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- Path: sparky!uunet!uscghq!lederman
- From: lederman@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: Information on NEC UltraLight 1702
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.084844.97@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 08:48:44 EST
- References: <1992Nov6.173839.90@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil>
- Organization: United States Coast Guard
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- Well, I'm a bit dissapointed with the lack of response here.
- However, since someone else might have or get one of these
- machines, I'll post what I've found out.
-
- I talked to NEC. The card interface was designed before there
- were any standards, and when they did come up with PCMCIA the
- committee decided not to go with the NEC design (I have no idea
- what the reasons were). The NEC has a 64 pin connector, and
- PCMCIA is 68 pins, so retro-fitting would probably be difficult.
- They apparently have never published the interface. I suppose it
- must be documented somewhere in their repair manuals, but I don't
- know if there is any way to get one.
-
- On their advice, I called DAK (the surplus / discount /
- discontinued / whatever merchandiser in Los Angeles). They have
- the remaining application cards. They aren't cheap: they run
- from $99 for MS WORKS (maybe not that bad a deal) up to $399 for
- Word Perfect.
-
- I bought it mostly for use as a portable terminal, so I'm
- going to stick to Kermit and TED.
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-