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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: 95LX Problems Galore
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- Date: 25 Aug 1992 17:46:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.203002.24859@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug24.203002.24859@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu> panizo@guadalupe.cs.tcu.edu (Maria Panizo) writes:
- >Since I'm considering buying a 1mb PCMIA card, would formatting a card as a
- >startup volume and CTRL-ALT-DEL with the card installed bring me back to life?
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- Almost...you'd need to format it, and then put an empty AUTOEXEC.BAT and
- CONFIG.SYS on it. Then a reboot gets you going again; the first thing I'd do
- is fix whichever of those two files on C: is corrupted. Also, make sure that
- the drive letters in C:\_DAT\APNAME.LST are upper case, as lower case has been
- known to cause trouble.
-
- >And I found the card locally (the real HP flavor) for $439 US. Is that near
- >what you guys would pay for one these days?
-
- I think that that's not too far above the going price for the HP card, but
- there are a few aftermarket cards that work just fine for less. Call EduCalc
- at (800) 677-8001. For about $20, they'll even ship next day FedEx.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Anything that an F-4 can outturn is not maneuverable." -- Mary Shafer
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