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From: bumby@math.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: battery-watching program for Zenith Minisport
Keywords: battery watch, minisport
Message-ID: <May.6.18.18.44.1991.21237@math.rutgers.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 22:18:45 GMT
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Two postings have asked about Battery Watch:

     Article <124565@unix.cis.pitt.edu> May 6 12:56
     Subject: Battery Watch Software
     From: dpbst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David P Brennan @ University of
     Pittsburgh)

     and

     Article <1991May06.115931.4461@cs.ruu.nl> May 6 11:59
     Subject: battery-watching program for Zenith Minisport
     Keywords: battery watch, minisport
     From: hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder @ Utrecht University, Dept.
     of Computer Science)

I have been using this product in my T1000 and find it moderately
useful.  The program itself is very small, so you buy a disk that
allows you to install it on just about anything.  It is a product of
"Travelling Software" -- the Lap-Link folks.  It can't perform
miracles -- it can only use what the computer manufacturer makes
available, but I have found it useful for getting a better idea of
battery life than the little "low battery" light is able to give.  The
deep discharge is a nice idea in principle, but I have not found it
particularly useful in practice.  
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