NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/palmtops/4003

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From: [e-mail] (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: PCMCIA mk.II on the 95LX
Date: 14 Dec 1992 23:32:55 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul B. Booth) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
>It's shipping now, and as of last week, anyway, they're backlogged for a week.
>It's called "PalmModem," and New Media wants $259 for it.  I'll let you know
>if it's worth it when mine arrives.  No serial cable or AC adapter...it _must_
>be worth it!

Hmm, when I talked to EduCALC a couple days ago they said there was
another setback and it wouldn't actually ship until January.  I hope it
has something like the "Xjack" on the just announced Megahertz PCMCIA
modems.  Instead of having a pigtail with the RJ-11 jack and data
access arrangement circuitry in a small pod, the DAA is internal and
the RJ-11 slides out from the side.  There's a possibility Megahertz
might make a special 95 version.

The PalmModem sounds pretty neat, the only problem is that only their
software will work with it.  I hope they have a decent terminal
emulator.  When I talked to them a few months ago they hadn't even
heard of SLIP but they had heard of UUCP.  There were no plans for an
Int 14 interface and were going to keep the card interface proprietary
and secret.
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