hej ho, Ole -
> I guess I'm exagerating. 20 hours is about half a day for me. <g>
Indeed.
> I have
> not really used the machine, just fooled around with it. I didn't think
> that it will "remember" for very long. I wonder how long it will keep
> things in the ramdisk? 20 hours is certainly enough actual working time
> but how long can you wait before you have to download it?
What draws current is not the RAM refresh (very low consumption) but
the use of the LCD screen. It keeps stored data in RAM for years with
just one battery set. But you have to turn the screen display OFF !!!
(You can set that to do it by itself - go into its BASIC and type
something like "power 5" to switch it off after 5 minutes of non-use/
non-typing.)
> All I have to do is get it set up for easy downloading to my main
> machine.
Any nullmodem cable - or a three-wire connection of pins 2, 3, and 7
of the RS232 will do, 2 and 3 being twisted - will do, and any comm
prog on the PC.
(There's a hitch in the build-in "telco" telcomm prog: it will only
transport strict ASCII, from ASC 32 to ASC 127 - thus none of the
8-bit chars you could quite well use in text writing. But it's really
easy to write a little com prog with the built-in BASIC, and this
given out whatever you have in a file; depending of the "language
version" of the machine, the ROM of char sets in the 8-bit range is
different though from any codepage you might have in a PC, one has to do
some remapping eventually.)
The battery-driven diskette drive is approx. the size of two walkmans
put one above the other. (It uses 3,5" diskettes of *100* MB - and
these are difficult to find by now, although all the major "brands"
produced them at the time - I have Fuji, BASF, Maxell etc.) *Very*
strudy, it wouldn't go off track even in a bouncing bus on a country
road in Afghanistan.
Have fun !
(As soon I find some time I'll eMail you the driver prog etc.)
Heimo Claasen / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Brussels 1999-03-28
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