Digest Articles Serial Cable? by Charlotte Lee From: Charlotte Lee Subject: Serial Cable? Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:48:38 -0700 Hello All! You can add me to the list of people whose calls weren't returned by Sparky Solutions. I called them twice and received no call back. Anyone out there have a serial cable for sale? California Digital ran out of them a while back and I could really use one! A used one in working condition would be fine. Charlotte cplee@xxxxxxxx great story from Zarcone by Anna Blade <76516.544@xxxxxxxx> From: Anna Blade <76516.544@xxxxxxxx> Subject: great story from Zarcone Date: 26 Oct 96 01:05:54 EDT to: >internet: PoqetPC@xxxxxxxx Robert Zarcone told the most entertaining story I've seen about buying a computer. ...I was ready to make my move and entered the store, checkbook in hand. Pandemonium was ensuing. Apparently the owner had just that morning decided he had had enough of the major stores undercutting him and he was literally piling up computer equipment in the middle of the showroom floor and slapping on random price tags as his soon to be fired salespeople watched on in horror.... It was also very interesting to hear that he used the external 20 meg hard drive to transfer files, and LetterPerfect to write on the Poqet. There are a couple of ways to use modems to get around using the VNA/ PQLink method of file transfer. One is to email the files to yourself. The other is to connect the modems of the two computers with phone cable, then issue command ATA from one computer (comm program) and ATXD from the other. For reasons I don't understand, this doesn't always work the first try. The least aggravating way is email. On the other hand, if you are copying programs files to the Poqet, the fastest way I have available is VNA/ PQLink. Some of the others in this group have PCMCIA ports in their other computer that will read and write the type 1, release 1 cards used in the Poqet. That would certaining be the way to go if you have it. Thanks again for a wonderful story. Anna RE: New user by Gary A McConnell From: Gary A McConnell Subject: RE: New user Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:08:37 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Bryan In your reply you mentioned that you are using a Backpack floppy disk drive with the Poqet PC's parallel cable. In connection with Robert Zarcone's mail concerning hard disks, would it not be possible to add a ZIP Drive to the Poqet through the parallel cable. Unfortunately I have neither the parallel cable or a ZIP drive to carry out any tests. Thanks to all the people for writing to me concerning my query on getting larger text on the Poqet's screen. I have tried a number of solutions, but at present I am still working with the standard Write utility. Anyone know where I can get Letterperfect from? Best Regards Gary A McConnell MOIF, DG Managing Director, 3DLIB Deputy Govenor of A.B.I.R.A. email: g-3dlib@xxxxxxxx url: http://www.monet.no/3dlib Re: Zip on Poqet by Psycho Bob From: Psycho Bob Subject: Re: Zip on Poqet Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:31:14 -0500 (CDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >In connection with Robert Zarcone's mail concerning hard disks, would it not >be possible to add a ZIP Drive to the Poqet through the parallel cable. In this case, no. It's not that you *cannot* use Zip with Poqet PC, but rather how Iomega writes the device driver. It seems that for sometime, Iomega only writes stuff that only works with machine that's at least 386 -- or that's what I think. I've seen people trying out Zip on PC/XT and to this date, none succeeded. I've tried Iomega's Floptical parallel, and couldn't get it work on the Amstrad PC/XT -- although it works on the 386 (donno about 286 -- I didn't try that one). However, if you're "programmingly enhanced," you can go ahead and try to write a device driver that will work with PC/XT-Poqet PC. ------------- clip here with virtual scissors -------------- ******************************************************************* Send any interesting roadkills to honge@xxxxxxxx! Keyboard stuck error. Press F1 to continue. Fax (402) 593-8975 Just say "Your lights are on" to DRLs. ******************************************************************* RE: New user by Aaron Wallace From: Aaron Wallace Subject: RE: New user Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 11:46:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:08 PM 10/26/96 +0200, you wrote: >In connection with Robert Zarcone's mail concerning hard disks, would it not >be possible to add a ZIP Drive to the Poqet through the parallel cable. I might be wrong, but I believe the parallel ZipTools require a 386 or better. However, you *might* be able to get around this by using the T348 parallel to SCSI adapter--whose drivers (the last time I checked) would work on an 8088--and the SCSI Zip drive. The problem is Iomega uses a nonstandard SCSI connector on the SCSI Zip drive, so you'll need a set of adapters to get it all working... +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Aaron Wallace The Internet Factory, Inc. | | aaron@xxxxxxxx http://www.ifact.com | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Card-reader by john s mercer From: john s mercer Subject: Card-reader Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:03:47 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To Brian, or anyone on the list: I am a new owner of a Poqet and would like to find what you think is the best way to communicate to my desktop machine. Probably the best would be a floppy drive, but that also turns out to be expensive. How about card-readers (I've forgotten what you called them in the FAQ). A company named EduCalc seems to have some of these at less than $200. I have your FAQ, so understand the voltage variances and needs. What is your experience with desk-top card readers/writers? john mercer jmercer@xxxxxxxx RE: Card-reader by Steven W. Decato From: "Steven W. Decato" Subject: RE: Card-reader Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:19:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a card reader that has two slots that I will sell for $100. It = reads and writes to the Poqet cards. It is made by DFI. It comes with = DOS/Windows drivers and documentation. Steve swdecato@xxxxxxxx Re: Card-reader by Bryan Mason From: "Bryan Mason" Subject: Re: Card-reader Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:42:00 +8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT My personal favorite way to share data between my Poqet and my desktop is via SRAM cards and a desktop reader. You avoid having two copies of the files (which happens when you use PoqetLink), and you also avoid the slowness of floppy disks. As I said, I prefer the DataBook ThinCardDrive (TMB-250) because it's compatible with Windows '95 and will also access PCMCIA 2.0 cards (like the SanDisk card I use with my HP-100LX). However, if you're only doing data sharing with your Poqet PC, one of the less expensive PCMCIA adapters, that don't do SanDisk Flash or modem cards, should work fine. -- Bryan On 26 Oct 96 at 17:03, john s mercer wrote: > To Bryan, or anyone on the list: > > I am a new owner of a Poqet and would like > to find what you think is the > best way to communicate to my desktop machine. Probably the best would be > a floppy drive, but that also turns out to be expensive. How about > card-readers (I've forgotten what you called them in the FAQ). A company > named EduCalc seems to have some of these at less than $200. I have > your FAQ, so understand the voltage variances and needs. What is your > experience with desk-top card readers/writers? > > john mercer > jmercer@xxxxxxxx > > > > > ~~~~ Bryan Mason - Menlo Park, California, USA, Earth e-mail: Poqet PC Home Page: Poqet PC Mailing List: