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Pc anywhere on a wearable

I use pcanywhere at work... It's a dog at 14.4 so I suspect 9600 would be
worse.... but if it was using win3.11 at both ends it might be faster (win95
puts alot of junk on the screen for it to send)

-----Original Message-----
From: James R. Hall <>
To: Tim Gray <>; Mark Willis <>;
 <>
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Gridpad as a wearable

>
>My GridPad came with a 60mb hdd, 8mb ram, internal modem (2400buad btw,
>1mb/hour! (tested)) but pretty much like the unit Mark Willis got info
>about.
>I was over at a friends house and he has a parralell cd-rom, soundcard, zip
>drive and an external-pocket sized 9600baud modem I might be able to
wrestle
>away from him :P(just the modem tho, if I could get a portable battery for
>my paralell zip drive I'll have me a 100mb upgrade :P) my friends uncle got
>a kit for a paralell port hdd kit (you provide the hdd up to 4.6gb) for his
>computer, now if they would just make a paralell port modem, 28.8k or
faster
>and I could get it I'd be all set :P
>BTW, has anyone played with pcanywhere? how fast is it over 9600baud serial
>connection?
>     -James, N9XLC
>     -
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Gray <>
>To: Mark Willis <>; 
><>
>Date: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 3:50 PM
>Subject: Re: Gridpad as a wearable
>
>
>>the gridpad has a 80 meg HD but you can get 2.5" ide drives for dirt cheap
>>at swaps... (I picked up a good one for 60 bucks for 512Meg)
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Willis <>
>>To:  <>
>>Date: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 5:24 AM
>>Subject: Re: Gridpad as a wearable
>>
>>
>>>I just heard from DataStation <> that they have
>>>GridPads in stock:  Anyone know of a better deal than this?  I might
>>>play with one of these for Robin, don't know (Anyone on the list in the
>>>Seattle area have one?)  I didn't ask how large the 2.5" IDE HD is.
>>>Under Linux, it could be >528 Mb easily enough...
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> They are in perfect condition. We have a few hundred left. $199ea.
>>Complete
>>>> with everything. 8meg ram, 2.5" ide HD, Floppy, keybaord, faxmodem
>>internal
>>>> pen, carrybag, batery, ac adapter, windows loaded, pcmcia slot,
>>>> serial,parallel,keyboard,mouse ports etc. 1year warranty.  add $10
>>shipping
>>>> Jim
>>>> Data Station Inc
>>>> 4115 N 6th St
>>>> Harrsibueg, PA 17110
>>>
>>>  Mark Willis, 
>>>
>>>Grant Stockly wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Please excuse me if this was already discuessed, but where can I get
>info
>>>> on a gridpad?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Grant
>>>>
>>>> >After tearing the gridpad apart I discovered the following......
>>>> >there is a co-processor socket, and the mainboard is 1/2 the width of
>>the
>>>> >unit except for where the PCMCIA slot resides and the ldc screen can
be
>>>> >easily unpluged from the video board. The modem, plugs into a wierd
>>>> >connector but may be an ISA slot (Time to fire up the scope) the hard
>>drive
>>>> >is an 2.5 inch IDE drive and will accept up to 520 meg drives (the
>>1.2gig
>>>> >from my Grid laptop will not format past 520~  must be a limitation of
>>the
>>>> >bios.) the screen and it's magnetic position sensing system is 3/4 of
>>the
>>>> >weight.  This little unit with an SL 387 coprocessor seems to run
>>quickly (I
>>>> >havent tried X yet) on an older linux kernel..  I am wary of trying
any
>>of
>>>> >the 2.0.x packages until they fix all the bugs (Red hat 5.0 is really
>>bad as
>>>> >far as buggy goes)
>>>> >
>>>> >here's a question for the hardware hackers out there.... this unit is
>>>> >advertized as a standard ISA mainboard... does this mean that the ISA
>>slot
>>>> >signals are at standard levels (I.E. if I bring a slot out on the
board
>>can
>>>> >I plug in a standard card and have it work? (I wouldn't do that but I
>>will
>>>> >use standard cards for sound and more serial ports (no brackets lying
>>flat
>>>> >in a sandwich with connections to meatspace via ribbon cables)  every
>>time I
>>>> >dig further into this unit I get more and more excited at it's
>>capabilities.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >-----Original Message-----
>>>> >From:  <>
>>>> >To: Barry Arons <>
>>>> >Cc:  <>;
>>>> > <>
>>>> >Date: Saturday, May 23, 1998 11:18 AM
>>>> >Subject: Re: Trouble getting Ampro coremodule to recognize RAM
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >>> I am trying to bring up a new 66 MHz Coremodule 4DXi, but am having
>>>> >trouble
>>>> >>> getting it to recognize a RAM expansion module (12 MB). The memory
>>was
>>>> >>> recognized once or twice, but when I screw the memory module down
it
>>no
>>>> >>> longer recognizes it. I've tried inserting the memory part way,
>>tilting
>>>> >it
>>>> >>> a little, etc., in an effort to get the RAM module to be
recognized,
>>but
>>>> >it
>>>> >>> is very flaky and usually does not see the extra RAM.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I have tried this with a second Coremodule and also with a second
12
>>MB
>>>> >>> memory card, and have done multi-way swaps with the same results...
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Any ideas??
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Barry Arons
>>>> >>> (Ex-Media Lab)
>>>> >>> AudioVelocity, Inc.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>have you tried the RAM expansion module in another computer (e.g.
>>>> >>a different brand of pc104 computer).
>>>> >>
>>>> >>it might be good to first isolate and verify the condition of the
>>>> >>expansion modules and then cross validate with the boards, or at
>>>> >>least isolate a potential compatibility problem with the particular
>>>> >>expansion module used and the requirements of the pc104 board.
>>>> >>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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