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: <9312011800.AA22918@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: More fun with Palm Connect
To: zoomer-list-1993@grot.starconn.com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 12:00:01 -0600 (CST)
In-reply-to: <1145@dataman.demon.co.uk> from "Nigel Ballard" at Nov 30, 93 04:20:00 pm
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-> From: Nigel@dataman.demon.co.uk (Nigel Ballard)
-> 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
What type is the CARRY Co. drive? Do you have contact information?
I'd like to add it to the pcmcia.devices list (recently posted to
alt.periphs.pcmcia,comp.sys.laptops, and comp.sys.palmtops).
-> 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
The Getting Started card I saw seemed to be mask ROM, there was no
write protect switch so I didn't expect it to be eraseable at all. I
think that when the Pamco driver can't understand the card contents it
just makes the entire card address space look like a single MS-DOS file
called NOFORMAT. The NOFORMAT file was 256KB, which may or may not be
the size of the Getting Started card.
It just occured to me that the Getting Started card probably had
Unicode rather than ASCII. I'll have to take a look at it again.
-> Newton, and it wouldn't roll with any of them.
I think that the MessagePad needs cards with attribute memory in order
to work properly, and perhaps some other things as well. Sometimes
cards will work for soup storage, but then fail for backup storage.
Next time I get a hold of a MessagePad I'm going to try some EXP and
ACE 2MB SRAM cards.
-> The PCMCIA cards I've had most success with are Mitsubishi MelCards in
Do you have contact information for Mitsubishi?
-> 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
I suspect they put in only 640KB even though that sounds like MS-DOS
thing because another 384KB would have pushed the price over USD1000
and only 512KB would be even more useless than 640KB. I wonder when
Apple is going to break the 640KB barrier :-).
-> Out of interest, did you have a Microsoft Flash File System-2 driver
-> loaded?
I don't think the Pamco drive supports flash memory at all. I don't
have any flash memory cards to try out on it. Does anyone bother with
MS-FFS on ROM cards anyway? MS-FFS seems to be rather pointless on
read only devices.
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