edu> ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben) writes:
>I have a Toshiba T1000SE that is about 1-1/2 years old. The laptop
>no longer goes on when I try to put it on. When I have it charging,
>the lights seem to indicate that it is charged, as I get aq green
>light, but as soon as I try to turn it on, the red light starts
>blinking and the green light goes off. This all happens while
>I have it plugged in.

	As I'm sure people have told you, you need a new battery which can be
purchased from most mail-order laptops places. I never had trouble with
Toshiba service. In fact, several batteries have died similarly over the past
2 years and each time, I call Toshiba and they have sent a new one free.
	For now, just to get it to work while plugged in, you have NiCad
whisker disease. You can blow them away by passing a high current pulse through
the battery. Try 1 second charge from a standard 12Volt car battery charger.
You will then revitalize the battery at least enough to use while constantly
plugged in.

				Cheers,
				Dan Ts'o		212-327-7671
				Dept. Neurobiology	dan@rna.rockefeller.edu
				Rockefeller Univ.	...s5!rna!dan
				1230 York Ave.		tso@rockvax.bitnet
				NY, NY 10021
From: 0003735974@MCIMAIL.COM (Jim Gorak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: PSION Series 3 Palmtop
Date: 1 Sep 92 05:04:00 GMT

I have recently become the owner of a PSION Series 3 palmtop computer.
I'm interested in:
 
 -Comments from others with experience using the Series 3.
 -Information on the serial & parallel I/O options.
 -Has anyone developed any useful programs in PSION's OPL language?
 -Are there any public domain OPL programs?
 
Thanks...
 
Regards,  Jim Gorak
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From: deanc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dean Cashen)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 08:22:21 GMT
Subject: Re: PC Brand. A dream machine
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops

In comp.sys.laptops / james.roy@synapse.isis.org (James Roy):

YG>Subject: PC Brand. A dream machine for $2,460? Wht's the catch?

> The catch is that the "486" is a Cyrix clone which has only a 1K cache
> on board and is really a 386 running 486 code.

"[only] a 386 running 486 code?"  What does that mean?  Isn't that
like saying "The engine is a V8 using only 8 cylinders?"  This
subject has been beat to subjective, emotional death in other news
groups, and it boils down to this: the Cyrix chip is given a
"386 stamp" because it sits in a 386 socket and has "only" 1K of
cache.  That it runs the 486 instruction seems unimportant.

>                   . . .  Compatibility seems OK
> but it hasn't been fully tested.

No one's found any problems with compatibility.  As far as I know,
it's run DOS, OS2, Windows, PC Bench, Excel, Lotus, Un*x, so forth.
No one's found any compatibility problems.  What further tests are you
waiting for?

>                        . . .      The real kicker is the speed - PC
> Brand claims it beats the hell out of 386SX-25's but PC Mag was not so
> happy with the speed and generally found the implmenentation of the
> chip not optimized for the best speed capable from the chip.

What are you saying here?  You say that it's "claimed" that the chip
is faster than the 386SX/25, and then you say how PC Mag wasn't
"so happy with the speed."  It *is* faster than the 386SX/25, but you
sidestep that.  Geez.  Do you work for Intel?

> That being said, the price is right given everything offered.

I'm not sure what you were trying to say.  This is vague.

If you mean "I don't trust this chip because I don't know
much about it," or, "I think this chip is slower because
1K is less than 8K so it *must* be slower, right?" or
"This thing sits in a socket that fits '386 chips, so it's
gotta be a '386, right?" then SAY that.  Don't equivocate.

I don't have any affinity for, or against, Intel or Cyrix.  But,
these opinions about the Cyrix 486 chip bug me; people are
ready to offer their opinions about it, based on emotion or
preconception, rather than objective thought.

Dean Cashen
-- Boise

--------<disclaimer>----------
HP and I share some views, but
the ones above are all mine...
From: chein@eng.auburn.edu (Tsan Heui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: HELP ME WITH MY NI-CAD BATTERY PLEASE!!!!!!
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:13:10 GMT
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

In article <1992Sep1.154320.14655@iitmax.iit.edu> keivjam@elof.iit.edu (James Keivom) writes:
>The other day I think I used the battery on my video camera till it was completely used
>up, or "discharged completely" as the manual warned against.  After that, I left it without

Actually, manufacturers suggest a totally discharge before you recharge the battery, this rule applies to all NiCad battery.

>charging it up.  Two days after that, I decided to charge it, but now, after 28 hours of
>charging, the most power the battery will provide the camcorder is about 7 seconds of
>power.  Is there a way to bring the ni-cad battery back to full capacity.  Is this the memory-
>effect that ni-cads have?  

It is due to the memory effect that you'd better discharge a battery completely before the recharge. You may try to discharge it again by attaching a light bulb(any one used on a car will be good) and recharge. If you still can not get     power from it, either the battery is not good anymore or you should check the   charger.>
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys)
Subject: Re: UltraVision--Comments?  Clone?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:52:34 GMT


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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: dwv@cs.brown.edu (David W. Vorbrich)
Subject: 14.4 modem for Powerbook?
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:14:00 GMT

I'm considering buying a PowerBook (still), and I'm just curious...

Is there an internal 14.4 modem for the PowerBook?
	If So:	What company / phone number
		What price
		Will it fit into a PB110 (smaller box I think)

Thanks in advance.

-David V.
 dwv@cs.brown.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 bad deal?
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:12:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.132157.20268@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias) writes:
>
>> List of questions about the Mac PowerBook 100 deleted...
>
>The PB 100 is actually a pretty clever design.  Of the original three
> etc.etc.etc.....
>on your desktop.  Very cool...>
>
>>Todays New York Times has two ads: $798 for 2/20; $1095 for 4/20 with
>>ext. monitor adapter.
>
>I'm no judge of the current market prices but if it were me, I would
>buy the 2/20 and use the money saved to help buy an extra 6 megs of
>RAM (part of which you could use as a RAM drive).  Also worth 
>checking out is AutoDoubler automatic file compression software.  In
>effect, more/less doubles the size of you hard drive.
>
Also be aware that the Price Club chain is selling a large number
of PowerBook 100 4/40s with the external floppy for $899. Check your
local store (if you have one) for availablility.

Regards,
Tom Karches
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From: hellers@wisc.edu (Joe Hellerstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: laptop UNIX
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:47:36 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: UW-Madison

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...

Joe Hellerstein
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Toshiba BBS
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:54:52 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science


Does Toshiba maintain a BBS or ftp site?  I'd be interested in the
specifics if anyone has any info.


Thanks!
-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
From: mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com (Mickey Ferguson)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 15:27:04 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: HELP ME WITH MY NI-CAD BATTERY PLEASE!!!!!!
Organization: Rolm
Disclaimer: This note represents my views, not those of Rolm or IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <1992Sep1.154320.14655@iitmax.iit.edu> James Keivom writes:
>Since most laptop users are familiar with ni-cad batteries, I thought I might ask for help.
>The other day I think I used the battery on my video camera till it was completely used
>up, or "discharged completely" as the manual warned against.  After that, I left it without
>charging it up.  Two days after that, I decided to charge it, but now, after 28 hours of
>charging, the most power the battery will provide the camcorder is about 7 seconds of
>power.  Is there a way to bring the ni-cad battery back to full capacity.  Is this the memory-
>effect that ni-cads have?

More than likely, if the manufacturer tells you that you shouldn't fully
discharge your batteries, they aren't NiCd batteries.  The NiCd should be
fully discharged before recharging again.  However, and this may be what
the manufacturer was really warning against, they shouldn't be DEEP-
discharged.  What happens, as I understand it, is that when you have more
than one battery in the battery pack, you get reverse charges, and that
destroys the batteries.  There are some ways to bring them back to life,
but they are risky and have very low success rates, and I don't even know
what they are.  Your best bet is just to bite the bullet and buy a new
battery pack, and chalk it up as a learning experience.

Mickey Ferguson -- Rolm -- FergusoM at scrvm2 -- mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com
From: jeff@eng.umd.edu (Jeffrey Frey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Source for PreProgrammed Cards
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:11:31 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

Perhaps this has been mentioned before, but a small Bay Area
Company called Memory Card Associates will supply RAMcards,
FLASHcards, card programmers--and will also put your own software
onto FLASH or SRAMcrds.

They also have some programs ready-to-go for the Poqet and maybe
for other PCMCIA computers.

Their telephone number is 408-732-2550.

Jeff
From: Guy_Saffold@mindlink.bc.ca (Guy Saffold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Feedback requested on Toshiba T4400SX b/w laptop
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:44:58 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I've been using a T4400SX for the last two weeks and have enjoyed it very much.
The speed and processing power are superb, especially for running windows.
Screen is excellent, and I have found the keyboard to be among the best I've
ever used on a portable.  Connects very well to my VGA color monitor when I am
at my desk.  Power saving features are great and the fax-modem I have installed
is very useful to me.

I have some quibbles.  The hinged access panel on the back is very flimsy; it
was clearly going to break off if I didn't remove it first.  The keyboard is
flat and the front of the machine does not taper toward the desk but drops
straight down leading to some discomfort typing (at least for me).  The battery
life is minimal in my opinion -- I get the 3 hours advertised but little more
and sometimes barely that.  Other 486 laptops are superior.  Finally, the price
is hefty.  I'm not certain that overall the Toshiba provides the best value per
dollar.

It is certainly more muscle than one would need for word processing alone --
probably even if you did run windows.  I like to run Pagemaker, however, which
it does with aplomb.  The portable trackballs are a very messy solution to the
pointing problem.  Even if you find the performance satisfactory -- and I don't
-- it is a nuisance to carry the machine about with a mouse sticking out the
side and a cord running to the back.  The Powerbook offers a far more elegant
solution.

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From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: T1000SE... is it alright to keep it plugged in all the time?
Date: 30 Aug 1992 18:38:52 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx

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
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
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.
				Cheers,
				Dan Ts'o		212-327-7671
				Dept. Neurobiology	dan@rna.rockefeller.edu
				Rockefeller Univ.	...s5!rna!dan
				1230 York Ave.		tso@rockvax.bitnet
				NY, NY 10021

Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: wmedetz@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Medetz Wilhelm)
Subject: Q: FTP site of Toshiba
Reply-To: wmedetz@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Medetz Wilhelm)
Organization: RISC, J.K. University of Linz, Austria
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:08:27 GMT

Does anyone know some ftp address of Toshiba.

I am looking for some X11 server with 256 colors for a 
Toshiba 6400.


Thanks in advance

W. Medetz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops