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Re: [Poqetpc] Re: PoqetPad PCMCIA cards
Hello Gary,
> > PQSS.EXE ! PCMCIA Socket Services
> > PQCCU.EXE ! PCMCIA PP+/PC+ Card Configuration Utility
> > PQCARD.EXE ! PP+/PC+ PCMCIA Card Driver V1.18
>
> On the PoqetPad I got from the previously mentioned eBay seller, these
> are automatically loaded from the D: drive by the included CONFIG.SYS.
So they are on mine, as I now noticed. In fact config.sys loads:
FILES=30
BUFFERS=30
STACKS=9,256
DEVICE=C:\OS$CLOCK.SYS
REM DEVICE=D:\RAMDISK.SYS 32
DEVICE=D:\PQSS.EXE
DEVICE=D:\PQCCU.EXE
INSTALL=D:\PQCARD.COM
And the C&SS drivers are:
pqss.exe 5402 07-22-93 3:38p Version 1.6
pqccu.exe 5168 10-20-93 3:10p Version 1.0 Level 6.9
pqcard.com 5514 10-27-93 3:01p Version 1.17
And here there is a difference to my PoqetPlus, which loads:
pqss.exe 5402 07-22-93 3:38p Version 1.6
pqccu.exe 5648 03-24-94 6:28p Version 1.0 Level 7.2 !!!
pqcard.com 6778 01-15-94 10:00p Version 1.18 !!!
So I guess it might be well worth to try the newer pqccu and pqcard on
the PoqetPad (I can send you the files, or you can wait for me to do
this, or maybe you can find them lying around somewhere on the WWW :-)
> > I have some newer CompacFlash cards in a PCMCIA holder card. I
> > also have some 512MB Type III hard drive cards and some newer
> > microdrives in PCMCIA adapters. None seem to work.
>
> I tried several CF cards in a SanDisk adapter, no luck.
Same her, but maybe with the newer driver, which works in the
PoqetPlus?
> > 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.
>
> That's my conclusion, except I haven't been able to get a
> user-written app to "see" the touchscreen as a mouse. Wish I had
> some of the docs they /must/ have provided to those writing custom
> software for the Poqets.
Hmm. I distinctly remember loading the Volkow Commander (a Norton
Commander clone) on the PoqetPad and using it with the Mouse, so
surely this works in principle. My default autoexec.bat loads
keymouse.com (12365Bytes, 10-20-93 11:42a), does yours?
As for developing applications, I once bought a copy of PenRight
Version 3.5.1 (for application development), which on the box lists
the PoqetPad and PoqetPad Plus (as well as 13 other supported
computers). I never got around to using it, but still hope I will one
day (so no, it's not up for sale).
> > But, the two new ones I bought on e-bay, at a way cheap price, are
> > just too cute to let lay around. ...
>
> Yeah, "way cheap", except you need at least a DC adapter/charger at
> $40-50,
I'm sure one for US$ 9.95 ought to work just as well, except that the
connector is somewhat difficult to get outside Japan...
> and some sort of FLASH or SRAM card to load the programs, unless you
> have the "other end" of the PQConnect program that's on the Poqet.
> (Does anyone?)
Well, I do not have a serial connector, so I never tried, but many of
theses programs were able to install themselves on the other computer
(but usually don't work with computers above approx. 100MHz, so don't
get too excited :-). Or you could use zip (not the file-archiver, but
predating it) by Eric Meyer, which can also be installed by Serial
connection and is reportedly _very_ fast, see
http://home.att.net/~short.stop/vde/vde.htm#zipcom
> And they only have 640KB RAM, as far as I can tell, instead of the
> standard 2MB,
Hmm, presumably some of that goes to C: or D: (are these writable?),
or can be used by enabling the ramdisk or somesuch. Certainly the
80186 compatible CPU can only use 640K as RAM, so the reminder must be
for a ramdisk...
> so you'll probably also want one of those "rare, expensive" SRAM
> cards.
You probably do, if only to transfer the newer drivers from the Plus
(should that work).
> I've put about $100 into this one and it's barely useable at this point --
> only runs small, text-only apps that aren't full-screen, so that the virtual
> keyboard is useable.
You noticed that you can drag the keyboard around?
> Almost anything with graphics is out, 'cause you can't type anything
> with the graphics up
Hmm. Never tried this, but this might be conceivably so...
> and the touchscreen isn't recognized as a mouse.
Well, I think I remember mine was (in text-mode, that is!)
> Also, the touchscreen won't stay in calibration, so every few hours
> you have to completely reset the computer to recal the screen,
Never done that (in fact, don't even know how to do it), so maybe
you're just unlucky with your screen.
> which loses all the customizations you've done. I /think/ I will be
> able to rewrite the AUTOEXEC to do some of the re-customizing.
But presumably that would be lost too, wouldn't it, unless it is on an
SRAM card?
> > >> 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.
>
> Well, the /good/ news is that after trying all the CF, SRAM, and
> Linear Flash cards (which I'd read were needed) I could lay my hands
> on, none of which worked, I more-or-less accidentally discovered
> that the "SanDisk 175MB FLASHDISK PCMCIA PC CARD ATA" which I'd just
> purchased on eBay for a different device seems to work fine.
Now _that_ is way cool!
> On the back is "NCR Part #P006-8601905/19 767877D", as nearly as I
> can tell -- it's pretty blurry. It's also barcoded, but I've no way
> to read that. There's also "SDP5(or S?)BX-175-364", but I don't
> know what that is
SPD5 was their old range of PCMCIA Flash Cards --- although I thought
they never made ones bigger than 10 or 20MB. The SPD5A-Size cards
are known to work in the Sharp PC3100, presumably a SPD5BX is a newer
(and bigger) version, but still close enough to the Original PCMCIA
standards to work in the PoqetPad. I believe the 5 stands for 5V (as
opposed to 5V and 3.3V dual voltage and modern 3.3V only cards).
> -- maybe a SanDisk stock # or something like that.
Model-number.
> Meanwhile, if anybody has any of the development info or
> (presumably, PC) software, I'm very interested in hearing about it.
See above, I got my copy from ebay, but was looking for it for at
least a few weeks...
> Has anybody on the list successfully built a custom serial or
> keyboard interface?
I would be very much interested in that too!
Hope this helps
Sven
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