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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: A few Psion 3 questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.203145.29239@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:31:45 GMT
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- Well, on my last day on a vacation in London, I stumbled across a shop
- selling the Psion 3 for &214 sterling (or should that be #214), which
- comes out to about $275 after the VAT refund, etc. Anyway, I couldn't
- resist taking the plunge. So I picked it up along with the mac link, a
- few memory cards, etc.
-
- Now that I have it (and hardly having had time to turn it on let alone
- read the manual), a few obligatory questions if I might...
-
- a) From skimming the booklet that came with the mac link, the COMMS utility
- supports no emulation. Do most people make due with that? Or is there
- another more popular net program for such things? How does one ordinarily
- deal with the screen size issue?
-
- b) Has anyone tried the Psion 3 with a Mobidem? (who makes those things
- anyway and how much are they?)
-
- c) Anyone written Tetris yet?
-
- d) In connecting to an external modem, what sort of cable is needed?
- Obviously the Din-8 <-> Din-8 they send just connects straight across,
- so I presume that in order to connect from the Link to a modem I would
- need to acquire a null-modem cable between Din8 and whatever the modem
- is. Am I correct? Or have I reversed something somewhere?
-
- Anyway, I guess I'll go and read the manual now... :-)
-
-
- --
- Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings
- gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of
- N2GPZ in ham radio circles communication. The device is inherently of
- 72355,1226 on CI$ no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877
-