Re: Motorola 'Embarc'

Anthony J Stieber <anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>

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From: Anthony J Stieber <anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
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Subject: Re: Motorola 'Embarc'
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-> From: Billy Tanksley <tanksley@fallbrook.csusm.edu>

-> Does anyone know how good 'Embarc' (Motorola's wireless PCMIA card for the
-> Zoomer) is?  The ads look impressive, but does it work, can it be used to
-> talk to other Zoomers directly, etc.

EMBARC is the name of the service, the card itself is the NewsCard.  A
nearly identical PCMCIA card for the Newton MessagePad called the
MessagingCard is made by Motorola for Apple.  It has been available in
some markets for a few months and apparently works well.  These
devices, and the earlier NewsStream, are nothing more than alphanumeric
pagers that just happen to have a serial port or PCMCIA interface
respectively rather than an LCD and some buttons.  They are strictly
receive only devices, they cannot transmit any more than any other
pager can transmit.  The NewsStream has been on the market for close to
two years.

If you are interested in bidirectional data try a cellular phone with a
modem, the soon to be available CDPD standard, or commercial or amateur
packet radio.

Contacts for various wireless networking systems including alphanumeric
pagers, cellular data, and packet radio are available via anonymous ftp
on the Internet as csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Portables/data.radio.
Archived newsgroup articles are available in the same directory in the
file data.radio.news.  These files are also available via gopher from
the same host using the path "UWM Information/ Computing Services
Division/ Csd4 Public FTP Archive/ Portables/".
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