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From: bks@shiva.Berkeley.EDU (Brian K. Shiratsuki)
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Subject: Re: Review of Panasonic CF-150B (Long)
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Date: 5 Apr 91 19:10:42 GMT
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In article <3398@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong) writes:

>...I don't want to afford much more than $600 for a machine that I'll only
>use for a remote typing capture unit.  What other machines are available? 
>Will the manufacturers ever get clues about sensible features on basic
>machines?...

>...I see uses for a small generic machine like this as an alternative to
>expensive single-use data collectors, at the least.

for $600 you could get a cambridge z88 with an extra 128K.  the
keyboard is pretty funky (but usable for touch typing), and the display
has only eight lines.  but the batteries are supposed to last for
around twenty hours, and the machine is pretty small (just under an
inch thick, and about the size of a piece of typing paper).  it has a
serial port on it, and the manual includes a description of the
protocol used for file transfer.

i tried one for a day or so, but decided that the stock 32K was not
enough.  the basic machine would have cost $385, but adding the memory
i felt i would need would have added $120 to this.

					brian