Re: I'm New

["Lawrence Walker" <lgwalker@xxxxxxx>]

 I recently acquired the PC-3000 manual on E-Pay. While it answered some 
of my questions, I'm still hopelessly at sea regarding the confusing subject of
PCMCIA/SDRAM/Flash cards.
 If I can be of help in looking up specific topics feel free to contact me.

 I ,also, am unable to access the UK FAQ site. I get an "unauthorized" error 
message. Possibly you could contact the site's owner SVEN to see what 
the problem is.

 I found the site of  LEAD DATA who makes the Compact Flash card which 
Glenn Sneddon posted he had managed to get a 32MB card working. It is

http://www.leaddata.com.tw/

 They have these cards at up to 256 MB and at reasonable prices. Any 
chance that one of these that size might work in a 3K ?

 Unfortunately I have still been unable to find a Laplink or serial cable. Anyone
know a source ? I might have to do the serial modification if not.

 There's a small rectangular springed button on the rear edge just above the 
battery compartment of my PC-3000. There's no mention of it in the manual. 
Does anyone know its purpose ? The only clue I have is that my Internal 
battery doesn't appear to be functioning.

Lawrence

> > I was given a PC-3100 as my 12th birthday present. The person who
> > gave it to me hadn't used it in years and didn't seem to know much
> > about it.
> 
> Oh dear.  Well, it might be easiest if you could dig out someone in
> your family who still remembers the old days of DOS --- or maybe get
> an old book out of your local library, or from a garage sale...
> 
> > I have no manual. 
> 
> Parts of a German manual and a complete dutch manual (from memory, or
> was it something else?) are available from my website --- probably not
> much help to you though :-)
> 
> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~utcke/Laptop/sharp-pc3100.html
> 
> > I do have a laplink cord 
> 
> Good!
> 
> > and 2 PCMCIA type 1 (I think) cards.  
> 
> If they are about 3mm thick they are type I, otherwise they are type
> II (which can be inserted, but are hard to extract, and might possibly
> damage your Sharp, although so far they haven't damaged mine).
> 
> > According to the previous owner they game with the laptop. They are
> > completly unmarked.
> 
> Not even a manufacturers name, or any other label?  Your best bet
> would be to get someone with a Linux-Laptop and have him insert the
> cards.  The computer will then tell you (in the /var/log/messages or
> /var/log/syslog file) what the cards are...
> 
> > When I try to format them by typing 'format a:"(or format b:) I get
> > an error message saying 'Drive Not ready" What is happening?
> 
> Well, tis should work _if_ the cards are sram-cards and you didn't
> write-protect them.  If they are sram than they probably do have a
> battery of their own (some, few, cards came with a rechargable
> battery).  Check the battery, if they got one, and perhaps replace it.
> 
> If they don't have a batery, they _might_ be flash --- have a look at
> my site.  In that case you will need special drivers and special
> programms sdisk and sformat.
> 
> Or they might be something completely else...
> 
> > I can't acccess the FTPftp://hawk.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sharp-pc3k/ 
> 
> Hmm, ftp://hawk.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sharp-pc3k/ works fine for me...
> 
> > I should be able to get laplink working
> 
> You'll probably need
> ftp://hawk.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sharp-pc3k/laplink.zip, at least to
> communicate with any PC manufactured during the last 5 years or so...
> 
> Hope this helps some
> 
> Sven
> -- 
>       IBM Thinkpad 701C, 80486 DX4/75, 40MB RAM, 3.2GB HDD, Linux 2.0.36


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