Hello! Why Mike what are you selling? (Kidding, I looked at the entries.) In my cases besides those examples of logic, I am trying to find a very old by the standards of today, but certainly appropriate for this list, handheld. It was designed either by, or for, the OEM behind Seiko, sometime during the early part of the 1990s, about the time two things happened, one was the sudden importance of being able to collect data via handhelds, that of barcodes, and that those bounders at Microsoft released their MSDOS6.22 to the embedded device market. That market did nothing with that OS as they were waiting to evolve for a different OS altogether. It would have been traveling with an SDK for the methods, and even an appropriate laptop since the thing used PCMCIA cards for storage of data. I tried out one of them then, since I did not have the appropriate laptop and cards, and code, I wasn't able to hand it information to run with it, but now the <BLEEPING!> thing is now I do. Including a reason. Jeffrey, I'm thinking that if someone, any someone, does have the devices and wants to sell, I'm it, And the laptop with its software and so-forth. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 3:08 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have posted the flyer and directions in as many places I possibly could think of especially Facebook groups I belong to. I have many people looking for old radios and televisions and I hope they will see these things posted and make the drive to the swap meet. I am counting on the weather staying at 60 something degrees and fairly sunny! For those people who have looked at my list to see what I’m selling and what I need, don’t hesitate to contact me if necessary.
Mike Rosen
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On Apr 13, 2021, at 1:32 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:37 PM Tony Bogan <tony.bogan@vcfed.org> wrote:
CDL is talking about doing a space or two. I told Dan and Wayne last night to make sure they sign up ahead of time and I informed them someone has to be manning the space.
Great! Thanks!
Tony
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On Apr 13, 2021, at 12:29 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We have about 30 people signed up with about 40 spaces reserved. One guy is an electronics scraper and is taking 5 spaces and a 20 foot truck! He will be bringing all sorts of parts for machines mostly.
I expect there to be more signups "at the gate", but at least many of you are already signed up ahead of time.
So lots of excitement is going on in many corners of our realm about this event.
10 Day weather outlook shows partly cloudy and 64 degrees. Let's hope it stays that way. I will keep checking it as we get closer and the prediction gets more certain.
Here is the info: http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-swap-meet/ Here is the signup for vendors: https://forms.gle/kNCL8WVxTQcnw5nA6
I also ordered 3 more stickers. I hope everyone likes them.
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
In my cases besides those examples of logic, I am trying to find a very old by the standards of today, but certainly appropriate for this list, handheld. It was designed either by, or for, the OEM behind Seiko, sometime during the early part of the 1990s, about the time two things happened, one was the sudden importance of being able to collect data via handhelds, that of barcodes, and that those bounders at Microsoft released their MSDOS6.22 to the embedded device market. That market did nothing with that OS as they were waiting to evolve for a different OS altogether. It would have been traveling with an SDK for the methods, and even an appropriate laptop since the thing used PCMCIA cards for storage of data.
The totally sexy but possibly not very useful HP-95LX / 100LX / 200LX palmtops? They are DOS and IIRC had PCMCIA. The Atari Portfolio (See Terminator 2 and Parker Lewis Can't Lose) also ran MS-DOS, is pretty sexy, but had no PCMCIA. It uses a Mitubishi BeCard (HudsonSoft?) for storage. Those are the two that I know of that are MS-DOS. Was it a palmtop or a gun format? The HP's feel oh so nice. - Ethan
Hello! Big palmtop. I always thought they were targeting the wrong audience because the thing was much bigger than the ones from HP. It also had an early touch screen keyboard. Oddly enough the only importer was a shop named Cardinale Touch.and they were based in the same neighborhood as Dell was. (In the beginning that is.) Funny bit of trivia there's still a discussion raging on Hack A Day regarding those palmtops. The writer during his salad days was a programmer who wrote lots of code for a strange looking PDA, it was a PCMCIA card, but it contained the intelligence of one, and was branded by the Roladex people. The discussions or comments portion contained people offering all sorts of discourse on the merits of the device he used a lot of, that HP one, and he described a scene which prompted it. Now if someone has both a Dell laptop from the same period as the handhelds, and that family of palmtops, any of the model names for a HP one, that Ethan mentions, then that would be worth a big heap of diamonds. (Also the power crystals of Star Trek's starships.) ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 4:15 PM Ethan O'Toole <telmnstr@757.org> wrote:
In my cases besides those examples of logic, I am trying to find a very old by the standards of today, but certainly appropriate for this list, handheld. It was designed either by, or for, the OEM behind Seiko, sometime during the early part of the 1990s, about the time two things happened, one was the sudden importance of being able to collect data via handhelds, that of barcodes, and that those bounders at Microsoft released their MSDOS6.22 to the embedded device market. That market did nothing with that OS as they were waiting to evolve for a different OS altogether. It would have been traveling with an SDK for the methods, and even an appropriate laptop since the thing used PCMCIA cards for storage of data.
The totally sexy but possibly not very useful HP-95LX / 100LX / 200LX palmtops? They are DOS and IIRC had PCMCIA.
The Atari Portfolio (See Terminator 2 and Parker Lewis Can't Lose) also ran MS-DOS, is pretty sexy, but had no PCMCIA. It uses a Mitubishi BeCard (HudsonSoft?) for storage.
Those are the two that I know of that are MS-DOS. Was it a palmtop or a gun format? The HP's feel oh so nice.
- Ethan
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