Re: Term emulator for the Zoomer?
"Brian Smithson" <brian@piano.grot.starconn.com>
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 94 16:30 PDT
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From: "Brian Smithson" <brian@piano.grot.starconn.com>
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Subject: Re: Term emulator for the Zoomer?
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On Apr 9, 4:17pm, David Lee 303-497-7674 wrote:
> Subject: Term emulator for the Zoomer?
> OK. Explain this to me as if you're talking to a 6 year old.
> I have the zoomer, and the RS-232 serial cable for that teeny
> tiny RS232 port on the side. Duh. How do I download all this fun
> stuff y'all are talking about to my zoomer?
You have two options:
The cheap way: You'll need a cable for that teeny tiny RS232 port. The
connector itself is relatively new and so it's difficult to find in "the usual
places", but you should be able to at least order a cable from Radio Shack or a
Casio dealer. Then you get ZOOMCOM off of the net, put it on your desktop PC,
follow the instructions [I haven't tried ZOOMCOM and so I'm hoping that there
_are_ instructions], and you'll be good to go.
The less cheap way: Buy PalmConnect from a Zoomer dealer or from Palm itself.
It comes with the appropriate cable. Nicer interface, and you get to run some
of the Zoomer apps on your PC.
The software you'll need for the Zoomer end of the upload/download thing is
already included in the Zoomer. You can see them on the File Manager's Connect
menu. There are two items: file linking (which PalmConnect uses) and file
transfer (which ZOOMCOM uses).
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-Brian Smithson
brian@grot.starconn.com