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From: simonm@mel.dit.csiro.au (Simon McClenahan)
Subject: Where/what/why/how ?
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 00:06:40 GMT


Hi,
	I have seen Pyramid machines for sale going cheap. I was wondering
if anyone can tell me exactly what a Pyramid machine is, the different models
(old and new), even a bit about the company, and where to get versions of
the system software?

cheers,


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From: joe.george@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Joe George) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: IR95 is excellent
Date: 9 Jan 93 06:26:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: joe.george@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Joe George) 


YL->Uhm, I do not own HP95 and do not understand what you people are
YL->talking about. :-( I automatically skips whenever the title says HP95.)

You have my sympathies (grin). The HP 95LX is a marvel of engineering,
easily one of the greatest innovations in the past few years.

YL->This IR95 caught my eyes today. It sounds IR95 is software. Am I right?
YL->Then, where do you get infra-red to remote-control electronic devices?
YL->I know this must be a pretty stupid question. If you bought a device doing
YL->it, what is the name of it?

IR95.zip is software that drives the InfraRed port on the (sorry) HP95,
to use it as a universal remote control.  I dont think that Ir95 will
work on any other computer type than the HP.


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From: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams)
Subject: Re: Tiny, 24x80 flat terminal.
Followup-To: poster
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:42:31 GMT

In article <1ials4INNcro@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
>This program and the fnt80x25 program are available on Compuserve.  The
>author, David K. Goodman (72330.130@compuserve.com) has specifically
>prohibited distribution of any of his software on the Internet or
>Usenet.

What reason has he given for this?  This seems like a totally bizzare
attitude to me...



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Subject: A few Psion 3 questions
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:31:45 GMT

Well, on my last day on a vacation in London, I stumbled across a shop
selling the Psion 3 for &214 sterling (or should that be #214), which
comes out to about $275 after the VAT refund, etc.  Anyway, I couldn't
resist taking the plunge.  So I picked it up along with the mac link, a
few memory cards, etc.

Now that I have it (and hardly having had time to turn it on let alone
read the manual), a few obligatory questions if I might...

a) From skimming the booklet that came with the mac link, the COMMS utility
   supports no emulation.  Do most people make due with that?  Or is there
   another more popular net program for such things?  How does one ordinarily
   deal with the screen size issue? 

b) Has anyone tried the Psion 3 with a Mobidem?  (who makes those things
   anyway and how much are they?)

c) Anyone written Tetris yet?

d) In connecting to an external modem, what sort of cable is needed?
   Obviously the Din-8 <-> Din-8 they send just connects straight across,
   so I presume that in order to connect from the Link to a modem I would
   need to acquire a null-modem cable between Din8 and whatever the modem
   is.  Am I correct?  Or have I reversed something somewhere?

Anyway, I guess I'll go and read the manual now... :-)


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From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Psion, Atari Portfolio, HP-95LX FTP sites
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:02:45 GMT
Reply-To: hdavies@rx.xerox.com
Organization: Rank Xerox Ltd.

In article 1ib4bdINNe9b@uwm.edu, anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
>I guess it's time to put something like this together.
>
>Palmtop Anonymous FTP Archive List:
>

[list deleted]


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Nice idea, but why not just tell people how to use Archie?
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From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Ram card compatibility
Date: 12 Jan 1993 05:23:16 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1993Jan11.153315.597@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> wentzel@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Kevin Wentzel) writes:
>Does anyone know about compatibility between ram cards for the various
>palmtop computers and organizers?  I need to find a card for a Sharp
>organizer and in Educalc, there seem to be better prices for ram cards
>for HP 95LX etc than for the organizers.

Here is a fragment of a Comp.sys.{handhelds,palmtops} FAQ that I've
been  working on when I really should be working on the HP-95LX FAQ :-).

Q: Are foo cards compatible with bar computer?
A: 
machine			description		name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atari Portfolio		card edge		proprietary (Mitsubishi?)
Casio BOSS					proprietary
HP-48SX			single sided card edge	proprietary (Epson?)
HP-95LX			68 dual pin socket	PCMCIA 1.0, Type II
Psion Series 3					proprietary
Sharp PC-3x00		68 pin dual row socket	PCMCIA 1.0
Sharp Wizard		single row pin socket		proprietary
Zeos			68 dual pin socket	PCMCIA 1.0
Smith-Corona		single sided card edge	sort of compatible with HP-48SX

Q: What's PCMCIA?
A: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.
The organization has produced two standards for cards, PCMCIA 1.0 and
PCMCIA 2.0.  Version 1.0 is only for SRAM and ROM cards of up to 64MB.
Version 2.0 extends the standard to include I/O devices such as modems,
network adapters, hard disk drives, and other devices.  The cards have
the same long dimensions as the standard credit cards modulo corner
rounding.  The are several standard thickneses, which are refered to as
card types.  See csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop/pcmcia.specifications
for details.

Q: What's the best organizer/palmtop?
A: Previous discussions on this topic from comp.sys.handhelds and
comp.sys.pamtops have been archived and are available via anonymous ftp
at csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop/*.news.  There is no one best machine,
each has its own trade-offs of size, computing power, software, and
other features.  A list of some machines is available via anonymous ftp
from the csd4 archive site in the pcmcia.machines.* files.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: MODEM FOR HP95                                                                  
From: Programmierer@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (055485666: MEDIAtex AG)
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:23:15 CET
Organization: MEDIAtex AG, CH-8807 Freienbach/SZ

does anybody know, where I can get a modem for the HP95's PCMCIA-Slot?

The requirements I have are minimum 2400 Bps and if possible MNP5.
It should also work with the builtin terminal emulation.

Where can I get such a thing and what does this cost?





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From: nbl@solomon.technet.sg (Ng Beng Lim)
Subject: Re: Brand New SHARP IQ9000 - infos wanted
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:48:09 GMT

It's available here in Singapore under the name IQ9000.  They are selling
x-it here for S$799, which sould be about US$490.

I don't quite like it.  Although the graphics look fantastic and the
scheduling looks better, the system is still very closed.  Its support for
the cards is also very awkward.  The screen turns back to 40x8, and the
words become very small.  The touchpad on the external cards are  not used
at all but instead the pictures are actually simulated on the new bigger
LCD screen (hence the orignal 40x8 screen becomes very small).

It has infrared support, but I don't know if anyone one has figured out
how the program it like the IR95 program?


The selling point is also the pen interface.  However, this interface is
of minimal use (How much drawings can you fit into the small screen with
the big pen nib?)  I believe it is more gimmicky than useful.

Just a few of my observations.

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From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Some Questions
Date: 5 Jan 1993 04:05:20 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1i860qINNkst@life.ai.mit.edu> mirsky@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Joshua Mirsky) writes:
> processor which can use Mac files.  However, I am wondering how well
>it deals with documents which are formatted to have 80 characters per line,
>opposed to the 40 or so which is visible on the Psion screen.  Does anyone
>know of a palmtop which is better for word processing Mac files? Are there

The Psion 3 has a MS-Word compatible word processor in it, MS-Word is
available for Macintoshes, so in that sense the Psion 3 has a Macintosh
compatible word processor.  If you happen to use a Macintosh word
processor that can't handle MS-Word files you might have a problem.

Any of the MS-DOS palmtops should be able to run MS-Word as well (with
the possible exception of the HP-95LX).  I think the MS-Works word
processor can generate files that are readable by MS-Word.  The Zeos
Pocket PC has MS-Works built in, although the software could also be
installed on other palmtops.  All of the MS-DOS palmtops, except for
the HP-95LX, have 80x25 displays and are also about twice the size of
the Psion 3.

>any palmtops now or in the near future thathave backlit screens so they
>can be used in low lighting?

The smallest machine I know of with a backlight is the Gateway 2000
HandBook.  The machine could be considered either a subnotebook or a
palmtop.  Backlights take a lot of power, which contributes to the 4
hour battery life of the HandBook.  Larger machines begin to approach
the size and cost of a Macintosh Duo.
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From: ppicot@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Paul Picot)
Subject: Re: Sharp Palmtops???
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Distribution: world 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:18:17 GMT


nbl@solomon.technet.sg (Ng Beng Lim) writes:

>I just discovered that my sony adapter has the same plug as that for the
>Sharp.  The rating for the adapter is 6V and 300mA.  It seems to work OK
>with the set.

I guess you lucked out with the polarity, as well as the connector.

>The Sharp manual says that the output for the adapter should be 6.3V and 1A.

>Do you think the Sony adapter will give any problem?

If it works, Great.

As I mentioned in a previous post though, you might _think_ you are
running on external power, but aren't.  The way to see if your AC
adapter is supplying sufficient current is to run your machine in low
power mode, but at high speed.  When you hit a key, the processor will
restart and draw 5x the current.  If the screen blinks, the AC adapter
just pooped out and couldn't supply the current, so the batteries took
up the slack.  The switchover seems to cause the LCD to blink.

You'll also see the effect if you are running the desk clock on low-power
mode, since it does a high-power CPU burst to update the clock display
once per second, and will blink the whole display once per second.

Anyway, since you've done it already, can you measure the open-circuit
voltage of your adapter?  I have no idea how much the PC-3100 can take,
and am a bit reluctant to destructively test mine... :-)  I am building
a rechargable pack for it and wonder if I need to go through the
trouble of including a regulator or DC-DC convertor...

Thanks,

Paul Picot    ppicot@irus.rri.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: brianw@iat.holonet.net (Brian Walsh)
Subject: Re: Derive for Sale
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Distribution: us,usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:23:31 GMT

edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil) writes:
: I never agreed to Soft Warehouse's license; the ROM card was sold to me
: without condition other than the guarantees printed in EduCalc's
: catalog.  The software is subject to copyright law, but I am making no
: copies, just selling the one I have.

By opening a software package (disks or plug-in card) you automatically
agree to the manufacturer's license, as the packaging makes clear.  While
an earlier (outdated) version is in ROM instead of on floppy disks, either
is intended for the bit bucket on purchasing an update.  It may seem a gray
area, but I'd be surprised if Soft Warehouse's disposition differs from
this.  Whether EduCalc's catalog stated that is irrelevant.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: Psion 3S w/o a PC
Organization: City University, London
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 13:47:46 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.121318.15384@geosys.co.uk> steve@geosys.co.uk writes:
>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. 

You don't really need a PC. Amiga or Sun is fine. I use a script
file on the S3 where I just put in all my directories as entries.
Takes a bit of time the first time round, but with the level of
automation possible, subsequent backups are just a couple of
menu selections. I use Y modem to transfer all files in a directory
once.

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From: gingell@aurs01.UUCP (Mike Gingell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: external power on 95
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:57:55 GMT
Reply-To: gingell@aurw6b.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Mike Gingell)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC

In article <1993Jan3.1238.3828@channel1> "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com> writes:
>
>I use the Radio Shack (Archer) 273-1651B which was recommended in
>_Palmtop Papers_. It puts out 9V DC, 500 mA. Clock keeps accurate
>time, and 95 doesn't heat up. I also have made a little portable
>battery pack by putting four 9V (snaptop) batteries in parallel
>and running them into a barrel connector that fits the power port
>on the 95. 

Be very careful, wiring batteries in parrallel could burn a hole
in your pocket unless you put in some protection. If one of the
batteries goes low the others will back feed into it, worse if it
goes bad.  I would recommend putting a diode in series with each
battery before wiring them in parallel.

Interesting about the 273-1651B. It is rated at 9V 500 mA while
the 273-1455 recommended in the HP95 FAQ is rated at 9V 300 mA.
In practice these adapters generally develop significantly more
than their rated voltage on no load so that under load the voltage
(which will fall due to internal losses) will be correct. The
1455 puts out 11.5 volts on no load.

Someone else also posted info from a recent manual which says
the voltage limit on the HP95 is 12 volts maximum.  This does
not neccessarily mean that it is safe to run it at 12 volts
specially if the adapter has inadequate filtering of the
rectified AC.  12 volts is probably the absolute maximum rating.


Mike Gingell, Alcatel, Raleigh, NC USA  (919) 850-6444
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From: toin@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Toin Bloo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Psion 3, question ...
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:13:33 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Richard Cryer (rjc@seachang.demon.co.uk) wrote:

:    I have been reading news relating to the Psion 3 (both positive and
:    negative aspects!) recently and have finally decided to purchase the
:    beast. However, while speaking to a freind about this I was told to
:    save my money and wait for the new Psion machine to come out in a 
:    couple of months. My freind had heard a rumour that a completely new
:    Psion machine was almost due to be release, but had no other info.
:    
:    Does anyone know whether or not this rumour is true ?  If so, what
:    type of machine is it ?
: 
:    I sit with bated breath (and a pocket full of burning money !).

first:  I think this is really a rumour.
second: It takes about five years to design a new palmtop (or any other
        real good computer) and make it serial-production-available. The
        Psion Series 3 is of 1991...
third:  Don't let the money burn...buy your Psion. It's really worth it.
fourth: If your are going to wait, wait till the Apple Newton is there...


-- Toin

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From: tguenthe@sendit.NoDak.edu (Troy Harley Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Sharp Wizard Wanted
Date: 11 Jan 1993 18:09:52 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Reply-To: tguenthe@sendit.NoDak.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



Well, I've finally found time to organize my life (and those little scraps
of paper we all have) so I'm looking to buy a Sharp Wizard organizer.
Models that I would be really interested in buying are the OZ-8000's or
the OZ-7600's.  Models that I would also be interested in looking at are
any of the OZ-7400's, the OZ-7000's, or the YO-600's.  (When I say 8000's,
I mean 8000, 8200, 8600.  The same for all the others.)  Heck, if someone
wants to get rid of their new OZ-9600 for $250, I'll look at that too  :-)
I'm also interested in any accessories (IC cards or a Mac Link II).  Please
send me e-mail if you have anything like this available.  There may be
other Wizards out there that I may like (I've heard of IQ-8000's,
IQ-7600's, IQ-7000's & ZQ's which I've only seen prices, but never
descriptions).  If you have one of these for sale, write a description of
it and send it to me please.  Thanks

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From: jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Future of HP95LX ?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 02:09:10 GMT
Organization: private system, Toronto, Ontario

In article <C0Cy8I.46@newsserver.technet.sg> nbl@solomon.technet.sg (Ng Beng Lim) writes:
>The prices of the 95lx has dropped quite a lot.  I am thinking of getting
>one, the 512K model.  The IR95 program seems very useful.
>
>However I am not quite sure if a new model is coming out quite soon.  There
>have been a lot of talk of a new model with the Kittyhawk 20 MB hard disk.
>
>Does anyone have any info on the dates?

    I don't have the dates for the next release (and, working for IBM, I'll
    not likely get them :-) ) but having just purchased a 1 meg model and 
    immediately consuming the entire memory I would *strongly* recommend
    that you spend the extra money and by the 1 meg model unless the 512k
    system with an extra memory card look cheaper where you are (they sure
    aren't here).

                         --jrh
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: nara@toolik.Colorado.EDU (Dennis Nara)
Subject: WANTED:  ir95 KIR files
Summary: want ir95 kir files please
Keywords: ir95 KIR infra-red remote hp95lx
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:43:31 GMT

I'm testing a hypothesis about infra-red remotes but require more
data than the two remotes I have.

If you have a KIR file as used by ir95 on the HP95LX and would be so
kind as to send them to me (nara@taimyr.colorado.edu), properly sent 
as uuencoded binary files, I would greatly appreciate it.

Please include the type of machine and model number of the machine
and or remote, e.g. Sony HandiBOSS Camcorder model IQ95.

whatever fruits may spring from this labor will be shared.

thanks,

d.
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: SPEL95.ZIP
Date: 10 Jan 1993 09:45:36 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Keywords: Spell Checker HP95LX

In article <1ilqlcINN8uo@DIALix.oz.au> dougal@DIALix.oz.au (Doug Paice) writes:
>I just got the latest issue of the palmtop paper (NOV/DEC) it mentions a 
>freeware TSR called SPEL95.  This is a TSR (60k ram) which checks the 
>the spelling of any word after it has been typed.  Apparently it beeps
>when ever it discovers a word it doesn't know.  

I didn't find a SPEL95 via archie, but I did find "aspll095.zip"
aka AutoSpeller. It's in the txtutl directory of SIMTEL20 or its
mirrors (such as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/systems/msdos/simtel20).  The
program is a ~60KB TSR, but doesn't seem to have been written with the
HP-95LX in mind.  The identical program appears to also be available as
"emacspel.zip", the Freemacs spell checker.  The programs appear to be
the same, but the former archive has some extra documentation.
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