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From: bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: AgendA organiser
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.162038.6632@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Feb 91 16:20:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: cl.1991Feb25.162038.6632
References: <1991Feb22.133356.25700@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Reply-To: bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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In article <1991Feb22.133356.25700@cm.cf.ac.uk> mar@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Mark Rainey) writes:
>
> ... machines made by HP. Does anyone out there own anything else ?
> ... Microwriter AgendA,

Yup, and I continue to read this in the faint hope that there might
be some traffic about it.

Lets start up a discussion.

Has anybody else had experience with the Agenda crashing, and losing data?
When I first got it, I got it into a tight loop by defining
user key one to just the alpha symbol, which reinvokes user key 1 again.
This then lost memory when I turned it off and on.
(The power down was forced by the delay after two or three seconds, instead
of know)
I also lost memory by trying to download large amounts of data to it
(in small chunks) Around about the 50K mark it just went into a continual
housekeeping loop, and only respoonded to a hard shutdown, and again
the data was gone. Since then I've only used it for manually entered data
though, and its been completely reliable, even against being left
in a batteries too flat to turn on state for a week or two.

Brian.Brunswick@uk.ac.cam.cl  Disclaimer.  Short sig rules!