Name: pc110faq121.txt
Last-Modified: 1996/08/25
Version: 1.21

Short: This is the IBM Palmtop PC 110 - FAQ version 1.21
Author: Marko Schuster ([email protected])
Home: http:// (I have no www-page yet)



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Table of contents
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1. Whats the IBM Palmtop PC 110?
1.1. Short description
1.2. Technical specifications
1.3. Pictures and Internet/WWW-Sites with additional informations
! 1.4. Models and prices
1.5. Availability (or: Where can I buy it?)

2. Advanced informations about the ...
2.1. screen/VGA-Display
2.2. lcd-display
2.3. keyboard and special FN-keystrokes
2.4. pointing-head and mouse-buttons
2.5. keyboard and mouse connector
2.6. memopad
2.7. PCMCIA-slot(s)
2.8. smart pico-flash slot
2.9. infrared port
2.10. modem
2.11. telephone
2.12. headset-connectors
2.13. soundcard
2.14. rechargeable battery (incl. some reports 'how long last ...')
2.15. power supply
2.16. port-replicator (docking station), its ports and the floppy
2.17. storage devices
! 2.18. RAM & upgrade

3. The Personaware-software supplied on the internal flash-disk
3.1. General usage for non-Japanese reading user
3.2. Advanced usage (and features on the main menu screen)
3.3. Description, help and usage for each application (general&advanced)
3.3.1. Schedule
3.3.2. ToDo List
3.3.3. Notebook
3.3.4. Address
3.3.5. E-Mail
3.3.6. FAX
3.3.7. Telephone
3.3.8. IR Connect
3.3.9. World Clock
3.3.10. Calculator
3.3.11. Editor
3.3.12. Draw Memo
3.3.13. Game
3.3.14. Personal
3.3.15. DOS
3.3.16. Power MGT

4. Other software supplied on disks and/or harddisk (YDW-Model)
4.1. The English/Japanese IBM DOS J7.0/V
4.2. CoSession (host-programme)
4.3. tvcc (converts wav<>tvc for voice-features of the internal modem)
4.4. PS2 (configures the PC110)
4.5. The Japanese Windows 3.1J
4.6. TranXit (IR-Software for Windows)
4.7. EasyFax-Lite (Fax-Software for Windows)
4.8. Other small programmes (inkdrv, lrgptr, ..)
4.9. driver (PCMCIA/..., used in config.sys or windows)

5. HowTo ...
5.1. install an other (english/national) DOS-Version
5.2. install windows 3.1 (english/national)
5.3. install windows 95 (english/national)
5.4. install linux (english/national)
5.5. install other operating systems
5.6. install the new version (v1.01) of the personaware software

6. Questions and Answers (Feel free to mail me your questions and/or answers)
6.1. Can I run Personaware from an english/national (MS) DOS?
6.2. How do I get into the BIOS-Setup?
6.3. SCSI on the PC110 with PCMCIA?
* 6.4. What about TV/Video capture with PCMCIA? (Nogatech PCMCIA-cards)
* 6.5. Several problems, questions and answers to an installation of Win95
* 6.6. Some notes for useing a PCMCIA-HD together with another PCMCIA-card
and a TypeII-III-Adapter.

7. About this FAQ
! 7.1. History
7.2. Thanks to ..
7.3. How to contact the author

=============================================================================
= 1. Whats the IBM Palmtop PC 110?
=============================================================================

1.1. Short description
-----------------------

The PC110 is at the moment the smallest "notebook" and most powerful high-end
Palmtop available. It has about the size of a VHS-video cassette (about
1/6 smaller in width). In this small size you have the power of a 486 CPU
with a color screen, internal voice-fax-modem, telephone, soundcard, mouse and
expandability through PCMCIA-II/III ports and a small docking station.


1.2. Technical specifications
------------------------------

CPU: i486sx33 (SL Enhanced)
RAM: 4 MB (low model YD0), 8 MB (mid/high-end model YD1/YDW), 12, 16, and maybe
even 20 MB with 3d-party memory-upgrades
Internal Flash: 4 MB (incl. DOS/V 7.0 and Personaware-OrganiserSoftware)
VideoCard: Chips&Technologies 65535 SVGA, 512k RAM; ROM incl. Japanese fonts
Display: 4.7", STN, 256 Colors, 640x480, backlight
Keyboard: 90 keys, English/Japanese layout
Slots: SmartPicoFlash
2xPCMCIA-II (can be used as 1xPCMCIA-III)
Modem: WingJack; FAX Class2/2.0 9600bps, DATA 2400/MNP5, VOICE (no standard)
Telephone: Speaker/Microphone on the front, 2 connectors for headset (2.5mm)
Soundcard: Soundblaster compatible (8bit Mono) incl. microphone
Mouse: PointingHead (trackpoint-like) with 2x2 buttons
PenInput: MemoPad, only useable in personaware software
LCD-display for battery charge, time display, ...
Infrared Port, keyboard/mouse connector
PowerSupply: AC 100V (50/60hz) -> DC 10.5V/1.3A/13.7W
Size: 158x113x33mm Weight: 630g (incl. battery), 715g (incl. batt. & HD)
DockingStation (PortReplicator): VGA-, Serial-, Parallel-, PS/2-Keyboard-,
PS/2-Mouse-Port, Floppy-connector (incl. in YDW-model)
HardDiskDrive: 260 MB PCMCIA-III (incl. in YDW-model)
FloppyDiskDrive: 3.5" 1.44/1.2M/720k (incl. in YDW-model)


1.3. Pictures and Internet/WWW-Sites with additional informations
------------------------------------------------------------------

Amanda Walker has an english page with infos about the PC110, a picture, and
informations how to install english dos/win(95):
http://members.aol.com/netgoddess/pc110.html

Other known PC110 Users english Homepages:
http://www.act.ulaval.ca/~landry/pc110/
http://home.earthlink.net/~chuck312/palm1.htm

The "main"-site for the PC110 is IBM Japan: http://www.ibm.co.jp/
The most IBM-Japan-WWW-pages are in Japanese, some are in English; you should
be able to find a way to PC110 infos. There are also some gifs.

In Japan, the PC110 is often called "PT110", so if you want to search the WWW
with Lycos or Alta-Vista or anything else, search for "PC110" and "PT100" ..


1.4. Models and prices
----------------------

It is said that the PC110 isn't produced anymore in Japan, but will come out
this year in the US. We'll see. Prices drop down to about a half, but may
get higher as there aren't too many left now...

IBM Japan only sells 4MB and 8MB version, but there exist 3d-party-memory-
upgrades with upto 20MB .. check out the new section 2.18 how to upgrade
memory..

Consider this note: Batteries and Harddisks are cheaper in US&Germany than
in Japan! There also exist 340 MB PCMCIA-III-HDs already and >500MB ones
should exist 'till the end of this year...


1.5. Availability (or: Where can I buy it?)
--------------------------------------------

NOTE: The following parargaph may be outdated yet

Those "local japanese computer stores" seems to make no exports. The only
source I know is GlobalSupport. Though they're not as cheap as some Japanese
stores, they seem to have good support. Their fax-nr is +81-3-3355-5496.
I got everything answered by "S. Ito", he wrote me also a EMail and his
address is "[email protected]" - don't know if it's a private account only.
(No, I don't got my PC110 cheaper to write their faxnumber here ;-) )
Their prices are (24 Apr 96): YD0: 153000Y, YD1: 178000Y, YDW: 255000Y,
12M-Upgrade: 50000Y.


=============================================================================
= 2. Advanced informations about the ...
=============================================================================

2.1. screen/VGA-Display
------------------------

The internal display has 640x480 pixels. The VGA-Card can display max.
256 colors. If you connect a VGA-Monitor to the vga-port of the docking
station, you can get also 800x600x16 under dos&win. As it has 512k of RAM,
it should be possible to display 800x600 with 256 colors. No problem to do
so with linux, but I don't know how it is possible with dos/win. Universal
VESA-drivers' 800x600x256 won't work. The built-in vesa-driver (no need to
load one) has only 2 entries: 640x480x256 and 800x600x16. You can also
use the standard vga-modes of course. Use "ps2 vexpansion on" to enable
the vertical screen expansion, this means that you'll get e.g. the 320x200
fullscreen (320x240), it works with DOS-text-modes also. There seems to be
no special software for the VGA-Card to be able to use 800x600x256 on an
external monitor or to have more than 60Hz on a multiscan-monitor. You can
adjust contrast and bright of the internal display. Whereas the bright has
only 3 steps, the contrast is very good to adjust (wide range from totally
black to totally white). However I found that if you make the contrast
high enough to display the dark colours correct in an image, the light grey
borders in personaware's buttons are too white then. Once I installed a
graphic software under windows, I found out that the display has a gamma of
1.6. Maybe I had the contrast too high. It is a very small (4.7"!)
display, if you look the whole day on it you'll get problems with your eyes
:) And if you're used to it afters some days, don't look at 10.5" 640x480
Displays :) It's a real good display (good contrast/colors/..). A
color-dot/pixel has about the size of 0.148mm. If you would compare the
size and the display with a 14"-monitor, you have to use a 1600x1200
screenmode to see how small characters on the PC110 display are. ;-)


2.2. lcd-display
-----------------

The PC110 also has a small LCD-Display with 4 chars and some symbols which
indicate numlock, scrollock and capslock. It displays the clock if the
power is off, or display clock&battery charge if it's in suspended mode.
"AC" shows that the external power is connected and a "<" indicates that
the battery is recharged. (If the "<" blinks, the battery will be
discharged) "IBM" is shown if you power on the PC110, "HI/M/LO" shows the
power consumption (this is adjustable with FN-F11 when no power supply
connected. You can define LCD&Power timeout and CPU power (33/16/8MHz) for
each mode with the PS2-programme (this feature however is only available
in its userinterface-mode, which only works under an Japanese DOS-environment.
The charge of battery is displayd with 0%,5%,10%,20%,30%,.....,90%,100% if
the machine is in suspend-mode. (FN-F4 or closed)


2.3. keyboard
--------------

Well, imagine the size and you'll know that this is not the keyboard you
want to type whole day&night on it :) However, it is indeed possible to do so.
No more words to say as this is very subjective. How big are your fingers?Etc.

It has 90 keys incl. 1xFN, 2xCTRL, 2xALT, 2xSHIFT and the whole other needed
keys. PageUP/PageDOWN/Home/End are in the first row above the backspace key.
(Well, I like the FN-cursor on some notebooks more). There also exist special
Japanese keys. If you load a national keymap ("keyb gr" for example) some of
this keys are remapped, other are useless. Maybe you could define it with
some tools. If someone has such a utility and it works, please let me know,
because one key from the german keyboard isn't remapped and 2 japanese keys
are undefined (+ 3 keys which seems to be alt-style)

You can turn on/off the key-click with "ps2 click on/off"

There are some special (secret) FN-keys which aren't described in the manual:

FN+V = toggles vertical expansion of the screen on/off (PS2 vexpansion on/off)
FN+M = toggles speaker on/off
FN+B = toggles LCD-Status. Look at the number displayed in the LCD, it means:
0 = show battery status if on, batt.&time if off (="ps2 _@stat auto")
1 = show always the time (="ps2 _@stat time")
2 = show always battery status (="ps2 _@stat batt")
3 = toggle always between battery status and time

Anyone knows other keys? (For example to turn the backligh off?)


2.4. pointing-head and mouse-buttons
-------------------------------------

The pointing-head (not 100% the same as the thinkpad trackpoints) is on the
left above the keyboard. Two of the mouse-buttons are also here, but on the
other, right side, there are also the two mouse-buttons. "left/right" is
same on both sides, the left are not remapped for the left hand. This is
really a nice idea, as you can either use the mouse and buttons with only
the left hand, or move the mouse with the left hand and use the right hand
to press the buttons. Of course it's faster to use windows with a real mouse,
however I think it's better and faster as a trackpad. My opinion!


2.5. keyboard and mouse connector
----------------------------------

There's a small special keyboard/mouse-connector on the back of the PC110.
You need a special cable however, then you'll have a PS/2 keyboard/mouse
connector. With a Y-Adapter you can then have a keyboard and a mouse attached
at the same time.


2.6. memopad
-------------

Between the two mouse-buttons on the left and the two on the right there is the
memopad. Here you can draw and write. However this will only work in the
"draw memo"-application of Personaware. The digitizer however is slow, so you
cannot write your signature fast. And of course you cannot see where you draw.
A trackpad may have been better to include here. The only real usage in my
opinion is to write your signature, 'cause you can use the drawmemos
with the internal fax-software. However I'd prefer a real pen-organizer to
draw "memos" (Even the new, small Casio NX-4000 has a faster digitizer) :-)


2.7. PCMCIA-slot(s)
--------------------

On the left side under the keyboard there are two PCMCIA-II-slots which can be
used as one PCMCIA-III slot. If you've bought the YDW-model, you'll find the
HD here. Of course you cannot use the PCMCIA-III-HD together with, say, a
PCMCIA-CDROM or -Modem. Although IBM Japan says they give no warranty for
compatibility with non-japanese PCMCIA-cards, I don't think there will be
any. I tried my Zenith Z-Player CDROM, works fine. The PCMCIA-Port is
bootable, if a HD is attached, the PC110 remaps the drives (C: = HD, D:=
internal flash) and boot off it. For sysinfo-programmes, this is simply an
IDE-controller then. There's no need to load any PCMCIA-drivers. With this
feature you could have for example two PCMCIA-HDs, one with Dos&Windows and
another one with Linux. You can define the boot-drive(s) in the BIOS-Setup.
Default is Floppy->HDD->Flash.


2.8. smart pico-flash slot
---------------------------

On the other side under the keyboard is the smart-pico-flash-port. There
exist 4MB, 10MB and 15MB ones I think.


2.9. infrared port
-------------------

As I don't have any other computers with such a port, I have no experience
with it yet. Also I don't know if it's possible to control your TV...


2.10. modem
------------

Well, the internal modem seems to be one of the worst they could include ;-)
Ok, if you look at the PC110 you cannot imagine that they found enough space
for a modem at all. FAX is class2/2.0 with max. 9600 BPS. This is ok. DATA
however is 2400/MNP5 max. No V42bis, no >2400. However, it has a voice-feature!
I don't know if this works with existing versions of voice-mailbox-software,
I haven't found any on one of my CDs. There is a small utility on one of the
disks called "tvcc" which converts .tvc<>.wav - whereas tvc is the format
the modem sends and receive voice. I don't know if it is possible to answer
a call in voice/fax mode, I tried it once and it doesn't work, however I don't
know each AT-command. There are only a few AT-commands available. For example,
there is _no_ ATL to set the volume neither a AT&W to save your settings. In
the manual of the PC110 only a few AT-commands are listed, the AT-commands for
the voice-mode however are listed in a (japanese) textfile supplied with the
"tvcc"-utility. I partly translated this text, but its too long to add it in
the FAQ, if you want to have it, please write an e-mail to me...
Please also write if you 've written or configured a Voice-Mailbox-Software
to work with this modem. As it uses "AT+V..."-commands, it's not rockwell-,
but also not ZyXel-compatible ... :-(


2.11. telephone
----------------

With the modem connected to the phone line, you are also able to use the
PC110 as a telephone. On the front you have a speaker on the left and a
microphone on the right. The microphone is also a switch to go on/off hook.
You can answer a call with the PC110 off, but you cannot dial then (this
can be either done with Personaware or an ATD-command sent to the modem).
The phone-ring can be turned on/off with a switch on the right above the
smart-pico-flash-port.


2.12. headset-connectors
-------------------------

There exist two headset-connectors (mic/speaker-combo), one on the front
besides the mic, and the other one on the back. The front seems only to control
the phone line, the back uses the soundcard _and_ the PC-Speaker! So it's
open to you what you'll connect here ;-). The "input" here is microphone and
not "line", if you want to record in windows (or whereever), be sure to select
"microphone" and not "line" as input. The real micro in the front and the
speaker will be disabled when you plug something in here..


2.13. soundcard
----------------

It's a soundblaster-compatible soundcard, 8bit mono. The default-settings
are IRQ 5, adr. 220h, I think. You can change this with the PS2-programme.
The sound goes off the right speaker which is located on the battery-cover
You can adjust the volume with FN-PgUp/PgDn in 8 steps. I suggest to lower
the volume before using the modem as this is very loud compared to system-
beeps for example.


2.14. rechargeable battery (incl. some reports 'how long last ...')
--------------------------------------------------------------------

The battery is 7.2V, 1200mAh. You can use also a Sony NP-520 which has
1350mAh. It is said they last about 1.5-3h without HD and 1-1.5h with HD.
The LCD displays the status of the battery (0%...100%, re/discharge)
The battery cannot be recharged while useing the PC110 with external
power, in fact the PC110 has to be in suspend-mode (FN-F4 or closed).
Also no recharge when the PC110 is turned off!!
It is said there exist a programme in Japan to charge the battery
while you use the PC110.

2.15. power supply
-------------------

The AC power supply is 100V, 50/60Hz. Various people use it in the US
with 110/115V without problems so far. In Europe however, where you have
220/230V, is it impossible to use this without an adaptor. As I have not
found any such convertor, I use a 9V/1.3A power supply. Officially the PC110
needs 10.5V/1.3A, but 9V/1.3A works fine. Not does my 10.5V/1.0A of my
MiniDisc-Walkmen! (*German on*: Ich benutze den "Mainy 9V/1.3A", den's z.B.
beim Conrad gibt und von Egston aus Oesterreich hergestellt wird. Er ist sehr
handlich, wird kaum warm und funktioniert problemlos. Natuerlich hat der
Stecker nicht gepasst, da musste der originale 'ran. *German off*)


2.16. port-replicator (docking station), its ports and the floppy
------------------------------------------------------------------

I'd call it "docking station", IBM Japan calls it "port replicator". (I
think because of its small size and the possibility to use it without
external power from the PC110 battery) Its size is about the same of the
PC110 and is sticked under it, that means the "unit" is then twice as
thick. You'll get standard serial, parallel, VGA- ports on the back and
PS/2 keyboard, mouse and power on the left. On the right is the floppy
connector, (Floppy is also supplied with the YDW-model). The station is very
light weighted (~380g) and you can use it without external power from the
PC110 battery. Some words about the ports:
-serial: 9pin, fifo. can be used as COM1 or COM2, however you have to define
in the BIOS wether to use COM1/COM2 as internal modem, IR, serial or
PCMCIA. So no COM3/4 !!
-parallel: uni- and bidirectional. No EPP. Iomega ZIP-drive gets about
95k/s write and 110k/s. If anyone gets more please let me know!
-mouse: it seems to be impossible to use mouse and pointing head together.
At least I tried to use a serial mouse with a ser<>ps/2 adapter,
and this didn't worked at all. Maybe you need special PS/2-mice.
-keyboard: when a keyboard is connected, the internal keyboard is switched
off. You can type "ps2 _@keyboard device both" to use both
keyboards, but be sure to turn it to "auto" if there's no ext.
keyboard connected..

2.17. storage devices
----------------------

On every PC110 there's an internal 4 MB flash disk. If you don't want to use
an HD or you want to use both PCMCIA-slots free, you could buy smart pico
flash disks which are about half the size of a PCMCIA-card. There is one slot
for such a card, which are available in 4, 10 and 15 MB at the moment. Of
course you could also buy PCMCIA-II flash cards. And of course you can use a
PCMCIA-III harddisk, whereas a 260 MB one is supplied with the YDW model.
The PC110 has support for a PCMCIA-III HD already built-in, that means if a
HD is found in the PCMCIA-slot you can boot off it, this drive is C: and
the internal flash D: then, you don't have to load any PCMCIA-drivers and
sysinfo-programms report it as an IDE-controller and -drive. On the internal
flash there's the personaware programmes and a very small PC-Dos/V7.0J. There
are about 450k free. To have more memory, you could delete the japanese
dictionary file and install stacker on it. I got about 3 MB "fake" free then.
Also no problem to use stacker on the PCMCIA-HD of course.


2.18. RAM & upgrade
--------------------

It is said there exist 3d-party 8, 12 and 16 MB RAM upgrades. If you have a
8MB-model, you'll already have a 4 MB card in. To upgrade the memory, you
have to open the PC110 from the bottom, but this is very easy. After you've
opened the case you'll see a small card (or free slot) in the right. This is
the RAM-card (or the place for it). (Well, you may lose your warrenty, you
know ..) Now you can exchange the 4 MB card with a 8 MB card to have 12 MB
RAM. The upgrade to 20 MB is said to be a bit more complicated, it seems you
have to send the whole PC110 to a Japanese computer-store...



=============================================================================
= 3. The Personaware-software supplied on the internal flash-disk
=============================================================================

General keyboard usage as usual (ESC=cancel/abort, ENTER=ok; F12=save&exit)

3.1. General usage for non-Japanese reading user
-------------------------------------------------

Generally I'd say: Just take a bit time and try everything out :) You
cannot format your flash, you could only delete some files, so make a
backup first :) Ok, serious: After starting personaware (say, after
booting the PC110 from the internal flash-disk), use the mouse or cursor
buttons to select an application and press Enter. Exit an app. with F12.
In the most app. you'll come back at the same page the next time you start
it. You can copy&insert text with ctrl-c/v/x (mark with shift-cursor). By
pressing F1 you'll get help, of course always in Japanese, but you could
see how special keys are assigned in this prg.). On the main screen you
can turn on/off the button bar with F12 or pressing the mousebutton in the
right bottom corner. The icons are generally easy to understand.


3.2. Advanced usage (and features on the main menu screen)
-----------------------------------------------------------

You can change each icon, picture, description from the main screen, you can
also add and delete applications or move their position. It's possible to
have more appl. installed than you can see on the screen (scroll with cursor
or F7/F8). This are some of the keys&features on the main screen:
F2: Add a new application. See F4 for the description of the requester.
You can install every com or exe file which could be found in the PATH,
even "win.com" ;-)
F3: Delete the selected application.
F4: Change the selected application. A requester is popped up where you can
enter the following: (C)=Description (shown under the clock), (B)=
button-text, (E)="program.exe" executable, (I)=filename of the icon,
(P)=filename of the picture. Bottom buttons: Ok, Cancel, Help
F5: Move the selected application
F7/F8: Scroll up/down if more than 2x8 applications are installed.
F10: Secretary, will show the schedules today and in near future and also
your biorhythm (!)
F11: Tools-Menu: (S)=Settings, first field: what should be done if a RING
occures on the internal modem (fax/?/nothing), the second field is
called alarm in the documentation and in the third I think you could
specify the time the PC110 should wake up.
(P)=Program settings, (1)/(2) one-click/doubleclick to start prg.
(X)=Exchange title&button names
(B)=bubble-help on/off
Tools-F11 (big field) will exit personaware and turn off the PC110.
F12: Turns the button-bar off.
Ctrl-Q: Quit personaware
The icons are OS/2-icons, I found no programme for dos/win yet to convert
or edit them :-(
The pictures are 190x250 16color BMP-files with standard-color map. No
problem here to convert and draw your own ones.
All pictures&icons are located in \pw\system\ - where also exist some more
icons and bmp-files used by the applications. For example, I've created a new
background and new button-images and enhanced some other things.
In \pw\data\ you'll find all files used by the applications: datafiles
(schedule/address/..), .ini-files and so on. You'd like to have a look at
some of the .ini-files, but it's most useless...


3.3. Description, help and usage for each application (general&advanced)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
3.3.1. Schedule
----------------

F2: add entry: Description, secret, start time, start date, end time,
end date, place, alarm on/off (x minutes before), note
F3: abort edit
F4: save new entry
F8: repeat: P=Period (from date - to date, every X days/weeks/...)
d=daily, w=weekly (monday, tuesday, ... sunday)
m=monthly: per day, per .. weekday (? .. japanese ..)
y=yearly
F3: delete entry (if you delete a repeated entry, press Y to delete only
this and N to delete all (after the first ok/return to delete)
F5: search
F6: switch to another view. Press d/w/m/h/l to jump "fast" to a view.
(day/week/month/year/list)
F7: go to ..., opens a small calendar.
F8: go to today and now
F9: zoom in/out (change font size)
F10: switch to to-do-list
F11: tools: (F)=file: O=open, S=save(?), D=delete
(S)=secret area (-> enter password)
(P)=print
(R)=printer settings (IBM or ESC/P)
(T)=settings: default entry duration (60/30/15 minutes)
(E)=don't display time in day-view (if selected)
(H)=special days which are on the same day every year: A=Add,
E=Erase. D=month/day, N=name of the day (holidays)
they're marked as "red" but their name isn't listed in
any of the views :-(
(Y)=(It seems you can give names to a period of years here)
F12: save&exit to main screen
d: day-view
w: week-view (left=sunday, right=saturday)
m: month-view (left=sunday, right=saturday)
h: half-year-view
l: list-view
enter: change selected entry (look at "F2" for further information)

If you'd view at the DEFAULT.SCD-file, you'd see the format of the file in
the first line: date,time,to date,to time,subject,place,alarm,alarm lead time,
repeat,repeat,every,start date,end date,note
This means it's only a ","-seperated list, this makes it very easy to convert
to/from personaware!


3.3.2. ToDo List
-----------------

Sorry, as I don't needed this yet, I cannot say anything :)
However, from the DEFAULT.TDD-file: date,to date,subject,category,priority,
done,done date,note


3.3.3. Notebook
----------------

Not many differences to the "main" operation things, buttons&tools. Should be
no problem to check how it works.
DEFAULT.NTD calls its fields: date,time,subject,category,note


3.3.4. Address
---------------

F2: add entry: name,category,secret,"yomi" (here you HAVE to insert some
special japanese letters),birthday,Tel1,Fax1,Zip1,Adress1,office(?),
post(?),Tel2,Fax2,Zip2,Address2,station(?),EMail, Note.
F3: cancel
F4: save
F11: o: add picture to this entry (YES! You can add an 150x150 16-color
BMP-file to each entry. Nice, eh? :) )
n: no picture
F3: delete entry
F5: search
F6: change view (list-view/list&entry-view)
F7: display only entris with selected category
F9: zoom in/out (change font-size)
F10: dial selected entry
F11: (F)=file (same function as in 'schedule')
(S)=secret ('')
(P)=print ('')
(R)=printer settings ('')
(O)=which entries should be displayd in the list-view
F12: save&exit to main screen
Ctrl/Shift-Cursor in list-view: change the size of the selected column
enter: view/change selected entry (look at "F2" for further information)

If you'd view at the DEFAULT.ADD-file, you'd see the format of the file
in the first line: yomi,name,category,home tel number,home fax number,home
zip,home address,birth day,office,station,post,office tel number,office fax
number,office zip,office address,email,photo file name,voice file name,note1,
note2,note3
This means it's only a ","-seperated list, this makes it very easy to convert
to/from personaware! And no, I don't see anything about "voice file" in the
application. Maybe on newer versions ;)
And no, the birthday isn't included into the schedule automatically, but it's
displayd in the "info"-field of the secretary (It's like an adventure to find
out and understand everything of this programme ;-) )


3.3.5. E-Mail
--------------

This is not a special email-programm, no, it's a terminal programme!
F3: hang up
F4: connect?
F5: capture on/off
F6: ? (dial japanese services)
F7: download file
F8: upload file
F9: zoom in/out (change font size)
F11: settings: phonebook,userid,password,dial-mode,pre-number,?,?,bit,stopbits,
parity,com1/2, transfer protocol (X/Zmodem),path,init-string
p.s.: Either it has no ansi/vt100 or I haven't found a way to activate it ;)


3.3.6. FAX
-----------

F3: abort
F4: start
F5: view fax (hm.. ?!)
F6: normal/"service"-mode ("service" means you call a number and receive a fax)
F9: choose an entry to dial from the address/phonebook
F10: choose if you'd like the fax to be text-only, text with header picture or
text with bottom picture. Then you can edit the text and draw something
on the memopad for example.
F11: settings: dialmode, pre/out-number (inserted before the number is dialed),
com-port, your phone-number (I think), (your phone number again ?)
Faxes are sent in fine-mode with a japanese header incl. date/time/pages.


3.3.7. Telephone
-----------------

Dials a phone number with the built in modem. If you have problems with one of
the default settings, just try another one ;-)


3.3.8. IR Connect
------------------

As I have no other device with infrared port, I have no experience with this
part yet.


3.3.9. World Clock
-------------------

First you should get my english "city1s.txt"-file so you can see the name of
the cities in english and not in japanese ;-) Should be installed in
\pw\data\ - directory. I think you cannot add cities from the worldclock-
application, you have to edit this text-file directly with an editor.
F2: add selected city. You can see max. 4 cities&times simultaneously.
The symbol besides the time is daylight-saving-time on/off. You are then
asked wether to adjust the clock +1/-1h or not.
F3: delete selected city-view/clock. (Doesn't delete the city from the file)
F4: use the selected city (from the map) as the city displayd in the selected
clock
F5: "what's the time in X (Y,...) if its ..:.. in the selected city".
F6: move selected city (well, its position in the clock-line)
F7: set alarm
F8: unzoom & center the map to your home-town.
F9: zoom map in/out
F11: change time and home town
F12: exit


3.3.10. Calculator
-------------------

Just a calculator. Really? No, it has more features you might have thought at
the first look :) Press F6 to switch through its modes: scientific, measure/
weight/.. and financial.
Scientific mode: you can use "s" as sin and so on, look in the F1-help for
the shortcut-keys.
F9: display everything in decimal&hex-mode.

measure/weight: you can change the kind of transformation with the button-list
on the left. Here's a complete list, the first number is the line-nr of the
left button-list and then the bigger buttons in the mid are listed from
left to right, top to bottom (you'll see the english in the display):
1: mm, ft, cm, yard, m, mile, km, <japanese>, inch, <japanese>
2: m^2, <japanese>, <japanese>, <japanese>, ha, acre, <japanese>
3: cc, gal(us), l, <japanese>, m^3, <japanese>, pint, <jap.>, quart, <jap.>
4: g, <japanese>, kg, <japanese>, t, <japanese>, oz, lb
5: degree celsius, farenheit, kelvin

financial mode: too much japanese here. Look at F1 and the documantation for
the formulas used here, maybe you could check it out..


3.3.11. Editor
---------------

First you have to choose the file you want to edit.
F2: Open another file
F3: Abort
F4: Save
F5: Search (and replace)
F7/F8: Scroll up/down
F9: zoom in/out (change font size)
Ctrl-F9: switch font (roman/monospaced, roman/proportional, helvetica/proport.)
F10: next file (if more than one are opened)
F11: Settings: (F)=foreground color, (B)=background color, (T)=font (roman/
mono, roman, helvetica), (S)=size, (W)=wordwrap, (D)=default
F12: save&exit
Ctrl-L: change header-line (filename with/without path)
Ctrl-F: find/replace next
Ctrl-B: find/replace previous

Note that this is an ASCII-editor, that means there are no styles or fonts
saved.


3.3.12. Draw Memo
------------------

Here you can draw on the memopad and with the mouse (hold down left button)
F2: new memo
F3: delete this memo
F4: save this memo
F5: erase/draw
F6: erase memo
F9: switch between draw-mode and thumbnail/index-view
F11: settings: path of memos, max. nr. of memos (6-99), small size (150x130)
F12: save&exit


3.3.13. Game
-------------

Instructions: Clear the table. Remove the tiles by clicking the left mouse
button, however you can only remove at least two of the same tiles (above/under/
left/right). The more tiles you can remove at one time (they'll be highlighted
when you move the mouspointer to them) the more points you'll get. F1-Help
says (n-2)^2. If you remove one tiles-type completely (house/frog/orange/bird/
rose) you'll get bonus points. I cleared the table two times now with about
3100 points each.
F5: new game
F6: undo move (-10 points)
F7: show points for this game and highscore
F8: "magic" (-100 points). Place this to a tile where you want a new one and
press the mouse button. Maybe it was good, maybe it was bad. I think it's
only useful if you've cleared the table except a few ones and want a entry
in the highscore. Otherwise the risk&cost is too high...
F11: set sound on/off


3.3.14. Personal
-----------------

This is your private area. First you have to define a password. Then you
can input your private data: Name, blood (A/B/AB/0), birthday (year-m-d),
secret, RH (blood/rhesus, + or -),secret, phone & address1, phone&address2,
fax, mobile phone number, EMail
F8 scrolls to the next view: insurance card,day of issue,driving license,
vailid until,passport,valid until; card name, number, validity, (contact
address when lost?)
F8 again scrolls to the last view: holiday/memorial day, memo(randum), secret

F3: abort
F4: save
F5: set/change password

The birthday you enter here is used by the secretary (F10 from the main
menu) to calculate your biorhythm.


3.3.15. DOS
------------

Opens a DOS-Box. It seems that it is not possible to get the alarm of a
schedule-entry if you started a dos-programm or exit personaware.
Enter "exit" to return to personaware.

3.3.16. Power MGT
------------------

Starts the PS2-programme with its user interface. This can only be used within
the japanese dos-environment. You can adjust here much more than with the
command-line options of PS2. For example you could define here the low/med/
high-power-modes, it seems you could enter lcd&power timeout, and of course
you can set everything else you could do from the commandline. I've not
checked out yet how to spin-down the harddisk however. The small icon on the
F12-key-label looks like it would spin down the HD too, but it seems to do
nothing.


=============================================================================
= 4. Other software supplied on disks and/or harddisk (YDW-Model)
=============================================================================

4.1. The English/Japanese IBM DOS J7.0/V
-----------------------------------------

You can use the supplied DOS in english mode without problems. Even in japanese
mode the commands are still in english. Some supplied programms may only work
in japanese mode however.


4.2. CoSession (host-programme)
---------------------------------

This is one of the programs which works only in japanese DOS-mode ;-). It's a
TSR to receive data calls, I don't know if it also checks for FAX or VOICE
calls... it's totally useless for non-japanese reading user I fear..


4.3. tvcc (converts wav<>tvc for voice-features of the internal modem)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

You can find this prg. on one of the disks, it converts .wav <-> .tvc files.
.tvc seems to be the file-format which uses the internal modem with its
voice modes. In the directory of tvcc there's also a large text-file which
describes all AT-voice-commands of the modem; all in japanese, but you could
read and test the AT-commands.


4.4. PS2 (configures the PC110)
---------------------------------

This is a prg. to configure the PC110. Type "ps2 ?" from DOS for its command-
line-options or "ps2" for its user interface, but this is only useable from
an japanese dos-environment. I think the command-line-options are easy to
understand (hey, it's really in english ;) ) - however there would be many
more options in the user-interface, where you could define timeouts for the
low/med/high-power modes and some more settings ...
Type "ps2 _@???" and you'll get the "hacker" options of PS2:

>> Usage : PS2 _@Keyboard Device Auto | Both
Auto=Use internal _or_ external keyboard; both=Use _both_ keyboards

>> Usage : PS2 _@Keyboard Response Normal | Long
>> Usage : PS2 _@Token ring 4Mbps | 16Mbps
>> Usage : PS2 _@DEFAULT
>> Usage : PS2 _@CMOS [OR | AND | XOR] [XXH[=YYH]] (XX=Index, YY=Data)
>> Usage : PS2 _@BATTery Standard | Other
>> Usage : PS2 _@STATus Auto | Time | Battery
What the LCD should display .. (You can also toggle this with FN+B, see
"2.3. keyboard and special FN-keystrokes".)

>> Usage : PS2 _@OFF
>> Usage : PS2 _@COMB RS232 | IRda | MIDI | ASK
>> Usage : PS2 _@LPT BI | UNI | ECP | EPP
OK, you can change the LPT to "EPP", but don't hope that your parallel ZIP will
work with EPP too - it doesn't! It works with 'bi-directional' and won't get
more than ~100k/s :-(

>> Usage : PS2 _@ATA Primary | Secondary
>> Usage : PS2 _@IRQClear Disable | Enable
>> Usage : PS2 _@PCIC Disable | Enable
>> Usage : PS2 _@PCCD3v Disable | Enable
>> Usage : PS2 _@FDDPM Disable | Enable
>> Usage : PS2 _@FNkey NO[=YYH] (NO=Number, YY=Code)

Anyone has an idea what IRQCLEAR, PCIC, PCCD3v and FNkey does or why someone
may use it? => EMail me please ;-)


4.5. The Japanese Windows 3.1J
-------------------------------

On the HD of the YDW-model there's an japanese Win3.1 - I'd say: forget it,
however you might have to copy some of the drivers to your win3.1 installation!
(At least I had to, for example the display drivers and some other)


4.6. TranXit (IR-Software for Windows)
----------------------------------------

Also on the HD. Can be started from non-japanese Win, however you cannot read
anything :) It's too complex and japanese for any serious usage for us
non-japanese I think...


4.7. EasyFax-Lite (Fax-Software for Windows)
----------------------------------------------

Same as above. I suggest you to use e.g. WinFax-lite/light which is also free
available. "Generic class2" as modem works well.


4.8. Other small programmes (inkdrv, lrgptr, ..)
-------------------------------------------------

INKDRV : This is the driver for the memopad. You have to load it if you want to
draw on it, this is already done in the original autoexec.bat.
HP2PW : Found on the personaware-disk in directory \omake\. It seems you can
convert data-files (address/schedule..) from HP-palmtops to the
personaware format.
LRGPTR: A tool for windows to make the mouse pointer bigger.


4.9. driver (PCMCIA/..., used in config.sys or windows)
--------------------------------------------------------

>From the config.sys of the internal flash....:
\dos\$font.sys - a small driver to use japanese fonts. This is the only
driver you have to load if you want to use personaware from
your non-japanese DOS.
\dos\$disp.sys - japanese dos-screen-mode. PS/2 needs this I think, however
non-japanese dos-programms have problems.
\dos\$ias.sys - I don't know, the japanese output prints some "EMS" and
"UMB", but what it does...?!
\dos\power.exe - power manager (english)
\ezplay\ssdpcic1.sys - DOS PCMCIA socket services 2.1
Special command switches: /NC0=1 and /NC0=2 to disable
one of the both PCMCIA-slots for the pcmcia-drivers.
\ezplay\ibmdoscs.sys - DOS PCMCIA Card services driver 2.10
\ezplay\rmudosat.sys - ???
\ezplay\icpmdos.sys - PC card power management driver
\ezplay\pawatas.sys - PCMCIA-ATA/SRAM device driver
\ezplay\autodrv.sys - PC card auto configurator


=============================================================================
= 5. HowTo ...
=============================================================================

5.1. install an other (english/national) DOS-Version
-----------------------------------------------------

For example you can do this by booting off a disk with your dos-version and
install it to your PCMCIA-harddisk with the sys- or format-command. There are
many ways and it's always the same on every dos-compatible ;). You should
have a look at the drivers-sections of this FAQ...


5.2. install windows 3.1 (english/national)
--------------------------------------------

Same as above, however I suggest you to copy your win from your other PC
(if you have one), compare win.ini and system.ini with the japanese win
and copy some needed files from the system-directory of the japanese win
back to yours and change the win.ini/system.ini. If you don't have the
HD-model, you might have got some disks with special win-drivers for display
and/or soundcard.


5.3. install windows 95 (english/national)
-------------------------------------------

>From Amandas WWW-homepage:
-->
Hints for Windows / Windows 95 Users

The PC110's screen uses a Chips & Tech SVGA controller
chipset. Win95 will automatically detect this and install an
appropriate driver--you can switch from 640x480x16
(default resolution) to 640x480x256 in the Display control
panel.
Win95 will auto-detect an ESS488 AudioDrive sound
card, but it won't work. Remove the driver and install the
SoundBlaster driver. For Windows 3.1, use "SoundBlaster
1.5". Haven't gotten the FM music part working under 95
yet, but the rest of it works nicely.
Do not try to install either the PC-DOS PCMCIA drivers
or the Win95 32-bit drivers. Life gets very complicated,
and the only power management feature you lose is hard
drive spindown. I'm still experimenting with this. More
news as it happens.
The internal modem autodetects as a "Standard Modem"
and supports data at 2400bps, fax at 9600bps. Works great
with both Microsoft Fax and dialup networking, even if it is
a bit slow.
Haven't figured out how to tell Windows to use the JP
keyboard layout, so touch typists will have an advantage
with some of the symbol keys.
<--

Look also to "6.5. Problems, questions and answers to an Win95-installation" !


5.4. install linux (english/national)
--------------------------------------

You don't have to load PCMCIA-driver or take a PCMCIA-kernal if you want
to use the HD only. It's a bit tricky to install lilo if you want be able to
boot (dos) off the internal flash (wihout the HD) and to boot dos/linux from
the HD. I suggest you to use "loadlin", this is much easier.
For X11 you have to take the SVGA-display-driver. From a message from
Vaughan Pratt:
-->
X-windows (XFree86) was very easy to configure. I linked /var/X11R6/bin/X
to /usr/X11/bin/XF86_SVGA, and copied /usr/X11/lib/X11/XF86Config.eg to
/etc/XF86Config, with some minor changes: uncomment the four FontPath
entries and Emulate3Buttons, replace "Microsoft" and "/dev/mouse" with
"PS/2" and "/dev/psaux", and add

Chipset "ct65530"
VideoRam 512

to the generic svga device entry. (The actual chip is a 65535, which
XFree86 doesn't know about, anyone know what it adds to the 65530?)
Works like a charm.
<--

It's also possible to use 800x600x256 on an external (multisync) monitor
with linux, just have a look at the mode-entries and modedb-file.


5.5. install other operating systems
-------------------------------------

There should be also no problem to install any other OS like OS/2 or GEOS or
any of the emulators for the PC (say, C64, Amiga or Psion-Emulator). You might
have a look at the other "install ...." sections for informations about the
used hardware.


5.6. install new version (v1.01) of the personaware software
-------------------------------------------------------------
You can find an update of personaware on IBMs FTP in the directory:
ftp://ftp.ibm.co.jp/pub/aspc/file/othersw/Personaware/v101/pw101/

Start "pw101.exe a:" with a formatted disk in drive A: and answer "Y" twice.
Then enter the pin-number of your personaware software. This is not the nr.
found on the disk, it's the small number on the right(!) bottom(!) of the
license card. Then it will unpack to your floppy. Begin the update with
"updatepw c:\pw" (or where you have your personaware-software installed).
On the disk still exist a directory "metpml" now. "updatepw" won't install
this (don't know why), so you have to do it by hand. Look at the metpml.txt
file howto install these files.
Some things seems to be better, however, I dislike one fact: In the new
version the application saves the path of the default-file in the .ini-file!
(old: "DataFileName=DEFAULT.ADD" - new: "DataFileName=c:\pw\data\default.add"
This is extremely bad if you want to use personaware when booting off the
flash _and_ booting off the HD, 'cause the flash drive is C: in the first
case and D: in the second! Maybe a "subst d: c:" in the autoexec.bat of
the flash-drive would do the job)

BTW: There exist also some c-sources and includes from personaware:
http://www.ibm.co.jp/pc/software/pwsrc.html


=============================================================================
=6. Questions & Answers (Feel free to mail me your questions and/or answers)
=============================================================================

6.1. Can I run Personaware from an english/national (MS) DOS?
--------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, you can, however you have to load the $font.sys-device in your config.sys
Then you can also run it from within a dos-box of windows. The $font.sys-device
doesn't use much RAM, because the japanese fonts are in the ROM.

6.2. How do I get into the BIOS-Setup?
---------------------------------------
Turn the computer on and press and hold the F1-key. Here you can configure
the serial ports, boot-sequence, test the boards, ...


6.3 SCSI on the PC110 with PCMCIA?
----------------------------------

I bought the "Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460 PCMCIA-to-SCSI-II-Adapter" and here are my
experiences:
- Don't install the supplied "CardWizzard"-Software, it will detect an IBM
but the socketservices won't work.
- You cannot boot off an SCSI HD.
- The SCSI HDs aren't available as BIOS-Drives, that means you need adaptecs
"fdisk"-replacement "afdisk" and cannot use "permanent swap" under WIN3.1 on
a SCSI-HD :-((
- After installing the PCMCIA-Drivers (SCSI-HD&CDROM) I have 0k free UMB and
only 540k (conv.) RAM left. (And I already have disabled drivers for power-
management and some of the IBM-PCMCIA-Drivers (e.g. "pawatas" for ATA-cards).
- Problems with a parallel ZIP-Drive: When I load the device-driver for the
ZIP, I cannot use any Software under Windows that uses "ASPI" (-> adaptecs
windows-tools and twain-scanner-driver). I tried several things, tried
Iomegas SCSI-Driver but I always get "Couldn't initialize ASPI for Windows"
whenever I want to start such a programme then. I'd really like to know why.
However I need my ZIP to exchange programms with my PCMCIA-III-HD as I have
no II->III-Adapter yet, so I won't buy an SCSI-Zip ...

I connected a Seagate 1 GB HD, a Toshiba 4x CDROM and a Mustek FlatBed-Scanner
and after 2 days of config everything works now ;-) (Well, I needed one day
to find the problem with the ASPI-for-windows-and-ZIP-problem and another day
"fight" with this sh** MS-DOS and HD-Partitions ("I don't want to have 10
devices but I also don't want to format with clustersize >4/8k" and so on).
The PC110 boots off the internal flash, loads the PCMCIA-Drivers and that's
it. It could make problems if a programme only wants to install
on drive C: (as this is the small flash :-) ), but that's the programmers
fault... Also the Amiga-Emulator won't work, either because there are only
550k memory left or it's the same problem with the "INT13h"/Bios-drive of
windows permanent swap / virtual memory...

Linux: This is a real problem: There exist kernels with PCMCIA-support, but
none of them seems to boot off a SCSI-HD. So you have to boot linux and load
the PCMCIA-SCSI-driver first to get to a Linux-Partition on the external HD.
It's not a problem if you have a II-III-Adapter and a PCMCIA-HD (or a flash
of course) installed together with the SCSI-adapter, but if not, you only
have the internal 4 MB. No problem to make 2 Partitions here (1-2 MB are
enough for dos as you could use stacker to double the space). You could boot
linux with "loadlin" from the dos-installation and then find a way to make
some 'reassignments' from "/" to your external HD ... (someone ideas/scripts,
please post ;-) )

6.4. What about TV/Video capture with PCMCIA? (Nogatech PCMCIA-cards)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

It works. And it works very well :) I hadn't expected such a good quality
and speed on a 486sx33 and a 640x480x256 color display. (At least if you
have a halv/quarter-size monitor on your windows-screen)
Nogatech says that the VideoCapture-Card is not compatible with IBM Think-
pads. As it works on the PC110 this is another fact that the PC110 doesn't
have the standard IBM-PCMCIA of the bigger IBM's. However, the Win95-version
won't run, 'cause the Win95-PCMCIA-Drivers doesn't seem to work with the
PC110 PCMCIA ... the Win3.1-version works fine however, even with Win95...


6.5. Several problems, questions and answers to an installation of Win95
------------------------------------------------------------------------

There are thousands of ... at least if you have a SCSI-card like me. If not,
there are only some hundreds :-)

a) Q: After a complete installation to a PCMCIA-HD you won't be able to boot
off the internal flash. This is due to the fact that the Win95-Setup
checks all HDs and make only one bootable.
A: One solution would be to make a "SYS x:" where x is the actual drive-
letter of your internal flash. If you don't want to have a win95 boot
here, you should make the SYS-command from a disk with a previous
MS-DOS-Version.

b) Q: What do I have to do after the successfull installation of Win95?
A: - remove the Win95-PCMCIA-Driver. I have not get any to work. This means
also that any (most?) Win95-Software for PCMCIA-cards won't work and
you have to use the win3.1 versions ...
- Com1 is not automatically detected, so you have to install it, then
you can choose to autodetect the internal modem.
- remove the ESS-Audio-Card-Driver and install the Soundblaster ones
- check the hardware section and remove things you don't have (e.g. a
Joystick) and maybe install some other drivers/software ...
- turn the "16 colors" to "256 colors" in the display-settings (you
don't have to, but why not?!)
- configure win95 as you like it...


6.6. Some notes for useing a PCMCIA-HD together with another PCMCIA-card
and a TypeII-III-Adapter.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you want to use a PCMCIA-HD together with another PCMCIA-card, you have
to load the SSDPCIC1.SYS driver with the option /NC0=1 or /NC0=2 to say
which PCMCIA-port shouldn't be used with the driver (Well, you know, the HD
is 'installed' as an IDE-Drive from the BIOS, so we don't need PCMCIA driver
here. In fact, if you won't do it, the PCMCIA-drive will just spin down and
stop to work when you boot off it and it executes the loading of this socket
services driver ....


=============================================================================
= 7. About this FAQ
=============================================================================

7.1. History
-------------
v1.0 / 17. May 96: First release of the FAQ

v1.1 02. July 96: Addendum 1 (Update) to the FAQ v1.0 released

v1.2 / 11. July 96: Second version and release of the FAQ.
New in v1.2 (to v1.0):
2.18. RAM & upgrade
6.3. SCSI on the PC110 with PCMCIA?
Changed in v1.2 (to v1.0):
1.2. Technical specifications
1.3. Pictures and Internet/WWW-Sites with additional informations
1.4. Models and prices
1.5. Availability (or: Where can I buy it?)
2.3. keyboard and special FN-keystrokes
2.10. modem
2.12. headset-connectors
2.14. rechargeable battery (incl. some reports 'how long last ...')
2.16. port-replicator (docking station), its ports and the floppy
4.4. PS2 (configures the PC110)
7.1. History

v1.21 / 25. Aug 96: Some news&changes, not posted to comp.sys.palmtops but
to every user who asked me by email...
New in v1.21 (to v1.2):
6.4. What about TV/Video capture with PCMCIA? (Nogatech PCMCIA-cards)
6.5. Several problems, questions and answers to an installation of Win95
6.6. Some notes for useing a PCMCIA-HD together with another PCMCIA-card
and a TypeII-III-Adapter.
Changed in v1.21 (to v1.2):
1.4. Models and prices
2.18. RAM & upgrade
7.1. History



7.2. Thanks to ..
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I'd like to say thanks to ...

[email protected] (Amanda Walker) for the many, many mails, informations
and hints in comp.sys.palmtops

[email protected] (Vaughan Pratt) for the informations about the
linux-installation

[email protected] (Joe Holloway) He wrote the info about global support
once in a mail in comp.sys.palmtops

[email protected] (David Twede) He wrote me about the new personaware-software.

"JDIC" Japanese-English dictionary programme (Yes, it took often some minutes
to find the "right sign")

. and of course to IBM and Global Support - I wouldn't have this nice little
thing without them ;-)


7.3. How to contact the author
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