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From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin)
Subject: Re: battery-watching program for Zenith Minisport
Message-ID: <1991May8.190702.18632@Think.COM>
Keywords: battery watch, minisport
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Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
References: <1991May7.230727.10588@mercury.cair.du.edu> <8w5L22w161w@nstar.rn.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 91 19:07:02 GMT

In article <8w5L22w161w@nstar.rn.com> jackw@nstar.rn.com (Jack Wiggins) writes:
>After trying to deal with Traveling software and my non-functional "Battery 
>Watch", I decided it'd be easier to give up on them ever trying to support 
>my machine.  They've lost my vote for sure.

The version I have (about 2 years old) allowed me to enter any values I
liked for the power drain caused by hard drive access, etc., and implied
that you could use it with _any_ laptop if you could determine reasonable
power drain numbers.  On the other hand, there are some features such as
backlighting which are specific to each model computer, so I don't see how
this could be so.  I can see how it could be difficult for them to keep up
with the nearly infinite number of laptop models and revisions.

This whole discussion _almost_ makes me think that Apple's use of a lead
acid battery (which allows you to determine the battery's charge directly)
was a good idea.

Travelling Software has certainly changed since the days when they produced
(very impressive) software for the Radio Shack Model 100.

- Laird Popkin, Thinking Machines

Connection Machine: Massively parallel supercomputer.  Also a cool black
cube with more blinking lights than you can shake a stick at.