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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: HP 95LX
- Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:23:45 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <mjohnson-171192100320@129.197.97.63> mjohnson@force.decnet.lockheed.com (Mark E. Johnson) writes:
- >Is anyone familiar with the HP 95LX, a DOS palmtop?
-
- Sure, lots of 95 owners read and post to comp.sys.palmtops. I'm
- crossposting and setting followups to there.
-
- >My wife won one in a drawing, and we're figuring out what to do with it. HP
- >sells a "Connectivity Pack" that allows communication (i.e., file
- >transfers) with a desktop PCs. The best price we found was $90. It looks to
- >me like it might only be a 9-to-25 pin null modem cable and software to do
-
- The transfer software is DCS95 which is a fairly nice (so I've heard)
- serial port drive networking package. It also comes with APP95 which
- are all the HP applications (except 123) for ordinary MS-DOS machines.
-
- >the transfer. If that's true, we can buy the cable alone for $6, and I
-
- Where can you get the cable for $6? The cheapest I've seen is about
- $24, or $12 for a cable with bare wires at the other end at EduCALC.
-
- >wonder if there is some way to use an existing program on my PC. I think
- >some shareware comm programs support null modem connections, but only if
- >both computers run the software. Is there a way to do it just from the PC
- >side?
-
- It would be difficult for any communications software to NOT support
- null modem connections. Speeds over 19.2Kbps are less common however.
- I currently use just plain MS-Kermit on my laptop, and the built in
- Kermit in the 95. At some point I may use something faster like zip.
- You could probably use any software you want that supports either
- kermit or xmodem protocols as both are built into the 95.
-
- >The palmtop also has a PCMIA (I forgot a letter somewhere) port, which we
- >are thinking of using for an additional memory card. Are these ports
- >standard? That is, would we be able to buy any PCMIA memory card, or would
- >it have to be the one sold by HP?
-
- PCMCIA 1.0, which the 95 has, is fairly well standardized. Any SRAM
- card up to 2MB should work on the 95. Note that HP writes in the
- manual that non-HP cards may cause greater battery drain.
- Flash EPROM cards can be read but not written or erased in the 95.
- There have been several postings on sources of PCMCIA cards in
- comp.sys.palmtops. They are available via anonymous ftp to
- csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop/pcmcia.news. You can also get postings
- on various other palmtop topics in the same directory.
-
- >Thanks!
- You're welcome
-
- >P.S. Is there a FAQ list for this sort of thing?
-
- Yes, you can get it via anonymous ftp to eddie.mit.edu:/distrib/hp95lx.
- If you can't FTP I can mail or post it.
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