Re: More fun with Palm Connect
starnet!apple!dataman.demon.co.uk!Nigel (Nigel Ballard)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 21:26:18 GMT
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From: starnet!apple!dataman.demon.co.uk!Nigel (Nigel Ballard)
Reply-To: apple!dataman.demon.co.uk!Nigel
To: zoomer-list-1993@grot.starconn.com
Subject: Re: More fun with Palm Connect
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Evening Anthony
I've got two different types. The Parallel drive is still in the box,
and that's made by Adtron US. The one I'm currently using is made by
CARRY Co. in Taipei. The Adtron is a developers unit with power options
at 3/5/12volts enabling SRAM OTP & FLASH technologies to be used.
I tried to firstly read, and then to erase the GETTING STARTED card from
the Newton, it couldn't read it, and wouldn't erase it. Me thinks it's
more non-standard Apple ROM! I tried nine different cards on the
Newton, and it wouldn't roll with any of them.
The PCMCIA cards I've had most success with are Mitsubishi MelCards in
SRAM. I have one here tha'ts worked with my HP95lz, Amstrad PenPad,
Newton and now the preferred Zoomer.
> Apple doesn't need to slavishly attend to standards, they have millions
> of users who slavishly attend to Apple.
That's sarcasm right?<G>.
A PCMCIA expert at ******* told me Apple were so deparate to launch or
be damned over the Newton, that many corners were cut. They failed to
adhere to the PCMCIA-ATA specifications, and opted for the old Flash
File system. He further added they will have it sorted on V2 out in
january.
Out of interest, did you have a Microsoft Flash File System-2 driver
loaded?
Cheers Nigel
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