Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!nmt.edu!khbsnsr From: khbsnsr@nmt.edu (Kenneth Brunell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: 48SX Power Message-ID: <1990Oct25.050142.28784@nmt.edu> Date: 25 Oct 90 05:01:42 GMT References: <4320@tellab5.tellabs.com> Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Lines: 28 In article <4320@tellab5.tellabs.com> seeya@tellabs.com (Mike Ciha) writes: > >I, too am amazed by this hunk of hardware and software..I've had my 48 for >just over two weeks.....My roommate and I (he got his first) were discussing >this very topic. I wonder, though, since the calculators have to be 2 inches >or less apart (according to the manual, p 620) to do the infrared transfers, >would the transmitter be strong enough to talk to the TV, say 15 feet away?? >Even if you could get it to generate the correct type of signals for the TV, >VCR, etc, you might have to hold it within 2 inches of the receiver >of the device. :-( > >Mike Actually, as I remember from the chatter on this newsgroup over the past several months, the distance over which the 48 will transfer is determined bye the sensitivity of the RECIEVER. The printer doesn't have to be two inches away. The TV etc. may not pick it up over 15 ft., but certainly more than two inches. I am VERY interested in the possibility of recording and transmitting IR remote signals. It just HAS to be possible!!!!!! -Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ , __ _ _ | "It's green . . ." | | ' ) / / ) // // | Mr. Scott | | /-< _ ____ /--< __ . . ____ _ // // | | | / ) | | ===============================================================================