Mailing lists
The pen-geos mailing list was established in April 1996 for
discussion of pen-GEOS-based products, accessories, software, uses, etc.
These include Casio/Tandy/AST "Zoomer" products, Sharp PT-9000 "Bullet"
products, Hewlett-Packard OmniGo 100 products (but see also the
OGO mailing list), Hyundai Gulliver products, and
anything else that runs GEOS with a pen interface.
Digests of pen-geos
mail archives are maintained and can be accessed via
ftp,
and individual articles are available in a
hypermail archive
on this WWW site and they are searchable.
To subscribe to pen-geos, send mail to
majordomo@lists.grot.com
with the following command in the message body:
subscribe pen-geos
If you'd prefer to receive digests of pen-geos mail, use:
subscribe pen-geos-digest
instead. If you don't receive a welcome message from the mailing list
server in a reasonable amount of time, send a message to
owner-pen-geos@lists.grot.com and ask for help.
OGO is a mailing list that was started in 1996 for OmniGo discussions.
A hypermail archive is available
on this WWW site and it is searchable.
To subscribe to ogo, send mail to
majordomo@lifelike.com
with the following comamnd in the message body:
subscribe ogo
The zoomer-list mailing list was established in September 1993 for
discussion of Zoomer products, accessories, software, uses, etc.
The list was closed at the end of March 1996, and was replaced by the
pen-geos mailing list.
Digests of zoomer-list
mail archives are maintained and can be accessed via
ftp,
and individual articles are available in a
hypermail archive
on this WWW site and they are searchable.
GEOS-Dev is a mailing list that was started in 1996 for discussion of GEOS
development.
A hypermail archive is available
on this WWW site and it is searchable.
To subscribe to geos-dev, send mail to
majordomo@lifelike.com
with the following comamnd in the message body:
subscribe geos-dev
There are a number of Zoomer-related WWW sites besides
this one:
- Geoworks has a very nice
WWW site, providing information
about the company and its products as well as pointers to their partner
companies and other Geoworks-oriented resources on the Internet.
- The University of Washington FTP site for Zoomer-oriented stuff (see
below) is also accessible as a
WWW site.
Along with access to the FTP archives, it provides pointers to other
sites.
- James Bearden's new GEOS Information site.
- Jeff Lee's Zoomer
programming information site.
- Chris DeHerrera's pen-based
computers site.
- Nathan Fiedler's GEOS-based
Device site.
Note: many FTP sites limit the number of concurrent anonymous logins.
WWW hyperlinks to FTP sites use anonymous login.
If you get an error message when you try to access one of these FTP links,
it may be the result of too many anonymous logins on the FTP server.
Try again later, or try accessing it using an FTP program so that you
can view the FTP server message instead of the unhelpful WWW error message.
- The best FTP site for Zoomer-oriented materials is hosted by the
University of
Washington.
- There are also Geoworks-oriented ftp areas, such as
the GEOS 2.X area on Simtel
and it's mirror sites like
wuarchive.wustl.edu). These may have
some Zoomer-compatible programs or other files.
- See also Shag's old ftp site
for GEOS items.
- Palm Computing has created an
ftp directory
from which you can get all
of Palm's technical notes for PalmConnect, Palm applications, and the
Casio/Tandy/AST PDA, the Palm information Notebooks, and information files
about Palm Computing.
- Since Palm's ftp site is often overloaded, you might
instead try accessing the
hypertext version
of their technical notes on this WWW site.
- Lastly, the digests of the ftp site that
is associated with this WWW site. The hypermail
archives are friendlier that the ftp archives, and they're
searchable, too, but sometimes its
nice to retrieve e-mail messages in their original form rather than
in HTML.
There are many dial-up bulletin board systems that feature GEOS-oriented
files. One of them was kind enough to send me their information:
- The CyberPort
Phone: +1 408 227 1635
Speed: 14.4K
"Over 1,100 GEOS files", many Zoomer files
At present, there are no Zoomer-specific newsgroups. Some Zoomer-oriented
discussions can be found (or created) in the following newsgroups. Note:
this will only work if your WWW browser is configured to use an NNTP server
to which you have access.
America Online is the "official" support mechanism for Zoomer PDAs.
One of the built-in applications is an America Online client program,
and with the addition of a modem and an America Onine account, you can
access a subset of America Online's resources (e-mail, basic news,
and product support from Casio, Tandy, and Palm).
The built-in client only supports modem speeds up to 2400 baud.
Using a PC or Macintosh, you can also access the full range of
information resources on America Online, and at higher baud rates,
using the same AOL account.
Using an
alternative add-on AOL interface,
you can access all of America Online's services and can use 9600 baud external
modems.
Contact America Online
to order PC or Macintosh client software.
A client program for accessing the Compuserve Information Service is also
available for Zoomers, although it isn't built into the Zoomer ROM.
Contact Compuserve to
establish an account and then download the Zoomer client software.
Though not entirely related to the Zoomer, these resources may be of
interest:
- PC/GEOS Frequently Asked Questions
- Pen Computing Magazine,
the WWW site for a magazine about pen computing.
- mobilis,
an informative electronic magazine about mobile computing.
- PDA Universe has a growing
collection of information about all popular PDA's.
- TSC Enterprises, which
contains (among other things)
results of a PDA survey, some PDA statistics, and pointers to
other PDA resources.
- Nigel Ballard's PatchNET
is "a virtual fluffy quilt of mobile computing resources". Click around on
it. You may end up back here!
- Finally, there's always
Yahoo's collection
of links to information about PDAs in general. That should cover everything
that I forgot!
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If you know of other resources which are relevant to Zoomer owners or
prospective owners, please forward them to me at:
brian@grot.com 10/1/96
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