Re: Casio Zoomer review, part 1 (the package)

brian@piano.grot.starconn.com (Brian Smithson)
From: brian@piano.grot.starconn.com (Brian Smithson)
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 13:33:50 -0700
In-Reply-To: starnet!apple!cats.ucsc.edu!aaronw (Aaron M. Williams)
        "Re: Casio Zoomer review, part 1 (the package)" (Oct 12, 12:16pm)
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Subject: Re: Casio Zoomer review, part 1 (the package)
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On Oct 12, 12:16pm, Aaron M. Williams wrote:
> Subject: Re: Casio Zoomer review, part 1 (the package)
> 
> I can't believe how much they want for the serial cable???  I worked on it.
> $60 is rather steep for a little cable.

You don't happen to have a pin-out and/or a source for that tiny little 10-pin
connector, do you?  And are there any electronics in the cable (a la Casio
BOSS's PC link)?

> Also, $50 for an AC adapter is rather
> steep as well.  I think it'd be much cheaper to buy a 3rd party AC adapter.
> (I forget the voltage.  It's either 6 or 9 volts.)

It may be a little trickier than that.   It says on the back of the unit
"DC4.5V, 3V = 2 SUPPLY 0.57W" (the "=" is really a solid line over a dashed
line, indicating DC I suppose).  That sounds like a dual voltage adaptor,
and yet the connector is a standard coaxial thing.  Strange.  I'd love to
know what the heck they're talking about.

> The cover should fold down flat along the bottom of the unit.
> Since I was doing software development and constantly resetting Zoomer,
> I took off the cover (not too difficult).

Are you talking about the battery compartment cover?  I had meant that the
screen cover doesn't fold flush with the bottom of the unit.  Instead, it
comes to rest at a slight angle, which provides a little incline to the
top of the screen if you set it on a desktop.  That's why I thought it might
be a feature :-).

> Oh, the reset button is inside the battery compartment.  You'll need a handy
> paperclip to reset Zoomer.

Yes, I should have mentioned that.  It's a hard reset, though, nuking anything
stored in RAM (files, preferences, etc.).

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-Brian Smithson
 brian@grot.starconn.com