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From: hamilton@tdw235.ed.ray.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Poquet PC feedback
Message-ID: <3581@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 15:07:25 GMT
Sender: hamilton@sud509.ed.ray.com (Alan Hamilton @ Raytheon Company, Sudbury MA)
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A friend bought a Poquet PC about a week ago.  I like some of the
features.  It has a 80 X 25 line screen, DOS and tools in ROM
(scheduler, address book, calculator, editor), and a QWERTY
keyboard which far outstrips any similar system that I have seen.

He seems to be having two problems:

(1) The system frequently "freezes up" on him, and will not do
anything.  Even CTRL-ALT-DEL will not recover it -- he has to
reset the machine, which loses some of his setup information.

(2) The keyboard seems to not be inconsistent.  It seems to
require very carefull, full-stoke compression of the keys for
reliability, even though the slightest touch is all that is
usually needed to register most keystrokes.  I seem to recall
reading that this keyboard is a redesign of a less successful
one, but it still seems to have problems...

What experience have other people had with the Poquet PC?  There
have been only a few mentions of it since I started reading this
group a few weeks ago, and I would really appreciate some feedback
from other users.
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Alan Hamilton                           hamilton@tdw235.ed.ray.com