Re: [Poqetpc] Any Poqet PCs for Sale?

["Bryant Wetzel" <ardvarrk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sven,

   I was reading, in my crawl around the Poqet web, that both units had 
PCMCIA slots, but that the implementation might be a little off in the Pad 
as the slots had not quite been standardized when they were built.

   From a practical standpoint PoqetPad's only make sense if you can edit 
and develop applications on a more accessable desktop.  My guess is that any 
application in use on a PoqetPad would have to be a check box type app.
   But, the two new ones I bought on e-bay, at a way cheap price, are just 
too cute to let lay around. A modern PDA running Windows is more practical 
and more powerful, but not near as rugged. "Mondo" is a word that comes to 
mind for the PoqetPad. If I could just get a modern PDA with this screen 
size.
   Sorry for running on. The deal is that the PoqetPad book says that you 
have to run three programs from config.sys for the system to recognize 
PCMCIA cards.  PQSS, PQCCU and PQCARD. These can be run from config.sys or 
autoexec.bat in the Plus series. According to the files I am reading now. It 
also says that all three files need to be inserted in the file prior to 
execution of PQAUTO. PQAUTO searches all the drives looking for a valid 
autoexec.bat file. (Hmmmm.)
   And if there is an autoexec.bat on that drive then the card drivers have 
to be loaded prior through config.sys. Hmmmm. So, it seems that every drive 
is a boot drive.
   I might have answered my own question.
   I will format a 512MB type III card with dos five. and SYS it. Then I 
will copy the files that are on the PoqetPad, (downloaded from the net to my 
desktop), to the 512 drive. and try to boot from that. If that works then I 
will continue to work on the data base checklist that I had envisioned for 
this little thing when I bought it. If not then it is on to more recent pads 
that already run well, like the Fujitsu Stylistic ST1000.

Bryant




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sven Utcke" <utcke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "The PoqetPC / PoqetPC Plus Mailing-List" 
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Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Poqetpc] Any Poqet PCs for Sale?


> Hello Terry,
>
> > I don't know about the PoqetPad, but the Poqet PC won't see anything
> > larger than 2Mb (4Mb for the PoqetPlus), and it won't see a CF card
> > at all.
>
> Nope, that's definitely wrong (for the plus), I routinely use a 32MB
> CF-card in the PoqetPC Plus.  My guess for a limit would be 512MB...
>
> However, (as previously stated) I was never able to get the Poqetpad
> to read any of my CF-cards, either because card and socket services
> were missing (and I either didn't try the drivers from the poqet plus,
> or the drivers didn't work with the poqetpad), or maybe because there
> really is such a limit on size for the poqetpad --- however, in my
> understanding this only applies to SRAM cards...
>
> Sven
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