Still looking for handheld devices that a Japanese company had designed
Hello! Many years ago, I had a chance to spend a month with a gadget that the OEM behind Seiko Watches and Epson printers, and practically everything else. The gadget was designed either by them or for them to provide for the scanning of barcodes, it was unique in that it was an Embedded PC that ran MSDOS 6.22 and used the PCMCIA standard to collect and exchange such, it also expected the programming for reading them would be on a card. The barciode reader would be a wand or probe similar to the ones that Radio Shack sold for the TRS-80 Model 100. It was imported to this country by a company named Cardinale Touch which was based in a Dallas TX suburb. Obviously then at the end of the month I did have it sent back, because I wasn't able to both pay that company's outrageous price and of course didn't have a laptop who probably grokked PC cards. I do now. So based on all of that what I would want is a little help in trying to track them down, including the stuff used to program them. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
Love to try to help. Do you have a picture or colors? approx dimensions? Any advertisements related to? Bill On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:52 PM Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello! Many years ago, I had a chance to spend a month with a gadget that the OEM behind Seiko Watches and Epson printers, and practically everything else.
The gadget was designed either by them or for them to provide for the scanning of barcodes, it was unique in that it was an Embedded PC that ran MSDOS 6.22 and used the PCMCIA standard to collect and exchange such, it also expected the programming for reading them would be on a card. The barciode reader would be a wand or probe similar to the ones that Radio Shack sold for the TRS-80 Model 100. It was imported to this country by a company named Cardinale Touch which was based in a Dallas TX suburb. Obviously then at the end of the month I did have it sent back, because I wasn't able to both pay that company's outrageous price and of course didn't have a laptop who probably grokked PC cards. I do now.
So based on all of that what I would want is a little help in trying to track them down, including the stuff used to program them. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
Hello! Those are all good questions. But about all I remember is that it was the color of a well used C64 or Apple IIe, (dirty ivory or dirty brown) and about the size of smartphone or tablet as one but four times that in size. And the worst of it is that I recall seeing the ad in a magazine from the middle 1990s and that it was called PE&IN and ran for about fourteen years. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 11:42 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Love to try to help. Do you have a picture or colors? approx dimensions? Any advertisements related to? Bill
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:52 PM Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello! Many years ago, I had a chance to spend a month with a gadget that the OEM behind Seiko Watches and Epson printers, and practically everything else.
The gadget was designed either by them or for them to provide for the scanning of barcodes, it was unique in that it was an Embedded PC that ran MSDOS 6.22 and used the PCMCIA standard to collect and exchange such, it also expected the programming for reading them would be on a card. The barciode reader would be a wand or probe similar to the ones that Radio Shack sold for the TRS-80 Model 100. It was imported to this country by a company named Cardinale Touch which was based in a Dallas TX suburb. Obviously then at the end of the month I did have it sent back, because I wasn't able to both pay that company's outrageous price and of course didn't have a laptop who probably grokked PC cards. I do now.
So based on all of that what I would want is a little help in trying to track them down, including the stuff used to program them. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
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