Re: More fun with Palm Connect
Anthony J Stieber <starnet!apple!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!anthony>
From: Anthony J Stieber <starnet!apple!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!anthony>
Message-id: <9311301910.AA27476@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: More fun with Palm Connect
To: zoomer-list-1993@grot.starconn.com
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:10:15 -0600 (CST)
In-reply-to: <1273@dataman.demon.co.uk> from "Nigel Ballard" at Nov 30, 93 04:11:00 am
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-> From: Nigel@dataman.demon.co.uk (Nigel Ballard)
-> I've installed a dual channel PCMCIA reader/writer in my PC, and
-> although I can move apps back and forth with PalmConnect, it's even
-> quicker with a card slot in the PC. Out of interest, the software
Which one do you have? I've got the Pamco parallel port drive and also
find it a very quick and easy way to move data to and from PCMCIA
cards.
-> drivers with the reader/writer love Zoomer files and read/write them
-> without a hitch. But try the same thing on a Newton and it's error
-> reading drive D:
I tried it with the bundled MessagePad ROM card and got a single file
called NOFORMAT which I think was the contents of that card. I
couldn't find or do much of interest though, it was probably compressed
and/or encrypted. Of course the MessagePad didn't work with any of the
PCMCIA cards I've got laying around.
-> The Newton MessagePad has a genuine PCMCIA Jeida-4 slot....NOT!
Apple doesn't need to slavishly attend to standards, they have millions
of users who slavishly attend to Apple.
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