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From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Nickel Hydride Batteries
Date: 30 Jul 1992 21:01:18 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx

In article <DAN.92Jul29113636@dynasty.dyndata.uucp> dan@dyndata.com writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.195523.28010@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>> BUT(!!!!) the batteries have a nominal life of about 500 cycles.
>Whoa.  That sucks.  Aren't NiCd's up in the 1000's of cycles?

	So what is the true story. I thought that Nickel Hydride was th wave
of the future in batteries. It now sounds like they have drawbacks too.
	I note that Toshiba is apparently using regular NiCd batteries for
their new T4400 series. Does that mean Toshiba no longer thinks that nickel
hydride is better ?

				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: cchung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Chung)
Subject: Power Books
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.)
Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of
Disclaimer2: Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
Disclaimer3: control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 02:40:27 GMT


Hello out there,

I'm going to buy a Powerbook.  I'll either buy the 170 or wait for
the new  powerbook releases in October.

For those who have powerbooks of any model, please e-mail me what you like
and don't like about your powerbooks. I would really appreciate it.

And for anybody who has any rumors about the new powerbooks please
e-mail me too.


My e-mail address is : labccc@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu

Thanks everybody

Chris Chung
From: prad@clipper.ingr.com (PRADYUMNA  R. SANT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: WANTED : Powerbook 100
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:37:27 GMT
Distribution: ba




If you have Apple Powerbook 100 (2/20 or 4/40) + FD + fax/modem for sale,
I am interested. 

Send me e-mail at "prad@clipper.ingr.com"  with your asking price.


pradyumna

prad@clipper.ingr.com
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Nickel Hydride Batteries
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:55:23 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <DAN.92Jul22175414@dynasty.dyndata.uucp> dan@dyndata.com writes:
>I recently got a Toshiba T2200SX, and am wondering whether the nickel
>hydride batteries should be kept topped off, or should I let them
>discharge all the way before recharging?

Top them off if you need them to be fully charged when you transport it.
NiMH batteries have no memory effect, so the charge/discharge cycle will
not adversely affect the diacharge characteristics.

BUT(!!!!) the batteries have a nominal life of about 500 cycles. Toshiba
has said that every time you charge the batteries to completion (i.e.
they start to heat up at full charge) .... THAT'S ANOTHER CYCLE.
You could be charging from full discharge, or topping it off ...
and that's 1/500th of the life gone.



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Subject: RE: Bondwell Memory upgrade
From: brennan@unix.cis.pitt.edu
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 17:33:32 -0400
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
eceived: from unix.cis.pitt.edu by nd.edu id aa07289; 22 Jul 92 16:33 EST
X-PH: V3.7@nd.edu
To: brendan.r.kelly.7@nd.edu

In article <1992Jul21.161046.14636@news.nd.edu> you write:
>I am asking this for a friend without net access.
>
>He's got a Bondwell 310 with the standard 1 Meg of memory and would like
>to upgrade the memory if possible. (This is a '286 machine -- his is about
>3 years old.)
>
>Does anyone have phone numbers, etc. to reach Bondwell?
>
>Someone told me that the machine has 2 SIPP sockets.  Is this right?
>
>IS there anything special that has to be done in order make it work?
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Brendan Kelly
>
>Brendan.R.Kelly.7@nd.edu
 
This is the same one I've got- haven't added the memory so I don't know
what it takes (although I'd be interested in what you find out)
Numbers for Bondwell:
 
Tech service 1-800-288-4388
US Sales 1-800-888-6331
 
Their cost for the 1MB expansion is $149.95 plus parts/labor- it
appears from the accessories list that you can't just buy the thing
from them and put it in. I have seen the modules for sale in computer
shopper for $109-119 or so. Hope this helps out.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
David Brennan, Director           Internet: brennan@unix.cis.pitt.edu
School of Nursing Library         Voice:    412-622-4772
                                  FAX:      412-622-7169
St. Francis Medical Center        USnail:   400 45th St. Pittsburgh,PA 15201
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From: dan@dyndata.uucp (Dan Everhart)
Subject: Nickel Hydride Batteries
Reply-To: dan@dyndata.com
Organization: Dynamic Data & Electronics
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:54:14 GMT

I recently got a Toshiba T2200SX, and am wondering whether the nickel
hydride batteries should be kept topped off, or should I let them
discharge all the way before recharging?

Apologies if this is a FAQ.  I'd appreciate seeing the FAQ file for
this group, if there is one.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: dan@dyndata.uucp (Dan Everhart)
Subject: Re: Nickel Hydride Batteries
Reply-To: dan@dyndata.com
Organization: Dynamic Data & Electronics
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:36:36 GMT
	<1992Jul23.195523.28010@panix.com>

In article <1992Jul23.195523.28010@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:

> BUT(!!!!) the batteries have a nominal life of about 500 cycles. Toshiba
> has said that every time you charge the batteries to completion (i.e.
> they start to heat up at full charge) .... THAT'S ANOTHER CYCLE.
> You could be charging from full discharge, or topping it off ...
> and that's 1/500th of the life gone.


Whoa.  That sucks.  Aren't NiCd's up in the 1000's of cycles?  These
Toshiba batteries are expensive too, like $125.  So each topping off
costs $0.25.  I'd almost prefer NiCd's in that case, in spite of the
memory.  (I thought memory was not a problem any more in modern
Nicads, and in any case you can blow away the memory with a particular
charge/discharge technique, right?)

Looks to me like you could cram about 12 AA Nicad cells in the space
of a T2200 battery pack, but that would give you only 500 mAh compared
to the Toshiba's 2200 mAh.  Is nickel hydride 4x more space efficient
than nickel cadmium?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Subject: Re: 486SLC?
Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd, Ottawa
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:20:59 GMT

In article <13589@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan T'so) writes:
>
>	This month's PCmag talks about the Cyrix "486" processor, and how it
>really shouldn't be called a 486. It is basically a 386SX-like chip with a 1K
>cache. It doesn't have a 487-like FPU, nor an 8K cache and I think the
>instruction timing is more similar to a 386 than a 486: it benchmarks like a
>cached 386SX, apparently.

What make the 486slc "386sx-like"?

486slc executes the 486SX instruction set - totally. To me, that makes
it a 486 compatible chip. Like the 486SX, it does not have a FPU. Like
the 486SX, it has a cache (albeit a 1K instead of a 8K cache). All 
sources that I have read claims performance of around a 486SX. (Of 
course, benchmarking depends a great deal on what code you run, a lot
of DOS16 bit code is slow on any processor).


>	Other than that, its fine, if somewhat deceitful.

Other than being wrong, your article was fine, if somewhat careless
on the facts.


--
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Bell Northern Research  UUCP:     ..!uunet!bnrgate!bqneh3!schow
(613) 763-2831
Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.
From: deanc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dean Cashen)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:24:22 GMT
Subject: Re: notebook decisions
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops

As some of my previous postings have suggested, I like the PowerBook's
design and features.  And I'd like to get one.  I wouldn't, however, buy 
one on it's DOS capability alone.  I've read (not personal experience to
any real extent, mind you) that the capability, while it exists,
isn't "robust," and that it's slow.  But, you should try it
out yourself beforehand.  As you may be aware, PowerBooks don't run
DOS on their own right out of the box, and you have to buy a third-party
package ("SoftAT" is one example) to run DOS programs.  I recently saw
a list price for it in the neighborhood of $495.  Not "chump change."

Dean Cashen
-- Boise

--------<disclaimer>----------
HP and I share some views, but
the ones above are all mine...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: crispy@space.mit.edu (Chris Pak)
Subject: Re: Where Can I Buy A Low Priced PowerBook 100?
Reply-To: crispy@space.mit.edu (Chris Pak)
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:23:55 GMT



In article <7+lma#d.rkaplan@netcom.com>, rkaplan@netcom.com (Richard Kaplan) writes:
> I have read that the PowerBook 100 is avilable for about $900
> in the 4/40 configuration with external floppy.  I would 
> like to buy one, but the only source I know of is Price Club;
> there is no Price Club near me, and they will not ship
> by mail order.
> 
> Does anyone know where else I can buy a PowerBook for <=
> $1000?
>  

I bought a powerbook 100 4/40 from Price Club for $899 and I think it's definitely worth the money.  I don't like the keyboard but ... 
 
I had talked to a manager who is in charge of the computer sales at Price Club headquarters and he said that Price Club bought out everything (all the pb100 4/40) from Apple.  If this is true, and I think it is true, you can only buy pb100 4/40 at this great price from Price Club. Price Club is located all over the USA. I have a list of all the price clubs in USA and if you want I can e-mail you some phone numbers.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
From: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams)
Subject: Re: Anyone seen a Gateway 2000 Handbook?
Keywords: handbook
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:06:36 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.215718.23325@news.Hawaii.Edu> todd@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
>
>The Gateway Handbook (which a Gateway rep says will not ship until August)
>is a doubtful candidate to run Windows 3.0 or 3.1 in my opinion.
>
>1. It has a C&T 286 clone CPU. I've seen Windows 3.0 and 3.1 run on
>   various old 10 & 12MHz 386 boxes. The words "slow" and "sluggish" do
>   not even begin to describe the feeling you get when trying to do
>   anything on such units. I understand that turning off TrueType display
>   to the CRT speeds things up a bit. But that seems to defeat the purpose
>   of a WYSIWYG environment to me.

The processor in the Handbook is NOT a 286 clone.  It is an 8086
(8088) clone.  It does NOT have protected mode.  The Gateway ads are
very misleading on this.  I mentioned this to the Gateway salesperson
I spoke to yesterday and he was quite defensive about their ads.
I've seen at least two reviews of this machine that have gotten that
wrong, so obviously, many people are being mislead by Gateway's claim
of "286-class performance".  The upshot of this is that Windows 3.0
would run on the handbook in Real mode only and Windows 3.1 wouldn't
run at all.

>2. The 20MB disk drive is just too small to run Windows applications

The ad in front of me lists the hard drive as 40MB.  That's still
pretty small.

>3. If Windows does not support the Handbook's double scan mode (640x400),
>   you would be stuck looking at a 620x200 B/W screen (no shades of gray
>   either). That would be pretty hard on the eyes.

I tried to find out when I called Gateway yesterday if the double scan
display emulates the 400 line AT&T/Olivetti adaptor, or in some other
way make all 400 lines available to graphic applications, but the
salesperson I spoke to didn't know.

>I think the Gateway 2000 Handbook is a pretty interesting looking
>sub-notebook. However, I don't think anyone would want to try to work with
>Windows 3.x on it for any length of time.
>On the other hand, it would probably be a good candidate to run something
>like Q&A 4.0 or some reasonble collection of DOS apps that could be
>squeezed onto a 20MB hard disk.

C&T is supposedly working on a real 286 version of their chip.  With
that chip and a 60 MB disk, the Handbook would be much nicer for
graphical applications such as Windows.  The current version ought to
run Geoworks, I suppose, but I'm not very familiar with that product.
If I got the current Handbook, I'd probably stick with character based
apps. 

>Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii, Psychology Department
>BITNET:		todd@uhunix
>INTERNET:	todd@uhunix.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU


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From: holderied@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: comp.sys.laptops
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:47:16 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

I have an AST Premium Exec 386/20 Notebook

Video is switched to the external monitor by pressing the Fn + D Keys.
Is there a keyboard-scan code for the Fn-key?

How can I switch to external video by software, so I can include it into
the autoexec.bat file?

Has anybody done this before?
                                   george

George Holderied, Inst. of physical chemistry, Uni Basel, Switzerland
E-Mail: see header, Fax +41 61 2673855
From: todd@crayola (Todd Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: memory upgrade for Tandon 386SX or PCBrand
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:47:33 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

If you've managed a successful upgrade beyond 4 meg. on an Tandon or PC  
Brand machine, I'd like to hear from you. (Where you got the chips, cost,  
etc.)

Thanks very much.

todd 415-926-6001
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: How do I access the upper memory area of a Toshiba Laptop?
Keywords: Toshiba Laptop Memory
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:43:58 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Jul30.063747.11546@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> tony@ctpm.uq.oz.au (Tony Jago) writes:
>I have a problem with a Toshiba T5200 with 5M of extended memory.
>Currently configured with TEST3 as all extended memory except 288K for
>shadow ROM as recommended in the Toshiba manual.
>The version of DOS is 5.0.
>The network is PCNFS 4.0
>It contains a Western Digital Ethernet Card
>   TP Ethernet 8013WC
>   I/O Address 240
>   IRQ 5
>   RAM size 16K
>   RAM Address C800
>   ROM size disabled
>   ROM Address D800
>   Connection 10BaseT
>
>I appear to be unable to access HMA with emm386.sys.
>An extract from the config.sys file is...
>   ...
>   device=himem.sys /m:1
>   device=emm386.sys noems
>   dos=high,umb
>   ...
>
>The two parameters of emm386 which give access to HMA  - noems and ram
>are both rejected by the machine.
>Dos loads high,  but I cannot see or access HMA to load other device drivers.
>Does anyone have any ideas?

Are you using =TOSHIBA= DOS 5.0?
All the memory drivers are tweaked by Toshiba for their hardware.

Have you tried excluding the ROM locations in your EMM command line?


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From: kron@ueshiba.Corp.Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Notebook to PC Connection Software
Date: 23 Jul 1992 18:13:26 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: kron@ueshiba.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: ueshiba.corp.sun.com

Laplink does a good job but you need a dedicated window on one of the machines you might be able
to multi task it under Desqview or Windows etc.

I think one of the PC-TOOLS utilities may do the same.


---
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From: sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com (Steven J. Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Has anyone tried the 386SX/486SLC swap?
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:04:56 GMT
Reply-To: sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com
Distribution: comp
Organization: Bull HN, Worldwide Information Systems, Billerica, Mass., USA

Cyrix has announced a "486 SLC" chip that it claims to be pin
compatible with certain 386 SX packages that are found in some 386 SX
based notebook machines.  The announced chip claims to have a 1 Kbyte
cache and somewhat faster instruction processing over the 386 SX.

I was wondering if any of you folks have tried replacing a notebook
386 SX with the new chip.  What were the results?

Things to watch for:

* Timing faults (BIOS may have built-in timing loops that run too
fast with the new chip)

* Power consumption problems (battery life degradation, excess heat)

* Unexpected difficulty with mechanical aspects of chip replacement

* Only works with certain external oscillator frequencies (I am
thinking about 16 MHz systems in particular)

* Incompatibility with 387 SX coprocessor operation

By the way, does anyone have the phone number for Cyrix?  They may
have more detailed information about this along with pricing and
ordering specifics.

 [The above opinions expressed are my own; not necessarily held by others.]
      == Steven J. Edwards           Bull HN Information Systems Inc. ==
      == (508) 294-3484              300 Concord Road         MS 820A ==
      == sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com     Billerica, MA 01821          USA ==
"That Government which Governs the Least, Governs Best." -- Thomas Jefferson
From: gjs@corsica.camb.inmet.com (George Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Notebook to PC Connection Software
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:30:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Intermetrics Inc.

In article <13654@mindlink.bc.ca> Jim_Sollows@mindlink.bc.ca (Jim Sollows) writes:
> I am looking for some software that will allow me to access files on
> the hard drive of my notebook ...

Both Brooklyn Bridge (from Fifth Generation Systems) and LapLink have
this capability.  The general idea is to install a device driver on your
PC (the master), and run a "slave" program on the laptop.  The laptop's
drives become available on the PC as additional drive letters (D:, E:,
etc.).  Both programs include cables, and can connect through either
serial ports (up to 115 K baud) or parallel ports.  LapLink II supports
only serial, not parallel.

Brooklyn Bridge has the smaller device driver (7-9K); the driver in
LapLink II is about 49K.  LapLink has a snazzier slave program which
shows connect status, and flashes a message when the disk is being
accessed.  Brooklyn Bridge requires that the slave program be running
and the be cable connected before you boot the master (otherwise the
driver does not install).  LapLink II always installs the driver, and
you can connect the cable and start the slave program later.

I use Brooklyn Bridge through the parallel ports regularly, and find
that access time to the remote disk is slower than a local drive, but
much faster than a floppy.  On occasion I even execute programs across
the link (using the PC to run a program from the notebook's disk).  The
program uses overlay files from the disk, so execution is slow (but
usable).  The notebook has a 1 MB disk cache.

If your laptop is fast enough, you can run the slave program in a
DESQview or MS window, and multitask other programs on the laptop.
On my 286 notebook, this slows the PC's access to the remote disk.

Both products include a menu driven program that shows a directory
structure on a local drive and one on a remote drive, and do various
file operations between them, show file contents, etc.  Brooklyn Bridge
(LapLink too?) can show two local drives, or two remote drives.
Brooklyn Bridge can interpret some kinds of files, including 123 .wks
(displays an image of the spreadsheet) and .zip files (shows list of
contents), and some people use it as a "DOS shell".

Another program that has gotten good reviews is LanTastic Z, which
allows two PCs to access each other's drives across a serial or parallel
link.  I have never tried it.

-- George Snyder    Intermetrics, Inc.	    Internet:  gjs@inmet.com
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