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From: Richard Kanarek <RKanarek@xxxxxxxx> Subject: No Respect for Classic Computers Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 03:59:26 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199811160610.WAA02745@xxxxxxxx> Dear Mr. Kaidor: Howdy! Regarding... > Hello, > > As you remember, I bought a Poqet from a Silicon Valley tube vendor > for $10... great deal, eh? Well, I've got another one for you: This > morning at a ham radio auction/swap-meet, I bought ANOTHER Poqet! > > >>>>>Five Dollars<<<<<< > > Heck, you can't even buy a decent lunch for five bucks anymore! > Who could resist? So now I am the owner of TWO Poqet Classics. > > Oh, and I met the guy I bought the first one from; > > "Hey, I've got some sort of cable for your Poqet - it was laying right > next to the PC, why didn't you take it? Come on down and get it...." > > - Jerry Kaidor ( jerry@xxxxxxxx ) Two comments: a. While I don't approve of gambling, I'd really consider at least buying a lottery ticket, were I you. b. Another thing I'd consider doing is patronizing the tube/Poqet distributor's store. Seems like a nice chap to me! Good luck! Cordially, Richard Kanarek P.S. Though I hardly use my Poqet anymore-- I'm trying to learn +386 assembly language programming, a task for which the Poqet hardly seems suitable! <g>-- perhaps I could still be of some use to you fellows? Some time ago I wrote a simple tetris-like video game designed espically to run on simple and not necessarly 100% compatible IBM computers. Actually its meant to run on both IBM & DEC Rainbow PC's running either DOS (any version) or CP/M-86 v1.1. Should anyone like it with its source code (RASM86; DRI's assembler) or just the executable alone feel free to email me!
From: Jerry Kaidor <jerry@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: No Respect for Classic Computers
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:44:56 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199811160807.AAA00944@xxxxxxxx> from "Richard Kanarek" at Nov 16, 98 03:59:26 am
Richard Kanarek wrote:
> Two comments:
> a. While I don't approve of gambling, I'd really consider at least
> buying a lottery ticket, were I you.
*** You don't know the half of it. Two weeks before the first Poqet,
I bought a laptop. At a general-purpose flea market. For $10. That
was a Toshiba "Portege" 650CT: Pentium 133, active matrix display,
32megs of ram, 1.3 gig drive, built-in sound card and 28.8 modem,
docking station, nice Targus case, all the original books and
aol/compuserv offers....
The screen didn't work. She told me that the laptop came from a
company that her company acquired. The screen died, she took it to
her IS person, who threw up his hands and told her to throw it away.
So she brought it to the flea market instead, to make a few bucks.
What neither she, nor the IS person realized, is that the computer
is under extended warrantee. Until April of the year 2000. Heck,
I didn't know, either. As far as I knew, I was buying a pile of plastic
to maybe scrounge a disk drive out of and then throw in the dumpster....
I think I may have used up my quota of luck for the year :-). BTW,
the second Poqet is missing a horizontal line of pixels near the bottom
of the screen. I understand that means that the screen cable has seen
better days.
- Jerry
> b. Another thing I'd consider doing is patronizing the tube/Poqet
> distributor's store. Seems like a nice chap to me!
>
> Good luck!
>
> Cordially,
> Richard Kanarek
>
>
> P.S. Though I hardly use my Poqet anymore-- I'm trying to learn +386
> assembly language programming, a task for which the Poqet hardly seems
> suitable! <g>-- perhaps I could still be of some use to you fellows?
> Some time ago I wrote a simple tetris-like video game designed espically
> to run on simple and not necessarly 100% compatible IBM computers.
> Actually its meant to run on both IBM & DEC Rainbow PC's running either
> DOS (any version) or CP/M-86 v1.1. Should anyone like it with its source
> code (RASM86; DRI's assembler) or just the executable alone feel free to
> email me!
>
>
From: "Max Lent" <max@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Digest poqetpc.v003.n020
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:24:40 -0500
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Jerry,
I think you are putting us on:-)
Max
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From: Jerry Kaidor <jerry@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: No Respect for Classic Computers
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 21:28:34 -0800 (PST)
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Hello,
As you remember, I bought a Poqet from a Silicon Valley tube vendor
for $10... great deal, eh? Well, I've got another one for you: This
morning at a ham radio auction/swap-meet, I bought ANOTHER Poqet!
>>>>>Five Dollars<<<<<<
Heck, you can't even buy a decent lunch for five bucks anymore!
Who could resist? So now I am the owner of TWO Poqet Classics.
Oh, and I met the guy I bought the first one from;
"Hey, I've got some sort of cable for your Poqet - it was laying right
next to the PC, why didn't you take it? Come on down and get it...."
- Jerry Kaidor ( jerry@xxxxxxxx )
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From: Jerry Kaidor <jerry@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Latest Poqet Acquisition
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:53:59 -0800 (PST)
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Greetings!
As you may recall, I'm the guy who bought a Poqet at the junk shop for
$10... then another Poqet at a ham auction for $5. ...
I just went back to the junk shop where I bought the first Poqet. He had
a "cable" for me. I wondered if it was a serial or parallel cable.
Turns out it was neither, and I am now the proud owner of a Poqet floppy
disk controller. Apparently, a prototype; it has a sticker on the bottom
that says "V1.01" and "Works w/New Poqet".
Unfortunately, there is no drive. Well, can't have'm all.
I plugged in the cable, did CTL-ALT_DEL, and a message came up informing
me that my floppy's batteries were dead :-). Of course, the usefulness of
a floppy cable with no floppy drive is limited.
Which brings me to a few questions:
* Does the Poqet floppy use a standard Shugart bus?
* Anybody know the pinout of the connector?
* I read somewhere that the Poqet floppy has a serial port on the back:
Are the serial signals brought out through the FDD cable?
...Thanks in advance,
- Jerry Kaidor ( jerry@xxxxxxxx )
From: Jerry Kaidor <jerry@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Digest poqetpc.v003.n020
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:00:40 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199811170028.QAA06940@xxxxxxxx> from "Max Lent" at Nov 16, 98 07:24:40 pm
Max Lent wrote:
>
> Jerry,
>
> I think you are putting us on:-)
*** Not at all. I have these two Poqet machines right here in front of me.
- Jerry
From: daloh@xxxxxxxx (Daryl L Hardes) Subject: Let's hire Jerry to find Poqets... Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:49:20 -0500 References: <199811160610.WAA02745@xxxxxxxx> Jeesh, Jerry... Poqets for $10 and then $5. Rub it in. You aren't going to let go of any you find, are you? If you weaken, I have a pocketful of change... Daryl ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
From: Michael Fetterman <d005041c@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Procomm in POQET
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:04:04 -0500 (EST)
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Dear Peter,
I have used Procomm 2.4.2 (and subsequently Procomm Plus 2.01) for many
years with my desktops; is there any difference between it and the Procomm
you noted you have for the POQET ?
I confess that I have yet to use my POQET Classic, with cables, in new
condition; I enjoy just having it (having wanted one since they appeared
at that impossibly high price).
Isn't the comm program in firmware adequate if calling only a single
Internet shell account ?
On the other hand, has anyone implemented a UNIX connection from the
POQET ?
Michael Fetterman
Voluntary Clinical Assistant Professor
of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
University of Miami
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